Co.Design

Fashion startups are already proving a Green New Deal could work

Fashion and manufacturing contributes to about a tenth of the world’s greenhouse gases. But startups are showing their more established counterparts how to build carbon-neutral businesses.

Stained glass gets a sleek, 21st-century update

The new glass panels, by the Bouroullec Brothers, aim to capture the impression of different colors and light in everyday life, using abstract shapes.

Star Wars furniture is here, and you probably can’t afford it

High design, meet the wookie.

Gold hoses and diamond-shaped bird feeders: Luxury fashion is coming for your garden

Swedish startup Garden Glory brings sexy design to the ugliest items in your garden, including hoses, spades, and watering cans.

This is the perfect app for quitting Chrome (without actually quitting it)

Bumpr makes it easy to escape the self-imposed monopoly that stems from accessing the web with any single web browser.

Pizza Hut resurrects its classic logo because it’s awesome

Let’s all get personal pan pizzas and live forever!

Sidewalk Labs reveals the key to its smart city plans: An $80M building factory

The Google sister company plans to build an entire supply chain to support its plan for a mass timber neighborhood—but only if Toronto adopts its plan wholesale.

Want your kids to put their screens down? Here’s how AI could help

NewDealDesign reveals a concept for encouraging children to ditch their screens and explore the world around them, with a little help from object recognition technology.

Google doubles down on its project to teach kids how to spot fake news

YouTube has a reputation for feeding kids inappropriate videos. A digital literacy program from parent company Google hopes to combat it by teaching kids to spot and report it.

Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ mode shows how branding can become a UX risk

It’s vital that we use the right language to describe autonomous tech, suggests a new study on the controversial Tesla feature.

The art of selling scent in the internet age

More brands are selling their perfumes online, where customers can’t smell them. But a bottle is worth a thousand sniffs.

The Green New Deal could change the way America builds—here’s how

To meet the goals of the resolution, the design and construction industries will retrofit millions of structures and build many more. In the process, they could create a more just and resilient country.

What cities would look like if kids designed them

A lot less polluted, for one.

This kit lets anyone build one of L.A.’s most famous modern masterpieces

The iconic penthouse of Richard Neutra’s 1932 home is now a kit you can buy online.

This is the most dog-friendly office ever

Subscription dog toy company Bark’s 300-person Columbus, Ohio, office hosts 40 to 50 dogs per day.

Plants are the oldest sensors in the world. Could they be the future of computers?

“They’re billion-year evolutionary machines,” says an MIT researcher who is developing ways to turn houseplants into functioning sensors.

The logos of Apple, Nike, Amazon, and Coca-Cola like you’ve never seen them before

Facebook’s recent logo drama is a problem on multiple levels

The company’s new Libra currency features branding that’s very similar to an existing online bank. But that’s only the tip of the Zuckerberg.

This construction company designed its own trailer for job sites, and it’s gorgeous