Friday's Top 50 Design News & Stories
Labels:
Breaking News,
DesignBrief
-
As the line between fine art and design becomes increasingly blurred, Ian Stell stands somewhere in the middle, crafting furniture that is just as much a feat of engineering as it is a work of art. I first stumbled upon the Brooklyn-base...
-
Name: Darren Location: Castro/Dolores Park Heights, San Francisco My partner and I are Los Angeles natives who moved to San Francisco about a year ago. We found a beautiful, one-bedroom apartment with amazing views of downtown and even t...
-
Open-source soft robot bodies! The Glaucus is an adorable ambling robotic quadruped with no rigid guts or internal framework. Like most soft robots, it is moved by alternating pressure within different chambers in the robot's body, flexi...
-
See the world and delight your inner 10-year-old: someone took the time to map every place with a giggle-worthy name on Earth. Sure, there's the classic Lake Titicaca, but also Shafter, California; Spread Eagle, Newfoundland; Bastardo, I...
-
I love when people display trinkets in their home; vignettes of beloved objects tell stories about their owners' history, passions and personalities. An array of objets on a shelf is enough to start a conversation or create a focal point...
-
-
Dutch designer Ineke Hans has created signposts and furniture to complement an art trail that lines a busy motorway in northern Holland (+ slideshow). As part of an attempt to regenerate the area of Provincie Drenthe surrounding the N34 ...
-
Let's talk about roommates. During school and in your twenties, sharing your living spaces (and expenses) with others is par for the course. But fast forward a decade or so and the landscape looks different; people are coupling up, getti...
-
Earlier this week in La Jolla, California, what appeared to be a massive oil spill in the water began creeping towards the beach. However, closer inspection revealed that the inky cloud was not a batch of Exxon-Mobil's finest at all, but...
-
the sculpture is sited in an isolated area as to require its visitors to make the physical effort to get there, in order to enjoy the little piece of paradise. The post alfredo barsuglia sites social pool in remote area of the mojave des...
-
This weekend Julia and I are packing up our little work trip rental home in the Catskills and heading back to Brooklyn. As much as I’ll miss the waterfalls and country breakfast table, it will be nice to come home to our own bed an...
-
In London, you can actually rest on England's rich literary tradition. Britain's National Literacy Trust partnered with public art organization Wild in Art to create BookBenches. The 50 sculptures resembling folded paperbacks and illustr...
-
Barber & Osgerby has been appointed by Transport for London to work on the design of a new Crossrail train.
-
“There’s a sucker born every minute.”
-
Every room in your home (unless you live in a sphere, in which case send us photos stat) is essentially a box, with six sides (or maybe a few more, but you get the idea). Five of those sides — the four walls and the floor — get a ton of ...
-
artist ryan gander’s flyknit puzzle box explores the underlying propositions of NIKE flyknit. The post NIKE flyknit puzzle box by ryan gander (interview) appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine .
-
Pic of the Day #446
-
Summer for many is an exciting time because of berry season. We, for example, have a horribly unkempt yard with an unnavigable thicket. I believe we keep it that way solely for the possibility of shredding our arms and legs to ribbons ...
-
Name: Abigail Ahern , her husband Graham Scott, Mungo the miniature schnauzer, and Maude the Welsh terrier Location: Dalston; London, UK Size: 2,200 square feet Years lived in: 13 years Imagine if Vermeer and Rousseau got to share a canv...
-
The Cubs' can (finally) make its legendary, 100-year-old baseball stadium feel a little less ancient. Ah, baseball, the national pastime beloved for peanuts, crackerjacks, and stadium design disputes. Read Full Story
-
Welcome to the biggest underground trampoline in the world. Actually, if you venture down to Bounce Below, you’ll find not one but three large trampolines housed within a space twice as large (a whopping 300,000 m 3 , fact fans) as Londo...
-
Concept Car of the Week: Cadillac Voyage (1988)
-
Based in the old industrial town of St. Etienne, France, street artist oakoak (previously) relies on a keen sense of observation to create his humorous interventions on walls, streets, and sidewalks. Cracks and crumbling infrastructure b...
-
Does this poster really do justice to the "beautiful game?" FIFA has just unveiled its official poster for the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada--to be the biggest women's event in FIFA history--and the reaction among the sports blogosphe...
-
A round-up of this week’s news in brief.
-
The Barbican has collaborated with arts organization Create to launch Ram Place Fashion market.
-
Uniform has created a print annual for online quarterly cycling title Spin Cycle.
-
LA is big on juicing. You can get green juice at the gym, Whole Foods, farmer's markets, flea markets, countless juice-bars, and even a juice truck. The packaging varies from place to place, from standard plastic cups to branded statemen...
-
We took the day off last Friday in honor of the 4th. This week to make up for it, we’re bringing you a very very simple yet refreshing gin-based cocktail, the Southside, by Raul Zelaya, the person behind the Death to Sour Mix cock...
-
I see great things for you this summer, and many more weeks of travel, fun, and hanging out with friends and family. If you are worried about spreading yourself too thin financially, use these tips to invite others over and not worry the...
-
Does your bathroom have a pedestal sink? I definitely feel your short-on-storage pain . Here's how to make the most of your small bathroom, with examples from our House Tours: READ MORE »
-
I remember being introduced to the concept of robotics in a rousing late-night viewing of A.I. Artificial Intelligence . Understandably, that initial impression had me tensing up as I passed every blonde-haired, blue-eyed pre-teen. Lucki...
-
Wishing you a sweet summer weekend! What are you up to? Mom is here with us, visiting from France, so we're playing tourists around the city and spending some family time. We'll be heading to the beach with Miss Daisy and I'll try to squ...
-
fitting in the palm of one's hand, the device self-learns finger movements and brings dynamic text prediction and correction to each typing experience. The post AirType keyless bluetooth keyboard fits in the palm of your hand appeared fi...
-
Daniel Johnston, design partner at Lippincott, explains what the best design schools have in common and a quality design education should provide -- along with what it can do for job candidates. The post Designing Design Education: What ...
-
The designer tells us about his ambition to ‘inspire others’ and his ‘Work Hard, Be Good’ mantra.
-
Companies invest loads of money to make their brands look flawless, however, even the top brands can't do everything perfectly. Clif Dickens, a graphic designer from Nashville, decided to point out these flaws on his blog, called Honest ...
-
Over the past several months, we’ve witnessed what appears to be a huge shift in terms of decorative motifs in the design community. Many designers, possibly weary of the abstract and Western-centric motifs that have dominated imag...
-
California summer has arrived and in SoCal and we like to spend hot sunny days bronzing at the beach and enjoying fresh pineapple! TATUN Temporary Art Tattoos – especially the pineapple turtle – are a fun way to accessorize this summer. ...
-
A/B testing, also known as split testing, is the method of pitting two versions of a landing page against each other in a battle of conversion. You test to see which version does a better job of leading visitors to one of y...
-
Anagrama recently worked on project for a line of custom-made turbans specifically tailored made for women. T4TURBAN was created by Saudi entrepreneur and fashion designer Rand AlBassam, who's goal was to revolutionize the Middle Easte...
-
Illustrator/designer Greg Pizzoli pulls back the curtain on children's book publishing, a part of the industry where a precious few manage to make it. The post Interview: Greg Pizzoli on Children’s Book Design appeared first on HOW...
-
If you're a manufacturer of writing utensils, but touchscreens are becoming all the rage, what do you design to avoid obsoletion? The obvious answer is a pen with capacitive ability, hence Bic released their Cristal Stylus last year, a r...
-
The RCA will host a retrospective exhibition of the the work of the late photographer John Hedgecoe.
-
Apple has secured a ruling to allow it to register its store layouts as a trademark across the European Union.
-
A London-based consultancy is working on the design of the new crest, proposed for the 2016-17 season.
-
These pieces fold, contort, or roll up to fit houses and apartments the size of a sardine can. The tiny house movement, which prizes small--300 square feet or less--and ingeniously designed homes, isn't just about the size of the space. ...
-
The Design Council is carrying out research on what – in the opinion of designers – makes for a good design client.
-
The Land Rover 2014 is a calendar designed by art director Zeynep Orbay. The 3D topographic map has a different shade for every month of the year and is sure to win over geology and design lovers alike. It’s an ideal desktop calend...
-
Editor’s Note: The following is a modified excerpt from the introduction to Denise Bosler’s course, Better, Faster Type—a fun course filled with creativity exercises to improve your type skills. Register for the course with code DBOSLER ...
