A world without voicemail would be a wonderful world indeed. But that's not going to happen -- and even if it did, we'd lose small pleasures like "Animation Hotline," in which Dustin Grella takes one voicemail each day and turns it ...READ MORE›
For some bizarre reason, I really want to learn how to do letterpress printing. This is an old-school process that requires lots of dirty, heavy, expensive equipment, but creates gorgeously tactile typography and graphics -- you're ...READ MORE›
We hear a lot of design manifestos around here. But Bret Victor's stuck out: He wants to kill math. He's no Luddite, though -- he thinks mathematics is one of the most powerful, transcendent ways humans have for understanding and ...READ MORE›
The blogs have been buzzing about California artist Chris Burden's toy-car megalopolis project, Metropolis II, for ages. The latest news: A collector bought the installation for "millions" of dollars, but was gracious enough to donate ...READ MORE›
Ask a talented illustrator and graphic designer like Edvard Scott who his influences are, and you might expect to hear certain names dropped: Saul Bass, Paul Rand. But Scott doesn't do what you expect. On the top of his current list ...READ MORE›
Science fiction is usually the province of filmmakers and novelists. But designers can get in on the action too, imagining products and services to meet needs that don't quite yet exist, but could soon. Ludwig Zeller has done exactly ...READ MORE›
A live poetry reading is usually an intimate experience, but that doesn't mean it can't be augmented with some high-tech spectacle as well. That's exactly what "creative coder" Andrea Cuius and designer Roland Ellis created for poet ...READ MORE›
Old and busted: iPad apps. New hotness: iPad Smart Cover apps. You read that right: why stick to just the screen when you can design and develop headspinningly innovative experiences that take advantage of the iPad's stylish dust ...READ MORE›
The Four Seasons, a concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, is one of the few pieces of classical music almost anyone can recognize. (Especially if they grew up watching Disney's Fantasia.) But unless you can read music, you'll never see The ...READ MORE›
During a blackout, earthquake, or other scary emergency, aesthetics are likely to be the last thing on your mind. But that doesn't mean they don't still serve an important purpose, as Eton's Turbodyne series of American Red ...READ MORE›
Finding a comfortable place to lay around in between classes and making sure their iPhones are always charged: These are some of the most pressing problems faced by modern college students. Even the mini-geniuses at MIT. Which is why ...READ MORE›
We tend to talk about "the media" as a monolithic force of nature, like mountains or the wind -- but it's a fallible human endeavor, constantly mutating in unpredictable ways. That's the guiding principle of NPR's On the Media, and ...READ MORE›
Interface: what a weird word. But all it really means is "a means of letting you do something." When you come home, you don't "interface with your house," you open the door. When you want to curl up with a novel, you don't "access ...READ MORE›
"Apps are bullshit" may sound like a weird slogan to raise venture capital with, but that's exactly what Jason Baptiste did (and continues to do) as he builds his startup company, OnSwipe. ("We're making T-shirts," he tells ...READ MORE›
New York bike thieves don't play. They have Mission: Impossible-level skills and enough balls to steal your wheels in broad daylight... while being filmed. So when Savannah College of Art and Design student Jaryn Miller was told to ...READ MORE›
Those ubiquitous QR codes may get all the trendy tech love these days, but the humbler Universal Product Code -- or barcode, as it's better known -- has some creative life left in it yet. An iPhone app called Barcodas turns any UPC ...READ MORE›
Braun doesn't just make beard trimmers and juicers; they were once also known for making ridiculously stylish watches by Dieter Rams and others. Now, after years of absence, Braun is relaunching a line of wristwear -- designed by ...READ MORE›
Here's one thing that often gets lost in the shuffle when debating the sexier points of green transportation: the simplest way to make a car, plane, whathaveyou more eco-friendly is just to make the whole damn thing lighter. All well ...READ MORE›
If the noise-musical "Stomp" were reimagined with Doris Day household appliances instead of trashcan-soled stage performers, it might sound something like "The Stupid Orchestra," a self-deprecatingly named installation by Michael ...READ MORE›
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