Lego and Muji recently released a collaborative toy project in Japan that cleverly merges the personality of each brand.
Read more...November 20, 2009
November 19, 2009
EA Sports Opens Pop-up Training Centers for a Fitness Video Game
Take a look at EA Sports new pop-up training centers that encourage better personal fitness.
Read more...November 17, 2009
Visual Inspiration: Things I’ve Seen
Live vicariously through the eyes of a young designer in London.
Read more...November 16, 2009
November 13, 2009
Architecture in 2009: Efficient, Empowering, Elegant
Substance over style for buildings in 2009.
Read more...Bentley Gets Idle Design Staff to Create Art for Charity
Freed up design staff creates an amazing collection of art for a good cause.
Read more...November 3, 2009
Library Transformed into a 24 Hour, Open Air, Community Space
Hands down this is one of the most interesting examples creative architecture and community spaces we’ve seen all year. But the finished project almost falls in the shadow of the story about how this library came about.
Read more...November 2, 2009
The Best New Architecture of NYC You Haven’t Seen
There’s a long list of new large scale buildings in Manhattan that have skewed the focus of architecture critiques and design reviews of the city towards grand projects. But New York Magazine recently uncovered several small city projects tucked away in the outerboroughs that are examples of good architectural solutions meeting challenging community and city service building projects.
Read more...October 30, 2009
Bus Shelter Made From Recycled Buses
Sculptor Christopher Fennell created a bus shelter in Atlanta from three decommissioned school busses. Exterior slices of a ‘62,’72, and ‘77 buses were joined together and the seating is from an old city bus. Interesting mix of creative reuse of materials and their context.
Read more...Toyota Creates Flowers to Clean Prius Factory Air
Automakers have made attempts to create more environmentally friendly factories before. Subaru even leveraged its zero landfill factory in Indiana as part of an advertising campaign. But Toyota looks to have raised the bar to a new height by engineering two new flowering plants to help clean the air at its Toyota City factory in Japan.
Read more...October 26, 2009
Hotel Architecture Inspired by Trees
The architectural firm IAD proposes rethinking the structure of tall buildings based on how trees grow. Their proposal for a ‘treehouse hotel’ merges living space and vertical gardens in a building that forgoes the traditional glass box.
Read more...October 16, 2009
Human Powered Water Purification Island
A unique installation at the Synchronicity architectural and arts festival in Warsaw, Poland provides purified water in exchange for some exercise.
Read more...October 13, 2009
Sophisticated Subaru FHI Hybrid Concept to Debut in Tokyo
The FHI concept will debut next week at the Tokyo motor show and is based on the theme “Take a Moment to Free Your Mind”. The exterior design hints at the styling evolution of the Subaru brand and features large gullwing doors.
Read more...Designer Chris Jackson Experiments With Alt-Manufacturing
We recently received photos of new work by designer Chris Jackson who we met at the ICFF last spring. He debuted a collection of functional objects called ‘Digital Readymades’ at last months 100% Design event in London.
Read more...October 6, 2009
Icebreaker Turns Old Synthetic T-Shirts into Running Bags Live
In preparation for the NYC Marathon, outdoor clothing company Icebreaker has set up a live seamstress in the window of Paragon Sports in NYC to convert old synthetic running t-shirts into shoe bags for free.
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