Jordan Kushins, Author at Gizmodo

100 Fantastic Toy Cars Made By Fun-Loving Modern Designers

Aw, these are wonderful. One hundred different architects and designers have each put their own creative spin on a small wooden car for 100% ToBeUs, a traveling exhibition of super minimal mini-roadsters. Architect Matteo Ragni rounded up a who’s-who of big names to contribute, from the Campana brothers to BarberOsgerby to Matali Crasset to Marcel…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 25

5 Ideas To Improve Air Travel From A Textile Designer

Griping about air travel is about as fresh as in-flight coffee, but there are a ton of ways to tweak the details and make flying genuinely enjoyable. If you could do anything to improve the flying experience, what would it be? We posed this question to a handful of creative folks, and we’ll be sharing…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 25

4 Concepts For The Future Of Healthcare

Healthcare has been making headlines for the past few weeks—less because of a sudden interest in good health and more because of the government’s recent glitch-tastic bummer of a website launch. But the very idea of well-being continues to change in a lot more ways than just the introduction of an online health exchange. Last…

Health Jordan Kushins Nov 25

Listen To 100 White Albums Played At Once

Rutherford Chang is a vinyl collector with a singular focus: The White Album. The New York-based artist has built up an impressive catalog of almost 700 (!) numbered copies of the 1968 double album. Taken together, his findings have become a kind of beautiful exhibition, but Chang has also recorded audio from 100 pressings, and…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 22

12 Ghostly Ads For Forgotten Brands

Despite the sexy that Mad Men brought back to the advertising game, most of us are jaded as hell about being sold to and targeted via infernal viral schemes and clever campaigns. It’s not that ads are anything new, they just used to be… different. https://gizmodo.com/24-of-the-most-beautiful-ads-ever-made-1467575735 For example: A little over a century ago, before…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 22

This Chair Was Made From Artichokes And Cooking Oil

Dinner! Time to tuck into a delicious side-dish of artichokes while sitting comfortably on a chair… made of artichokes? University of Edinbugh grad Spyros Kizis engineered a new material made from artichoke thistle (Cynara cardunculus)—a naturally occurring, resilient crop in his native Greece—mixed together with a bio-resin composed mostly of waste oil from cooking. Together,…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 21

This Stilted Shanghai Office Building is a Bridge Amongst The Trees

China’s grim (and growing) air pollution problems cast some pretty dark shadows on the country’s urban hubs, which often look like they’ve been photographed using a “muddy water” filter. That makes these crisp and sunny pics of the Huaxin Business Center in Shanghai’s Xuhui District all the more surprising. The stilted, four-building complex, designed by…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 20

Digital Fabrication Gone Wild!

Experimentation is a pretty standard part of the creative process, but it usually ends with an “a-ha” moment; once you know what you want to make, the trial and error part of the equation is dunzo. For architect Andrew Kudless, however, R&D is never over; he often pushes his sculptural work so far it accidentally…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 20

You must watch this impossibly awesome Like A Rolling Stone video

It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve heard it—Like a Rolling Stone is a rousing anthem of a musical masterpiece that only seems to get better with age. Its new music video—actually, the first video ever of Like a Rolling Stone—is a masterpiece too. It will blow your mind. The bizarro premise is that you’re…

Sploid Jordan Kushins Nov 19

Thaw Your Chilled Cheeks With This Toasty Outdoor Furniture

Hanging out in the backyard is a lot less appealing when the sun sets midday and the temperature dips down (and down, and down) not long after—sometimes, all the woolly layers in the world just won’t thaw you out. This is the season when it’s fun to hole up in your apartment, layer on the…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 19

Can You Spot The 70-Year-Old Homesteader’s Shack Hiding In The Desert?

At first glance, it’s easy to mistake this clapboard box in the middle of Joshua Tree for a mirage or digital illusion. Artist Philip K. Smith III added mirrored panels to the shack’s exterior, making Lucid Stead seem to hover in the landscape like a processing glitch. At night, when the sun goes down, it…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 19

5 Eye-Popping Designs That Visualize Sound

You unlock this post with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a collection of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. The following designers have each transformed intangible, invisible audio—from orchestral scores to snipping scissors to Presidential…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 19

Remembering The Rusted, Crumbling Piers Of Seaside Britain

Beautiful beaches probably aren’t the first thing that come to mind when thinking of jolly olde England, but seaside resorts have been popular getaways for city-dwellin’ Brits for nearly two centuries. People do still go visit, but the Victorian-era piers that dot the coast have seen some better days. Brighton-based photographer Simon Roberts has spent…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 18

Turning Old TVs and Outdated Computer Screens Into Brand New Tiles

E-waste is an environmental nightmare. What if the overflow of outdated tech junk could be put to better use than landfill fodder? https://gizmodo.com/the-story-of-e-waste-what-happens-to-tech-once-its-tra-5794806 San Jose-based manufacturer Fireclay teamed up with electronics recycler ECS Refining to transform the CRT glass found in old school TVs and computers into tile for the home. The ultra-thick screens have…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 15

Behold, The Smartest Hotplate Ever Invented

We’re elbow-deep in the internet of things, and our home appliances, gawd love ’em, are just going to keep getting smarter. In an effort to streamline the cramped kitchens of bachelor/ette pads everywhere, Frog Design, in collaboration with GE, came up with a concept for the most intelligent damn hotplate you’ve ever seen. EcoSwitch is…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 14

Stinkhole Becomes Super-Pool with a Splash of Pink in Paris

Public pools in disrepair are sad to see and even grosser to go into. Atlas Sports Center was one such rundown, ’70s-era relic in Paris—a grubby stinkhole that had seen better days—but local firm Yoonseux Architectes transformed it into an ultra-modern spot to strip down and do a few laps (if you’re not doing intervals,…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 13

Kinky Geometric Quilt Patterns Are Generated By Computer Code

Most folks have probably never thought about what it would look like if polygons started getting freaky with each other, but Libs Elliott is not most folks. The Toronto-based textile artist merges the tactile appeal of traditional quilts with the modern edge of computer processing to illustrate what happens when a free-spirited set of triangles…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 13

AirBnB’s Redesigned App Makes On-The-Go Hosting Simple And Social

Guests usually get all the glory in the hospitality industry—everything is catered to making their experience absolutely freaking perfect. In AirBnB’s booming hospitality empire, however, it’s hosts who make the world go ’round. Now, the company’s founders have rolled out a handful of new features geared directly toward the folks who put their places up…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 13

Can Good Design Make Even Conspiracy Theories Seem Believable?

Grab your tinfoil hats, sheeple. It’s been fifty years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on that fateful day in Dallas, and it’s still nearly impossible to discuss the event without some mention of conspiracy, cover-ups, government intrigue, multiple shooters, UFO affiliations, and more. Now, the conversation has been given a thoroughly modern twist—as…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 12

4 Musical Masterpieces Played By Industrial Machines

Ever hear a car alarm blaring outside and, in spite of yourself, find that you’re nodding along to the repetitive rhythm? Maybe stepping along the sidewalk in time? Given the right frame of mind, even the most seemingly annoying or atonal noises can be transformed into something strangely mesmerizing. Even dot matrix printers and sewing…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Nov 12

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100 Fantastic Toy Cars Made By Fun-Loving Modern Designers

5 Ideas To Improve Air Travel From A Textile Designer

4 Concepts For The Future Of Healthcare

Listen To 100 White Albums Played At Once

12 Ghostly Ads For Forgotten Brands

This Chair Was Made From Artichokes And Cooking Oil

This Stilted Shanghai Office Building is a Bridge Amongst The Trees

Digital Fabrication Gone Wild!

You must watch this impossibly awesome Like A Rolling Stone video

Thaw Your Chilled Cheeks With This Toasty Outdoor Furniture

Can You Spot The 70-Year-Old Homesteader’s Shack Hiding In The Desert?

5 Eye-Popping Designs That Visualize Sound

Remembering The Rusted, Crumbling Piers Of Seaside Britain

Turning Old TVs and Outdated Computer Screens Into Brand New Tiles

Behold, The Smartest Hotplate Ever Invented

Stinkhole Becomes Super-Pool with a Splash of Pink in Paris

Kinky Geometric Quilt Patterns Are Generated By Computer Code

AirBnB’s Redesigned App Makes On-The-Go Hosting Simple And Social

Can Good Design Make Even Conspiracy Theories Seem Believable?

4 Musical Masterpieces Played By Industrial Machines

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