Infographic of the Day: Telling a Dead-beat Client to Shove It, With Pie Charts

A classic email exchange between an ungrateful client, and a put-upon designer.READ»

Ultra-Green Underground Data Center Will Heat Helsinki

Companies like Google and IBM are constantly clamoring to prove that they have energy-efficient data centers, but a new cloud computing hub located in the bedrock below Helsinki's famous Uspenski Cathedral might have them all beat. ...READ»

iPhone App Expands Redbox's Slow-Tech Space in DVD Rental Market

We recently wrote about how Redbox, the cheap and easy video-vending-machine company that's undercutting Blockbuster with its dollar DVDs and rapidly expanding kiosks (21,000, up from 12,000 last year) and creeping up on Netflix ...READ»

Flat-Pack Magic: Ten Amazing Folding Chairs

Seven chairs made of single sheets of plastic, cardboard, and foam--and which take just seconds to assemble.READ»

Kindle Outsells Every Other Product On Amazon (And What That Really Means)

According to a breathless press release, the Kindle ereader is the "#1 bestselling product across all product categories on Amazon." That means it sold more than the iPod Touch. More than the Wii. More than Going Rogue. How? It's ...READ»

Playing House: Two Cool Tools for New York Renters

Two new design-driven collaborations empower New York residents to understand their communities and know their rights.READ»

Bookstore Baksheesh: The Real Estate Deals That Sell Books

The closer a table is to the front of the bookstore, the more expensive the real estate--and each book on each table costs publishers anywhere from $3,000 to $30,000, and even up to $50,000 depending on placement. [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 6]READ»

Twitter Abracadabras Weasley Whereabouts Clock Into Reality

Oh Harry Potter, you may be the stuff of fantasy for kids everywhere but you're not real. Which is why Twitter is more awesome: It's really real, and someone's just used it to make a version of the Weasley family's locator clock. If ...READ»

Cyber Monday: Marketing Myth No More?

It's Cyber Monday--Yay! What's that you say? "Nothing but a marketing myth designed to boost pre-Holiday sales?" And Black Friday is, what, a day when we're genetically predisposed to camping out in a 33-degree wintery mix for a ...READ»

Why Is Your Web Designer Wearing a Blue Hat Today?

To support Web standards, of course.READ»

Now That's a Motorcycle

A U.K. firm resuscitates the beauty of 1960s motorcycle design--with laser etching and screen-printing.READ»

Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Augmented Reality-Boosted Beer Drinking, Via Stella Artois

Probably not good news if you've just fallen off the wagon: Stella Artois has just leaped aboard the augmented reality advertising app bandwagon, and it's almost certainly the way beverage ads will go in the future, mainly through ...READ»

Apocalypse Now: Scenes from the Industrialized Wasteland

Photographer Cédric Delsaux captures images that show the jarring impact of modern industrialization on the planet's landscapes.READ»

Society6 Is Etsy for the Artsy, Crowds Curate

What happens if an art gallery takes away the curator and leaves everything up to the customers?READ»

Dirty Secrets Behind the Contagious Marketing of Clean

Suddenly, you see it everywhere--in airports, hotels, restaurants, and of course, in most public bathrooms. And in a blink, it's been seamlessly integrated into life as an essential everyday item. I'm talking about antibacterial hand gel. And from what I see around me, a lot of people seem to be feeling pretty dirty these days.READ»

Futures Thinking: Scanning the World

Looking for the distant early warnings of tomorrow.READ»

Amazing Door Wows Design Award Judges Before They Even Get Into Houses

At 17 feet high, the door's guts are more complex than a Rube Goldberg machine.READ»

Commuter-Friendly Office on Wheels Puts Bus in Business

Austrian designers cut the Gordian knot, in a solution to traffic nightmares.READ»

Fishing for Design: A Day at the Market With Wolfgang Puck

A day with the culinary genius inspires Joe Duffy to think about food in a completely different way.READ»

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