If the film's half as alluring as the trailer, we might whip off our shirts and go buck wild, too. But the teaser isn't just about shiny effects--and chests. Here's a look at the geeky heritage behind the well-toned new Martian movie.READ MORE›
Scientists working on breakthroughs that will help save the planet are going back to the source. By looking at the way the planet manages resources, we can find better ways to manage ours.READ MORE›
Saul Bass. Before I ever met him, before we worked together, he was a legend in my eyes. His designs, for film titles and company logos and record albums and posters, defined an era. In essence, they found and distilled the poetry of ...READ MORE›
Architecture of Fear is the title and subject of an intriguing new exhibit at Z33, a contemporary art space in Hasselt, Belgium--fear now being something we’ve politicized and commodified and generally made into a global way of ...READ MORE›
Obscura Digital, the creative tech agency behind this crazy live-action data visualization and this (even crazier) animated building facade, has unveiled surprisingly un-crazy headquarters in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood. ...READ MORE›
The lovable oddball Buckminster Fuller has inspired everything from surf mobiles to ice cream sandwiches. And now this: a faceted magazine cover that looks and feels like a flattened geodesic dome.
pull wrote:“The first ...READ MORE›
“Pharma,” an exhibition of pharmaceutical-focused graphic design that opened at the Herb Lubalin Study Center at Cooper Union on November 1, traces this evolution of visual trends using more than 60 pieces, some from as far back ...READ MORE›
What is good design? It’s a question that comes up regularly, either implicitly or overtly, when assessing an object. By and large, we look for examples of function and beauty. (If we considered criteria like sustainability and long ...READ MORE›
In terms of two-wheeled transportation, the e-bike has a reputation only slightly less lame than the three-wheeled motorcycle. But that didn’t stop IDEO and Paul Sadoff--well, it almost stopped Sadoff, who was less than enthusiastic ...READ MORE›
For the 175th anniversary of the Bristol Zoo, 60 artists were commissioned to create life-size gorilla sculptures that were installed around the English city this past summer. For one of them, the Bristol-based design studio 375 came ...READ MORE›
Last month, residents of (and visitors to) Melbourne’s Federation Square were invited to crawl through a vast network of semi-transparent tubes suspended nearly 20 feet in the air. If that sounds like a carnival ride you’d rather ...READ MORE›
Ariana Page Russell isn’t the first artist to use her own flesh as a canvas, but she’s probably the first to do it without having to swallow a bottle of painkillers first.
Russell has an autoimmune disorder called dermatographic ...READ MORE›
French artist Arnaud Lapierre has unveiled an eye-popping new outdoor installation at the 18th-century Place Vendôme in Paris. Lapierre took the plaza’s Vendôme column, a vaulting bronze obelisk from the Napoleonic era, and set ...READ MORE›
If you’re an insurance company trying to come up with a memorable branding strategy, you can go the gecko route and get cute, or you can do what the Dublin-based insurance giant XL did: As a company that claims to be “risk ...READ MORE›
Digital technology has enabled designers to get their ideas into the world relatively cheaply and quickly. Now, in order to showcase the myriad possibilities of laser-cutting, the Dutch digital-manufacturing company Snijlab has ...READ MORE›
Objects in Disguise is a collection of vaguely embarrassing gentlemen’s effects disguised to look like something more socially acceptable. A walking cane masquerades as an umbrella. A handheld mirror appears as a pocket watch. And ...READ MORE›
Although the spaceship-worthy, glass-blown architecture for the exhibition “Escape into the Upper Air” is strictly imaginary, the London based Spanish designers Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo, gknown as El Ultimo Grito, have ...READ MORE›
Here’s something that oughta come in handy now that Occupy Wall Street has officially transformed into Occupy Everywhere: a toolkit for making your own protest signs that covers an indiscriminate raft of causes--and in multiple ...READ MORE›
Death isn’t pretty. But some designers have at least managed to give it a romantic sheen, offering alternatives to a hulking casket or gaudy urn. I was particularly struck by design student Margaux Ruyant’s Poetree, a funeral urn ...READ MORE›
Bikes can be a fine way to travel shortish distances--except when you’re hauling a lot of stuff. Take it from someone who doesn’t leave the house without a bag the size of a large carry-on. Yves Béhar’s Fuseproject to the ...READ MORE›
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