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Etsy And Lunar Win National Design Awards
Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt has just announced the winners of its 15th annual National Design Awards, celebrating outstanding achievement in American design. As usual, it's a stupendous list of some of...
View ArticleWhat It's Like To Experience Video-Game Lag In Real Life
In a sense, we're all living in the past.According to some neuroscientists, our consciousness lags 80 milliseconds behind actual events. For gamers playing competitive multiplayer action games, that's...
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Apple Engineer Creates 360-Degree Action Cam
Action cams such as GoPro can put you on the back of an eagle. They can drop you from space. They can even let you experience a BASE jump off the World Trade Center. What they can't do, however, is...
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If Jony Ive Designed The Original Nintendo, It Would Look Like This
When the vintage Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was first released in the United States in 1985, it looked like a two-tone plastic shoebox. But what would it look like if Apple designed it today?...
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A Safer Wedding Band For Active Husbands
There are all sorts of wedding bands available to women: ornate, delicate, filigreed. Look upon the ring fingers of most married men, however, and you'll likely see the exact same thing. A big, thick,...
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What's The Difference Between A Font And A Typeface?
One of the major traps, when talking about type, is mixing up fonts with typefaces or treating them as synonymous. Many a typographic expert has haughtily corrected a beginner for mistakenly using the...
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How RadioShack Got Its Groove Back
During the Super Bowl, RadioShack aired an ad that kicked off the retailer's new "Do It Together" marketing campaign. Two zoned-out red shirts stand in an old outlet-mall RadioShack store. The doors...
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Inspired By Asian Body Pillows, A Mattress Designed To Prevent Bedsores
Chinese designer Horatio Yuxin Han has leveraged the design principles behind common Asian products to solve problems that afflict the less fortunate. His Unifold affordable shoes were inspired by the...
View ArticleDisney's 12 Principles Of Animation, In A Cartoon
In the real world, the basic laws of physics were first described by Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. In the world of animation, however, we owe the laws of physics to Frank Thomas and Ollie...
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Google Is Shaping The Future Of Apps Like Lego Bricks
The biggest companies on the Internet are trying to turn the apps on your smartphone into a network they own. Facebook announced a host of new services that would allow the social network to become the...
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Could A $150 Robot Teach Braille Across India's Slums?
At $4,000 each, Braille displays are much too expensive to be of any use to the nearly 8 million visually impaired people living in India.But thanks to a group of clever computer science students from...
View ArticleTemporary Tattoos: Your Arm Is A Cookbook
To be spattered with sauce, sprayed with oil, dolloped with drippings, and occasionally lit on fire--these are the tortures that face any cookbook in the kitchen. But why bother consulting a cookbook...
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This iPhone App Is The Evernote Of Romance
The average romance gets facilitated by a panoply of different apps. Tinder to meet for the first time. iMessage to say "I love you." Spotify to send that special love song. Foursquare to show where...
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The Coat Of Arms Gets A Same-Sex Marriage Update
There is no shortage of heraldic bucket shops selling random coat of arms to any fool who happens upon their cart at the local mall. Not so in England, where the College of Arms properly governs all...
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Ellen DeGeneres Launching Design Reality Show
We all live vicariously through our televisions when we watch the travails of teenage mothers, experience life in hellish New York kitchens, and prance around as the world's greatest drag queen. Now we...
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Google Glass Meets Cyberpunk Light Therapy
Do you feel sadder, fatter, or sleepier in fall and winter? You're not alone. As many as 10 million people in the United States alone suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). A new wearable...
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How To Design Signs For The Gender-Neutral Toilet Of The Future
And so Ally McBeal has won: The bathroom of the future will be gender neutral. How, then, to best adapt toilet signage to address a trans-friendly, non-binary gender system?One designer's witty...
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A Design History Of The Life-Saving Triage Tag
When a massive gas line explosion leveled two buildings in Harlem a few months ago, first responders found a scene of chaos. Amongst the rubble, at least a few people had already been killed. Others...
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Move Over Seamless? Square Releases Tasty Take-Away Food App
Even in the most technophobic pizza joint or hoagie shop, you'll often find a Square credit card reader poking out of a tablet behind the register. Store owners accept Square for payment in more than a...
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6 Starchitects Wearing Their Most Famous Buildings As Hats
Starchitects are a kind of royalty in their own right, so why shouldn't they have crowns? Architects wearing their own buildings as hats is a new project by illustrator Paul Tuller. Based in Brooklyn,...
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