A new culture of small, local companies could still use the Rust Belt's ingenuity and know-how, and the Rust Belt could use their energy and cachet. If they figured out how to work together, they might change the way things are made ...READ»
The "L Train Notwork," a digital experiment/stunt/art project from the creative agency WeMakeCoolSh.it, launched on NYC subways Monday, allowing commuters to chat and flirt via their devices. Have they invented a whole new marketing channel?READ»
The Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability lab has spent the last two years in the borough listening to people about how to make their neighborhoods better. Now they have a blueprint to take to the rest of the world.READ»
The Internet’s got a cornucopia of tools for organizing the crap we find and want to bookmark online. Too many, really. We collect articles using Instapaper. We store pictures on Flickr. We favor tweets on Twitter. It’s like ...READ»
You read that right: Someone has gone and built a treehouse and a cabin in the concrete bowels of Brooklyn -- in Bushwick, no less, one of the concrete-iest, bowel-iest Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Mind you, the structures aren’t ...READ»
A new guerrilla art project asks the city of New York to give the people access to unused public land, and to create a massive network of urban farms.READ»
Using hydroponics and climate control technology, the farm is serving up hundreds of pounds of super local lettuce to the city's markets on the same day it's harvested.READ»
Every house has some impossible corner, some ill-shaped nook, some domestic no man’s land, where furniture simply does not -- will not -- go. To that end, industrial designer William Lee and Manu Garza of Brooklyn-based et al. ...READ»
The U.S. government is selling off the personal effects of Ted Kaczynski, America’s most notorious technophobe, in an online auction. Goods include the hoodie and the aviator glasses that may or may not be the sweatshirt and the ...READ»
Fluorescent lighting, the Medusa of the illuminated world, has gotten a bright little makeover. But instead of hiding the horrid glare behind deceptive lamp shades -- the strategy of most CFL-hating designers (which is to say all ...READ»
From the street, Steve Burns's new house in Brooklyn looks like one of those studiedly industrial, uber-butch lofts that went up all over New York just before the real estate crash of 2008. Indoors, though, it's something else ...READ»
Nowadays, everyone’s a chef, what with the surfeit of cooking shows and a Williams-Sonoma in every last mall in America. But do you really know your way around the kitchen? Can you identify a rotary grater, say? Or a mandoline? How ...READ»
It’s hard to imagine any inch of New York City that hasn’t been scrutinized, glorified, surveyed, bought, and sold. But only 42 years ago, in 1968, Pratt Institute Professor Jim Hurley discovered three buildings in Brooklyn ...READ»
Dunlin New York’s bags look as if they came straight out of a 19th-century tannery -- all raw leather with copper- and bronze-cast hardware. And now, the Brooklyn-based accessories brand has the shop to match.
Dunlin revamped its ...READ»
The shoe already worn by rock royalty is opening its own recording studio and hosting unsigned artists. But brands are a long way from replacing record labels. READ»
None other than New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called New York's first experience with electronic voting machines--complete with delays, broken equipment, and ill-prepared election workers--"a royal screw-up."READ»
When the subject of cool, innovative brands comes up, it's a dead cert Apple gets a mention in the first five minutes. It's iconic, makes beautiful products, and has a wow factor that most tech companies would give their eye teeth ...READ»
After years of wrangling and two different architecture firms, Bruce Ratner's audacious plan to build a Brooklyn home for the New Jersey Nets clears its last major hurdle.READ»
Cost, access, quality -- the prognosis for American health care may look grim, but innovation is the cure. The medicine of tomorrow is being born today.READ»
Think you have what it takes to help design a miniature golf course? Then get in touch with the organizers of the Putting Lot, a temporary nine-hole course in a Bushwick, Brooklyn dirt lot going up this summer. The Putting Lot's ...READ»
