Design

This Pseudo-Mondrian Lego Sculpture Should Be in a Museum

Lego is a perfect medium for abstract art, and this sculpture is an amazing 3D interpretation of 2D Mondrian De Stijl art. Built by Veynom for the L13 BrickPirate contest “The Great Painters,” this build is an homage to Dutch abstract painter, Piet Mondrian. The build utilizes Mondrian’s strong, dominant color codes (a pure palette…

Tech News Tatiana Danger Jul 21

Make Tricky And Beautiful Geometric Patterns In Isometric

iOS has filters and drawing apps up the wazoo, so it can be hard to see the point of new ones. But Isometric allows you to create and manipulate designs and optical illusions that are weirdly compelling. It’s something about starting from a blank screen and building such a dimensional pattern. To make geometric art…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Jul 21

There’s a Beautiful Chair Hiding in Your Washing Machine

You can sit on a washing machine, but that doesn’t make it a chair. A transformation like the one industrial designer Antonina pulled off does make it a chair, though. And there are even DIY instructions so you can try too, if you’re into that sort of thing. As part of a project with the…

Tech News Eric Limer Jul 20

Every Single Photoshop Filter in Two Bewildering Minutes

What could be a better use of Photoshop filters than filtering Photoshop? That’s exactly what Device did in this delightfully meta little Photoshop tribute. Warning: you might want to turn down your volume a bit. The project exists in two distinct parts. First there’s the maniacal video you see above, that shows each Photoshop Cs5…

Tech News Eric Limer Jul 20

What Your Favorite iPhone Apps Might Look Like in iOS 7

iOS 7 is basically going to cure cancer, save the world and figure out which coconut water brand is the best. Or well, probably not. What it will do is put every current iPhone app on notice. The visual changes to iOS 7’s core functionality is so dramatic that it will make every other app…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 19

History’s Greatest Architectural Blunders

When buildings fail, they fail spectacularly—and often, tragically. But failed structures also serve an important purpose: To teach engineering and architecture students what not to do. On Popular Science today, an infographic from the New School of Architecture gives a glimpse of a handful of historical failures, beginning with the Fidenae amphitheater (which collapsed in…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jul 19

A Mechanical Wooden Pencil That Will Never Go Dull

As low-tech as it may be, the pencil has managed to still keep itself relevant—despite the endless graphite-free ways we can communicate these days. That being said, it doesn’t mean it couldn’t use an upgrade, and we love how Tous Les Jours has managed to combine the convenience of a mechanical pencil with the feel…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 19

The Best Guess at How Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Transit Fantasy Might Work

Earlier this week, Elon Muskannounced that he would publish an alpha design for his crazy-sounding “Hyperloop” by August 12. According to Musk, the diagram above is as close as anyone has gotten to figuring out how the super-fast transit technology might work. And it seems bonkers. For those of you who have been out of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jul 19

Ikea Resurrects the Little Table That Inspired Ikea as You Know It

Ikea is coming full circle square. This week, the company announced the return of Lövet, the humble table that inadvertently sparked the flatpack revolution in 1956 when, in a fit of desperation, a young designer chopped off its legs in order to cram it into his car. You see, for its first ten years of…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jul 18

108 Years of Legendary Herman Miller Design in 108 Seconds

How did iconic furniture like the Eames side chair become iconic? What about the Noguchi table, or countless other classic pieces of the modern era? The answer is through the legendary design firm Herman Miller, whose history you can see illustrated in 108 seconds in this short video. These classic designs would have never come…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jul 18

7 Graphics of Earth’s Coolest Phenomena, From Rainbows to Earth Wobble

What’s the oldest tree on Earth? What’s a rainbow? Is the Earth wobbling? It’s fun to ask these questions but trickier to answer them—in simple terms, at least. Luckily, Viennese designer Michæl Paukner has done us all a huge favor by creating these lovely visual explanations. Paukner is a graphic designer by trade, but a…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jul 18

A Rocking Horse Cookie Cutter Is a Sweet and Easy Way For Kids To Help

Kids love to help out in the kitchen when the end product is cakes, pies, or cookies. Though even the simplest of assigned tasks can turn into a kitchen disaster in the blink of an eye, cutting cookies has always been a pretty reliable assignment. Now, it’s even easier for young’ns with this adorable rocking…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 17

After Blowjobs and Pedobear the 2020 Olympic Logos Are Playing It Safe

The 2020 Olympics will be held in either Istanbul, Madrid, or Tokyo, but no matter where they’re held, the logo will be boring. There’s a 66-percent chance the logo is going to be some stupid flower crap. How did this happen? Indecision and fear. Brand New describes the arduous bidding process, which results in countries…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jul 17

This Fossil-Covered Museum Houses Australia’s Largest Dino Collection

Australia’s Outback is a forbidding land, and many of its dinosaur bones remain unexcavated. But in the early 2000s, a small family of cattle ranchers discovered a bone gold mine on their land. They set out to build a structure for their ongoing find—and their sheer enthusiasm convinced a group of architects and contractors to…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jul 17

This Simple Wooden Case Contains an Entire Collapsable Workstation

If you’re always on the move but like to have a real desk to work at, maybe designer Tyrone Stoddart‘s BOXED project is for you: a suitcase that contains an entire collapsable workstation. In fact, contained within this wooden case are enough parts to create four different pieces of furniture: a desk, a coffee table,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jul 17

These Parody Logos of Famous Brands Are More Honest Than the Real Logos

Most company logos usually play it pretty safe: stale stencils or vanilla graphics mixed with a bunch of nothingness to keep uniqueness to a minimum. That’s never fun. But if you get too adventurous, the Internet skewers you. That’s why we’re left with logos and brands that pretty much are all different degrees of the…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 17

A Satellite Dish Chandelier Shines Light on Outmoded Tech

If you’ve finally decided to get rid of your satellite TV in favor of just streaming everything, you’re going to have some unneeded hardware on your hands. Namely a compact dish that can either be repurposed as a bird bath, or this fantastic chandelier if you can round up a few more from around the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 16

It’s Ok To Spend Your Day Staring At the Clock When It Looks This Good

It’s hard to justify wasting an inch of deskspace on a clock when your watch, your phone, your computer, even the coffeemaker can tell you what time it is. But then you lay your eyes upon the O’Clock from Okum Made and realize there’s still a place for traditional time tellers. At least ones that…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 16

The Forgotten History of Baseball’s Most Iconic Objects

The history of baseball equipment—just like the game itself—beats a meandering path, full of eccentric characters and bizarre details. That’s because so many details of the game—from gloves to bats—were left up to the design of the players themselves. Major league salaries might hover above $3 million today, but for a century, professional baseball was…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jul 16

This Emergency Hook Folds Up and Fits In Your Wallet

We’ve all been there: arrive in a grubby public rest room, realise there’s nowhere to hang anything, and be faced by the grim experience of dropping your possessions to the grimy floor. This folding hook could save you from that fate. Designed by Bjorn Bye, the Hook concept is a credit card-sized piece of plastic…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jul 16

This Pseudo-Mondrian Lego Sculpture Should Be in a Museum

Make Tricky And Beautiful Geometric Patterns In Isometric

There’s a Beautiful Chair Hiding in Your Washing Machine

Every Single Photoshop Filter in Two Bewildering Minutes

What Your Favorite iPhone Apps Might Look Like in iOS 7

History’s Greatest Architectural Blunders

A Mechanical Wooden Pencil That Will Never Go Dull

The Best Guess at How Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Transit Fantasy Might Work

Ikea Resurrects the Little Table That Inspired Ikea as You Know It

108 Years of Legendary Herman Miller Design in 108 Seconds

7 Graphics of Earth’s Coolest Phenomena, From Rainbows to Earth Wobble

A Rocking Horse Cookie Cutter Is a Sweet and Easy Way For Kids To Help

After Blowjobs and Pedobear the 2020 Olympic Logos Are Playing It Safe

This Fossil-Covered Museum Houses Australia’s Largest Dino Collection

This Simple Wooden Case Contains an Entire Collapsable Workstation

These Parody Logos of Famous Brands Are More Honest Than the Real Logos

A Satellite Dish Chandelier Shines Light on Outmoded Tech

It’s Ok To Spend Your Day Staring At the Clock When It Looks This Good

The Forgotten History of Baseball’s Most Iconic Objects

This Emergency Hook Folds Up and Fits In Your Wallet

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