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This Designer Is Saving Detroit’s Old-School Sign Typography By Turning It Into Fonts

As old businesses close and new ones move in, neighborhoods are losing their visual identities. But now they can have signs that stay true to the neighborhood’s roots.

This Designer Is Saving Detroit’s Old-School Sign Typography By Turning It Into Fonts

Can’t Remember Where You Left Your Bike? Now Your Bell Can Help Guide You

Dude, where’s my bike? Like a car alarm, the Pingbell will tell you.

Can’t Remember Where You Left Your Bike? Now Your Bell Can Help Guide You

This Glowing White Orb Shows How Much Water You’re Using In Real Time

Want to conserve water? Why not make it a competition with Oasys?

This Glowing White Orb Shows How Much Water You’re Using In Real Time

Why This Famous Artist Is Crowdfunding A Clever Solar Phone Charger

Olafur Eliasson steps away from art to get into the power business.

Why This Famous Artist Is Crowdfunding A Clever Solar Phone Charger

Helping Waste Pickers Earn A Better Living While They Keep City Streets Clean

Recyling is done by hand in many poor countries. Shouldn’t the people who sort get a fair price for their labor?

Helping Waste Pickers Earn A Better Living While They Keep City Streets Clean

This Smart Shower Senses When You’re Shaving Your Legs To Cut Water Use

It can reduce water use by up to half–without making your shower a cold, miserable experience.

This Smart Shower Senses When You’re Shaving Your Legs To Cut Water Use

The Giant Air Purifier Is Actually A Jewelry Making Machine–And The Jewelry Is Made From Smog

Every ring holds as much smog as 1,000 cubic meters of city air.

The Giant Air Purifier Is Actually A Jewelry Making Machine–And The Jewelry Is Made From Smog

This Made-In-Detroit T-Shirt Is Guaranteed To Last For The Rest Of Your Life

The Heirloom tee, on Kickstarter now, is made with ethics and local jobs for former prison inmates in mind.

This Made-In-Detroit T-Shirt Is Guaranteed To Last For The Rest Of Your Life

These Photos Will Take You On A Trip Inside The World Of The 1%

A look at what extreme wealth means at a time when fewer and fewer people can even comprehend it.

These Photos Will Take You On A Trip Inside The World Of The 1%

This Ultra-Thin Solar Charger Can Power Up Your iPhone On The Go

Practical off-the-grid phone charging is becoming a reality.

This Ultra-Thin Solar Charger Can Power Up Your iPhone On The Go

Buy One Of These Lovely T-Shirts And Help A Liberian Kid Go To School (And A Liberian T-Shirt Maker)

Every purchase sends $5 to $10 to make a new school outfit for kids in the Ebola-ravaged nation. But they also fix what’s wrong with the one-for-one model.

Buy One Of These Lovely T-Shirts And Help A Liberian Kid Go To School (And A Liberian T-Shirt Maker)

This Lightbulb Changes Color To Match Your Biological Clock

Blue light is best in the day, and red light will help you sleep at night. Now you don’t have to choose.

This Lightbulb Changes Color To Match Your Biological Clock

Could We End Road Rage If You Could Just Send A Smiley Face To Other Drivers?

The power of a simple gesture can do wonders, even from within a dangerous hunk of metal.

Could We End Road Rage If You Could Just Send A Smiley Face To Other Drivers?

The Hospital Lights Won’t Stay On In Gaza, So Doctors Look To Solar Roofs

Unreliable electricity puts patients’ lives at risk.

The Hospital Lights Won’t Stay On In Gaza, So Doctors Look To Solar Roofs

Turn Your Driving Into A Game Of Efficiency With This Dashboard Device

Your bad driving is costing you money. Teach yourself better behaviors.

Turn Your Driving Into A Game Of Efficiency With This Dashboard Device

Make The Lives Of The Elderly Better: Give Them Bike Rides

Cycling Without Age started a single gesture of kindness for a stranger in his nineties. Now, it’s expanding into chapters all over the world.

Make The Lives Of The Elderly Better: Give Them Bike Rides

This Alaska Startup Is Making Nice Luxury Items From Stinky Seafood Byproducts

The salmon leather wallets and crab shell fiber T-shirts are not only fun to wear, they also help do something useful with the industry’s waste.

This Alaska Startup Is Making Nice Luxury Items From Stinky Seafood Byproducts

This Automatic Parachute Keeps Your Drone From Crashing And Burning

If your drone can fly without a pilot, it should be able to protect itself without a pilot.

This Automatic Parachute Keeps Your Drone From Crashing And Burning

This Gadget Washes Your Car With Less Water Than You Probably Use To Brush Your Teeth

Send a few to California, please?

This Gadget Washes Your Car With Less Water Than You Probably Use To Brush Your Teeth

This Swimming Pool Is So Natural, It’s Carved Out Of London’s River Thames

Swimming pools in polluted urban rivers–it’s definitely becoming a trend. It helps that the view’s not bad.

This Swimming Pool Is So Natural, It’s Carved Out Of London’s River Thames

Impact

‘We can’t go on like this’: A year on Bali without tourists

This hoodie is 100% carbon negative

The future of footwear is circular

News

Unemployment update: These states are ending the federal $300 weekly benefit early

Disney stock price takes a hit after Disney Plus subscribers grow more slowly than expected

WhatsApp’s privacy deadline is Saturday. These alternatives are rising

Co.Design

Never faceplant again staring at your phone, thanks to this robotic third eye

This incredible bridge was designed by students—and built by robots

Inside Discord’s risky push to position itself as the anti-Facebook

Work Life

5 reasons moms make for great leaders

Why millennial women are turning to theSkimm (yes, theSkimm) for money advice

How to ask your boss to let you keep working from home