Co.Design

Wear a natural history museum on your feet with these $140 slippers

Ken Fulk, an interior designer known for bold color, eclectic historical influences, and an obsession with animals, just created house slippers for Birdies.

The people who clean up the mess Burning Man leaves behind

Designers, stop talking about empathy!

Talk less, do more.

This self-lubing condom lasts for 1,000 thrusts–and could change sex

How do you get people to wear condoms? Design one that feels better than anything else on the market.

This Weather Channel viz drops you into a raging California wildfire

Trump’s latest tweet is a crime against data design

Barbara Kruger was making the art we need today in 1990

Who dies first? Who laughs last? Kruger’s iconic piece, Untitled (Questions), was reinstalled this week at MOCA.

This smart coffee mug can track your caffeine intake

75% of people think this AI artist is human

One piece recently sold for $16,000 at an auction.

The most important design tool you’re not using

It’ll be love at first sight.

This is what happens when you let a drunk robot design a lamp

It was all going so well.

The radical idea behind this kitchen brand? Selling fewer tools

Material Kitchen, a new startup founded by an ex-Chanel and Valentino exec, challenges the idea that we need dozens of different gadgets to cook.

I want this minimalist mini-office so badly

How Dame designed a patriarchy-free vibrator

The startup began by asking women a simple question: How do they masturbate?

Microsoft is betting on the future of buildings

Microsoft just brought an architecture firm to its IoT lab for the first time–here’s what it could mean for the future of buildings.

Tyler, the Creator is in full bloom

Tyler, the Creator is an exuberant rap star and a thoughtful polymath working across fashion, animation, and film. WarnerMedia, Nike, and Sony have hopped aboard. Are you ready to ride?

A skeptic’s guide to thinking about AI

From marketing hype to fuzzy ethics.

What AI could learn from nature

Biological concepts offer a useful framework for thinking about some of the most complex computational problems of our time, writes Michigan State University professor Arend Hintze.

The Instant Pot of weed rolls your joints for you

The Otto is a one-touch joint making machine.