Topic: Metropolis

Babelgum Actually -- gasps -- Pays for Users to Create Videos

Ambitious long-form programming -- with a Sundance vibe.READ»

Why Do Most Designer Toys Suck So Badly?

Design critic Alexandra Lange goes shopping for the perfect kids toy--and finds so much design falls short.READ»

Pantone Expands From Color Services to Hotels (With Rooms to Dye For)

Pantone has been aggressively pursuing a new line of business: Product licensing, which culminates today in a new Pantone Hotel.READ»

ICFF: The Best Branding Behind the Brands

99 percent of people on the planet would see ICFF as 145,000 square feet of "unnecessary." However, for the remaining one percent, it's an annual bazaar of the new and notable from the commercial and domestic landscapes that is not to be missed. READ»

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Printable Brick Could Cut World's Carbon Emissions by "At Least" 800 Million Tons a Year [UPDATED]

The brick, made of sand, bacteria, and urea, has won Metropolis's 2010 Next Generation award.READ»

Want a Sustainable Dreamhome Design, for Free? Vote Now

FreeGreen, which distributes free blueprints for sustainable houses, is letting the public help choose the next design it will offer. That's not just a marketing gimmick--it gets to the core of their business model.READ»

Skagen watches was founded by Henrik and Metropolis Jorst

If you have never heard of Skagen women watches. it is about opening that you do. These indefinite ornaments of the form calendar grind have been hanging under the radiolocation for some coming-out. Still, opposite they're more ...READ»

The 9-Minute History of Charlotte, NC, in an Animated Pop-Up Map

Rob Carter's Metropolis is a video pop-up book for urban history nerds. Or a history lesson for pop-up book nerds.READ»

Leave No Trace: Boy Scouts Get Shipping-Container Cabins in California

Gensler's new low-impact cabins do away with the dust and grime of old-time designs.READ»

NFL repelling jerseys are just an article

Archangel Vick unsightly woolly isn't a verbalize that many would retain calculating. Nevertheless a Archangel Vick horrid milker is a brain inference to NFL jersey marketers, nonetheless. The Archangel Vick Eagles milker is leisurely ...READ»

Rafael Viñoly's Designer Rx for Hospitals

How do you design a building hosting so many social interactions and so much technological change?READ»

Apple Exec's Backyard Is Designed for Barfing

An Apple exec's avant-garde housing experiment.READ»

St. Louis Gets Its High Line: Citygarden Sculpture Park

Like the transformative park in New York, a new sculpture garden in St. Louis brings radical revitalization to a part of a city that needs it.READ»

Li Ning and Ziba Design Want to Build China’s First Truly Global Brand

You may think you've never heard of Li Ning. But assuming you were one of the 4 billion or so people watching the opening ceremony of last year's Beijing Olympics, you've seen him.READ»

Brad Pitt's Foundation Unveils 14 Home Designs for New Orleans

Pitt's foundation, Make it Right, eventually hopes to build 150 houses in the Ninth Ward--completely remaking the blighted neighborhood.READ»

A Second Act for Second Life, as an Urban Planning Tool

Second Life's passe right? Maybe not. Two MacArthur-grant geniuses use it to help average citizens design their own communities.READ»

Is Google Terminator's SkyNet?

Is Google SkyNet? In a word: Yes. In fact, in some ways, it's even smarter. SkyNet didn't assume worldwide domination until 2029, while Google has already effectively monopolized search and it's only 2009. Sure, one uses a giant Web ...READ»

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ICFF's Best New Designers Hail From...Milwaukee?!

At ICFF 2009, Misewell made an extraordinarily polished debut with its very first furniture collection--and the furniture design company just won the New Designer award, judged by the ICFF Editors committee, which included ...READ»

The Power Palette of the Economic Collapse

Applying design forensics to the boom years: Will drab black and gray be remembered as minimum-security rather than minimalism?READ»

A Tricycle for Disabled Kids

In 2007, Shabtai Hirshberg, an Israeli design student, was shocked to see how kids with disabilities were deprived of the simple pleasure of pedaling around on a tricycle. As Metropolis writes: Hirshberg saw a boy on crutches ...READ»

My Q & A Interview With Born Rich

As an advertising creative and a blogger with a growing audience, I answer questions about social media, advertising and how to build a brand.READ»

Gucci taps major talent for new ad campaigns

We can't say that we've tried Gucci by Gucci, the new fragrance by the Italian fashion mainstay.  But, this much we can say: Gucci has produced two stellar ads for its fragrance campaigns.  For the first ad, Frida Giannini tapped ...READ»

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»

De-Adversify: Part 2 of The 12 Things I've Learned About Business From Living Abroad

I hate to read something like this, about a boy in South Carolina who was punished because he decided to use his broken pencil sharpener. But sometimes this happens. When you can't get the help you need for something, you have ...READ»

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Jesse Frohman He earned a degree in business at the University of Michigan, but Jesse Frohman found his métier when he returned to his native New York to work for the legendary photographer Irving Penn. Since then, he has ...READ»