Design

These Dinner Plates Were Decorated With A Paint-Filled Pendulum

The best aesthetic for pretty much any dish is a pile of delicious food. If you’re a proud member of the clean plate club, however, revealing a purdy pattern beneath your meal is a nice touch at the end of dinner. Dutch designer David Derksen used an acrylic paint-filled pendulum to give his Oscillation series…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Dec 28

These Neon Lights Show The Growth Of Shanghai’s Urban DNA

Shanghai is, unfortunately, seeing record levels of smog lately, but there’s no sign of dull toxic haze in this neon display by artist Lu Xinjian. “City Light” is a glowing part of I Love Shanghai, an exhibition at the local Art Labor gallery; here, pop stylings and primary colors actually show the real-life urban grid—with…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Dec 27

Stonehenge’s New Visitor Center Looks Positively Neolithic

The decrepit old visitor center at Stonehenge has been too small and too old for decades. In fact, it’s been described with typical Brit candor as “disgraceful” and an “embarrassment” to England. Finally, this month, a new, $44 million visitors’ center has opened—here’s a look inside. A lot has changed at Stonehenge since the 1970s,…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Dec 27

Beautiful Light Fixtures Folded From A Single Sheet Of Tyvek

So you can fashion a piece of loose leaf into a paper crane? Snore. Behold the skills of Jiangmei Wu, who turns single sheets of Tyvek into incredibly intricate sculptures that glow from within. Wu’s Folded Light Art is the result of an impressive mix of old and new techniques; she designs patterns using Illustrator…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Dec 25

This Fun Leica Puzzle Started Life as a Flat Plastic Poster

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of its classic camera, the Leica store in Sao Paulo, Brazil commissioned this wonderful puzzle that would be given to important clients throughout the year. The non-functional camera, designed by ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi in Brazil, would be distributed as a full-sized poster with pre-cut parts that could be…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 25

9 Delightful New Takes on the Traditional Yule Log Video

Ah, the crackling wood. The dancing flame. You can almost feel the warmth radiating from your screen. On Christmas Eve, here’s a celebration of the yule log film, and a peek at how nine artists reinterpreted the holiday television tradition. The original yule log video was filmed in 1966 by Fred M. Thrower, an enterprising…

Tech News Alissa Walker Dec 24

The 3D Printer Who Saved Christmas

What we have here is a warm and fuzzy tale of a man and his gadget. Presents forgotten! Christmas Ruined! Not so fast. Armed with a 3D printer, he manages to stave off being shunned by his family for at least one more year. You may remember Doc North as the guy behind the ReAllocate…

Tech News Brent Rose Dec 24

Forget Frosty: Here’s How To Make Your Very Own Urban Igloo

Snowmen are great. Everyone loves a good snowman! But if you’re expecting piles and piles of the white stuff this year, have a ton of free time on your hands, and want to make something truly cool, why not go all-out and construct an urban igloo? Modern Farmer got the inside info on how to…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Dec 24

Turn Any Door into Han Solo Stuck in Carbonite

You know you want this door decal of Han Solo stuck in carbonite. The 32-inch by 80-inch laminated graphic can be attached and reattached to both doors and walls and is specially designed to create that great 3D-like effect. It really does look like Han could climb right out of there, at least in the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 24

This Glass Room Lets You Float Over of One of the Alps’ Highest Peaks

The Aiguille du Midi, or Needle of the South, has been home to the terrifying highest vertical ascent cable car in the world for three decades. But this month, it’s stepping up its scaring-the-wits-out-of-tourists game—with a glass box that hangs over the yawning void next to the peak. Image: Alexis Moro/AP. The installation is called…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Dec 23

How Design Observer Founder William Drenttel Changed the Conversation

Graphic designer William Drenttel died on Saturday, a multifaceted creative who played many roles: a Mad Men-era ad man, a design industry legend, an advocate for social change. But as the founder of Design Observer, the influential design blog launched 10 years ago, Bill irrevocably transformed the way we talk about design. For much of…

Tech News Alissa Walker Dec 23

Here’s What Marketing Could Look Like in 2014

Since 2014 is only a few days away, design aesthetics probably won’t be stunningly different come the new year. So that’s all the more reason to make some predictions! Let’s do this. 2013 was the year of learning that the word “skeuomorphic” was, you know, a word. And then learning what it meant. And then…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Dec 22

Most Beautiful Items: December 13 – 20, 2013

It’s nearly Christmas so everything is beautiful, from the lights decking every inch of your neighborhood to the fact that you’re about to get a little vacation. But we also had plenty of things to show you this week, from our favorite Instagram accounts to a tunnel to the sky in a Manhattan train station,…

Tech News Leslie Horn Dec 20

The Instagram Accounts We Loved This Year

Not every Instagram account is pictures of semi-famous tweens or farm-to-table food. There are some very artful, very niche accounts out there that we adore simply for their aesthetic merits. We’ve compiled a catalog of the ones we follow so you can too. NASA There is nothing not to love about NASA’s Instagram feed. It…

Tech News Leslie Horn Dec 20

Classic Arcade Game Designs Illustrated as a Field Guide

If your recollections of arcade games past are starting to fail you, perhaps you just need the Amusement Field Identification Kit in your life. Illustrated in the style of a traditional field manual, these annotated images—created by Michael Mateyko and Hans Thiessen—detail the design of classic arcade games like Donkey Kong, Pong, Ms. Pac-Man, and…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 20

The Billion-Dollar Megaprojects That Will Transform NYC By 2030

As Michael Bloomberg’s reign comes to a close, our mayor/billionaire underwriter is talking up his next move, which involves teaching other cities to be more like New York. But behind the scenes, he’s also scrambling to push through dozens of building projects that will define his legacy. A few days ago, the mayor announced his…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Dec 19

Unpretentious and Inexpensive Gifts For Designers and Design Fans

Buying a gift for a designer doesn’t have to involve a $200 book or $2,000 chair. In fact, it’s usually better if it doesn’t. Keeping our near-empty wallets in mind, we tapped our friends and co-workers to choose 14 gifts that are witty and useful without being snobbish. If you’ve got any ideas you’d like…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Dec 19

The New Oscars Logo Is Illuminati Catnip

Trying to “fix” the Oscars with branding is a fool’s errand—just you try and put lipstick on a grotesquely excessive, four-hour-long pig. But local creative agency 180LA has done an admirable job, giving the Academy a new look that’s as smart as it is simple. Before and after. The focal point of the job is…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Dec 18

The Evolution of the Water Gun

The modern, multi-coloured plastic water guns are a familiar sight, and you probably wouldn’t be surprised to find out they’ve been around for a while. That said, it might surprise you to learn that records show they likely pre-date the American Civil War, at least in some form or another. Back in 1861, Abraham Lincoln…

Tech News Emily Upton - TodayIFoundOut.com Dec 18

An Accordion Shelf That Grows With Your Knick-Knack Collection

You can forget about allen wrenches and magnets altogether—at least if you’re in the market for a new shelf—because Meike Harde has come up with a pre-assembled storage unit that unfolds like an accordion to accommodate whatever you need to store. https://gizmodo.com/the-ikea-nightmare-is-over-magnetic-flat-pack-furnitur-1484859952 The hinged zig-zag design of the Stockwerk Shelf’s walls allow it to collapse…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 17

These Dinner Plates Were Decorated With A Paint-Filled Pendulum

These Neon Lights Show The Growth Of Shanghai’s Urban DNA

Stonehenge’s New Visitor Center Looks Positively Neolithic

Beautiful Light Fixtures Folded From A Single Sheet Of Tyvek

This Fun Leica Puzzle Started Life as a Flat Plastic Poster

9 Delightful New Takes on the Traditional Yule Log Video

The 3D Printer Who Saved Christmas

Forget Frosty: Here’s How To Make Your Very Own Urban Igloo

Turn Any Door into Han Solo Stuck in Carbonite

This Glass Room Lets You Float Over of One of the Alps’ Highest Peaks

How Design Observer Founder William Drenttel Changed the Conversation

Here’s What Marketing Could Look Like in 2014

Most Beautiful Items: December 13 – 20, 2013

The Instagram Accounts We Loved This Year

Classic Arcade Game Designs Illustrated as a Field Guide

The Billion-Dollar Megaprojects That Will Transform NYC By 2030

Unpretentious and Inexpensive Gifts For Designers and Design Fans

The New Oscars Logo Is Illuminati Catnip

The Evolution of the Water Gun

An Accordion Shelf That Grows With Your Knick-Knack Collection

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