Design

Egypt Is Building a New Pyramid

Egypt, a country in the grips of a severe housing crisis, announced a glitzy new development this week—and it’s a throwback either to Vegas or to ancient Egypt. Or maybe a little bit of both. The Cairo Post reports on a new development called the Zayed Crystal Spark: A 656-foot-tall glass pyramid surrounded by a…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Mar 6

Fantastic Redesigns Of Women Characters By Women Science Fiction Artists

What do women want in their women characters? Art director and Muddy Colors columnist Lauren Panepinto addresses sexism in art and what she wants creators to think about when developing female characters. Even better, she shares redesigns of popular female characters done by female science fiction and fantasy artists. Before we begin, I would like…

Books & Comics Lauren Panepinto — Muddy Colors Mar 5

Classic Pokémon, Re-Imagined As Modern Day Company Brands

We’ve seen the Houses Great and Small of Game of Thrones become modern-day companies, but now it’s the turn of classic Gen-1 Pokémon to get the slick modern logo treatment by design company Pictogram. Pictogram designer Sebastiaan de With actually goes a step further than just taking some of the first 151 Pokémon and turning…

Tech News James Whitbrook Mar 2

The Craziest Designs For London’s Newest Pedestrian Bridge

The great city of London currently has something of a fascination with pedestrian bridges to span the waterway that bisects the city. The latest project is for a bridge that will connect Nine Elms to Pimlico in the Borough of Wandsworth. Currently, 87 proposals have been submitted: here are the craziest. https://gizmodo.com/londons-crazy-stupid-garden-bridge-is-actually-going-ah-1665980312 At the moment,…

Tech News Chris Mills Feb 28

Soon, You’ll Be Able to Build Your Own Moto 360 Smartwatch

People want their smartwatches to be fashion statements. And some have gone to extreme measures—including one enterprising, sandpaper-equipped individual—to make them uniquely their own. Now, Motorola is making it way easier to build your own Moto 360 smartwatch—no sandpaper required. Moto Maker, the online customization tool previously reserved only for the Moto X smartphone, will…

Tech News Darren Orf Feb 26

This House Was Designed Around the Rock that Almost Killed Its Owners

Sometimes a disaster becomes a feature. This is an actual home in Fountain City, Wisconsin, which was almost crushed by the very rock that is now its most intriguing architectural detail. Photo via Travel Wisconsin Over on Atlas Obscura, Eric Grundhauser explains: The home sat at the base of a steep hillside and on April…

Tech News Annalee Newitz Feb 24

The Eiffel Tower Is Generating Power With a Hidden Wind Farm On Its Legs

Paris hasn’t been shy about slapping on sexxxy new attractions to the 127-year-old Eiffel Tower over the past few years—what with the glittering lights and glass floors. But the latest addition is designed to be neither seen or heard. If you look closely at the cross-bracing of the tower this month, you might see them:…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Feb 24

The Horrible Reality of Tiny Houses, Revealed By Portlandia

Aww, tiny houses! Tiny apartments. Micro-living. So cute! And green! What could go wrong!? A clip from this week’s forthcoming episode of Portlandia explores the realities of micro-living: Your loved one’s hybrid toilet/work desk. Your cat’s fold-up litter box. The perils of handling knives in tiny spaces. The full episode airs on Thursday, but check…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Feb 24

This Crazy Geodesic Dome Is Actually a Power Plant

Biomass cogeneration doesn’t scream “family fun for all ages” to most of us, but the city of Uppsala, Sweden, is hoping it might some day. Its plan involves a geodesic dome, stained glass, and a zany Danish architect. Last year, the city invited the architect Bjarke Ingels to design a new power plant that will…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Feb 23

A Clever Push Pin Doesn’t Make Holes

Push pins and a corkboard are the most basic organisational tool around, but they kinda suck for photos — in order to stick them up, you stab a tiny hole through your grandma’s face. This neat alternative tries to solve that. Pon is a Kickstarter project that basically marries a paperclip to a thumbtack, meaning…

Tech News Chris Mills Feb 21

Superhero Shoe Horns Can Only Save Your Sneakers

There are two ways to avoid having to keep tying and untying your shoes whenever you go out: You can switch to the garish monstrosity that is velcro and just put up with that wretched tearing noise, or you can keep a shoe horn on hand to make it easy to slip in and out…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 20

This Periodic Table Quilt Was Made by a Robot

When he’s not busy with his job as co-founder of Wolfram Research, Theodore Gray makes a lot of incredible things. Sometimes they have to do with metal and fire. But fairly regularly, he uses a robot to make a quilt. And this is the quilt which rules them all. You can see more of Gray’s…

Tech News Annalee Newitz Feb 19

This Optical Illusion Bar Stool Is Entirely Real

From the right angle, Josh Carmody’s Legless Bar Stool looks like it’s one leg shy of safely resisting the pull of gravity. But it’s just an optical illusion made possible by some clever woodworking, and in reality it has all the legs necessary to remain upright. The stool’s unique form factor isn’t just eye-catching, though,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 18

How Disasters, Emergencies, and Survivalism Are Shaping Home Design

You peer warily out of the single window in your zombie-proof steel box. The street seems deserted—except for a lone figure who is staring at you from a distance. Is it 2079, in the years after the Great Drought Plague!? No, it’s 2015 in Royal Oak, Michigan, and that zombie is a curious local Fox…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Feb 18

How One Fed-Up Dude Fixed an Awful Highway Sign Himself

At some point in your life you’ve probably encountered a problem in the built world where the fix was obvious to you. Maybe a door that opened the wrong way, or poorly painted marker on the road. Mostly, when we see these things, we grumble on the inside, and then do nothing. But not Richard…

Tech News Roman Mars - 99% Invisible Feb 17

This Weird App Gave Us an Amazing Video

Pegas is a Romanian company that makes bikes. And they have a new app that lets you sample colors from the city landscape, and find a paint match to use on your Pegas City Bike. It’s a weird idea, but the result is this diverting video about what it’s like to bicycle in Bucharest. Which…

Tech News Annalee Newitz Feb 17

Get Trippy on Poker Night With These Glitch Playing Cards

Boy do I love fancy playing cards. Not only do they make playing cards more fun. They also make you want to play cards more often—which is generally healthy, so long as you don’t struggle with a gambling edition. My favorite card game is spades, and boy would that be fun with a trippy deck…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Feb 16

The Gorgeous Typeface That Drove Men Mad and Sparked a 100-Year Mystery

No one seemed to notice him: A dark figure who often came to stand at the edge of London’s Hammersmith Bridge on nights in 1916. No one seemed to notice, either, that during his visits he was dropping something into the River Thames. Something heavy. Over the course of more than a hundred illicit nightly…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Feb 16

Inside Ikea’s Globe-Spanning Project to Make Solid Wood Furniture

Ikea is one of the largest furniture company on Earth. It’s one of the largest companies on Earth. When a company this big decides to make even a slight change to how it makes or sources its products, it’s a massive undertaking. That’s exactly what Ikea is doing right now—and I got an inside look…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Feb 16

These Concept Notes Make Money So Beautiful

U.S. currency does change from time to time, but the basic design — green/black background, a portrait on one side, and a pretty picture on the other — has stayed boring for decades. These concept designs for currency, though, are anything but boring. Designer Barbara Bernát designed these notes for the Hungarian Euro as part…

Tech News Chris Mills Feb 14

Egypt Is Building a New Pyramid

Fantastic Redesigns Of Women Characters By Women Science Fiction Artists

Classic Pokémon, Re-Imagined As Modern Day Company Brands

The Craziest Designs For London’s Newest Pedestrian Bridge

Soon, You’ll Be Able to Build Your Own Moto 360 Smartwatch

This House Was Designed Around the Rock that Almost Killed Its Owners

The Eiffel Tower Is Generating Power With a Hidden Wind Farm On Its Legs

The Horrible Reality of Tiny Houses, Revealed By Portlandia

This Crazy Geodesic Dome Is Actually a Power Plant

A Clever Push Pin Doesn’t Make Holes

Superhero Shoe Horns Can Only Save Your Sneakers

This Periodic Table Quilt Was Made by a Robot

This Optical Illusion Bar Stool Is Entirely Real

How Disasters, Emergencies, and Survivalism Are Shaping Home Design

How One Fed-Up Dude Fixed an Awful Highway Sign Himself

This Weird App Gave Us an Amazing Video

Get Trippy on Poker Night With These Glitch Playing Cards

The Gorgeous Typeface That Drove Men Mad and Sparked a 100-Year Mystery

Inside Ikea’s Globe-Spanning Project to Make Solid Wood Furniture

These Concept Notes Make Money So Beautiful

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