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Infographic Eye Candy: Nikes That Mark Your Marathon Progress

Designer Michael Robinson points out the we can now collect all sorts of data while we run, thanks to pedometers and heart-rate monitors. But we don't usually make that data public.So he designed a pair of Nike marathon spikes with 26 ...READ»

Robotic Night Writers Are Coming to London

Outrace is a sextet of robotic arms, the kind you normally find in car plants the world over, that will be controlled by members of the public to draw light sculptures in the air around Trafalgar Square, using specially-developed ...READ»

Best of Show: The London Design Festival

For design, fall is the season of ideas.The Milan Furniture Fair, held every April, is essentially an organ of the Italian furniture industry. Walking the fairgrounds on the city outskirts, one gets the sense that a thousand suits are ...READ»

Which Way Design: Seven Telling Events for the Fall

As surely as weighty new catalogues from Design Within Reach and Ikea land with a thump at your door, the fall design season awaits on the far side of Labor Day. This is the customary moment for design editors to preview fall events. ...READ»