Infographic of the Day: How Much Does Your Company's CEO Make? Per Hour? GOOD magazine's contest, with a directive to design the best infographic illustrating CEO salaries, results in a design that highlights the personal and financial sides of the current economy.
Posted Wed Oct 7, 2009
Royal Honors for Starchitect I.M. Pei Cheeky modernist I.M. Pei adds to his list of accolades with Britain's top architecture prize, the Royal Gold Medal.
Posted Wed Oct 7, 2009
Apple Fights Woolworths Over Logo Litigation-happy Apple goes to court again to protect its iconic logo against trademark infringement.
Posted Tue Oct 6, 2009
Infographic of the Day: Ballooning Population Maps Geography seen through the filter of population density.
Posted Tue Oct 6, 2009
NYC Gallery Brings Design to the People Last weekend The Drop: Urban Art Infill took to the streets of Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood with an expo of art and design marketed to the community-at-large.
Posted Mon Oct 5, 2009
Damien Hirst Gets Re-Schooled in Painting Damien Hirst's upcoming show of figurative paintings, compiled over the past three years, signifies a new turn for the provocative British artist.
Posted Fri Oct 2, 2009
Art and Commerce Meet on Buildings' Interactive Media Facades The main strips of Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and Times Square are on the cutting-edge of illuminated media façades--emblazoned with hyper-animated, neon advertising. But there's a parallel movement to harness the technology for stylistic use, that is, for visionary design on the facades of museums or other pubic buildings.
Posted Fri Oct 2, 2009
Infographic of the Day: Reality Check A tongue-in-cheek infographic designed by Susanna Hertrich examines society's reality versus perception.
Posted Fri Oct 2, 2009
Infographic of the Day: Real Time Simulation of Global CO2 Emissions Breathing Earth is a real-time simulation displaying the carbon dioxide emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.
Posted Fri Oct 2, 2009
Tokyo Makes a Sun-Powered Bid for the 2016 Olympics
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The world's largest city throws its hat in the ring for the 2016 Olympics by promoting its green technology and architecture.
Posted Thu Oct 1, 2009
Infographic of the Day: Rethinking Cities with GOOD and IBM GOOD magazine and IBM shine a joint spotlight on eight cities around the world that have changed their urban landscape with the help of novel technologies.
Posted Thu Oct 1, 2009
DIY Breakfast Machine Whips Up Eggs, OJ, and More Public design laboratory Platform 21 unveiled something awfully tasty in Amsterdam this week, a Rube-Goldberg device that harnesses simple mechanics to make (drumroll, please...) breakfast!
Posted Wed Sep 30, 2009
Infographic of the Day: Google's Acquisition Map As Google shops around for new web acquisitions, a visual map of past conquests shows where the company's been before.
Posted Wed Sep 30, 2009
Smell This Tag: Olfactory Street Art Mitchell Heinrich invents a temporary urban graffiti spreading smells, not spray paint.
Posted Tue Sep 29, 2009
Vintage Bohemia: Small Hotels Take On the Dark Side of Interior Design A new book extolling the design trend of the past several years--a recreated, embellished vintage look incorporating brick, iron, wood, velvet, and fur--at last christens a genre of interior design seen from New York to Paris. Dark Nostalgia, by Eva Hagberg for The Monacelli Press, presents 26 projects that play upon the theme: a modern interpretation of an idealized past.
Posted Tue Sep 29, 2009
Living Walls Look Great, But What About Upkeep? Not only effective in reducing energy use, a vertically scaled garden, or living wall injects a shot of green into gray urban streetscapes. Last week we wrote about North America's largest largest living wall, designed by Kari Katzander of Mingo Design with the help of of Green Living™ Technologies. But there are plenty of others.
Posted Tue Sep 29, 2009
Infographic of the Day: How to Name a Baseball Team Designer and baseball enthusiast Craig Robinson lays out the etymology of team names in today's information graphic.
Posted Mon Sep 28, 2009
Beverage Package Designs and the Fashion Shows They Inspire They taste delicious, but how do they look? In a universe of beverage options, packaging helps separate a brand from its competitors.
Posted Mon Sep 28, 2009
Infographic of the Day: Best Films of All Time The best movies of all time, plotted out in a flow chart that interlaces genres.
Posted Mon Sep 28, 2009
The Future of Publishing is... Electric? Meet the world's first electric magazine, issue number 57 of the avant-garde Visionaire.
Posted Fri Sep 25, 2009
