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How Trajan Rose From The Grave To Become The New Helvetica
When it comes to fonts, Adobe's Trajan is one of the most seen, but not necessarily the most known. The imperial, Roman-inspired typeface is used for everything from movie posters, book jackets,...
View ArticleThis House Was Inspired By "Star Wars"
Why buy a starter home when you can buy a Star Wars home? The Starwars House, by Korean architecture firm Moon Hoon, manages to look like Obi Wan Kenobi's guest house without actually directly...
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Billboard's Top Songs Of The Past 5 Decades, Visualized
Earlier this year, Flowing Data statistician and visualizer Nathan Yau released a poster of 100 Famous Movie Quotes as a series of diagrams. Now it's time to do the same thing for music. For his follow...
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A Tiny Humidifier For Desiccated Travelers
Airlines keep their cabins dry in part to prevent corrosion. Combine a flight with a night's sleep in a dry hotel room, and it's enough to desiccate anyone. But with this tiny six-inch Bottle...
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MIT Invents A Magic Lens That Combines All Your Screens Into A Single Experience
When we need to send a command or a file from our smartphone to our laptop, we do it through menus. But imagine if we didn't have to send something to another device by dragging it to a file, or...
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If Pantone Brewed, Its Beer Packaging Would Look Like This
From a pale ale to an imperial stout, beer comes in a panoply of colors. Stout is dark, for example, because it is made with roasted malt or barley, whereas pale ale gets its lighter color from the...
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PillPack's New Dashboard Tries To Tame Pharmaceutical Insanity
There's nothing sexy about helping people manage their meds, but earlier this year, PillPack succeeded, allowing customers to replace their unruly pillboxes with a pre-assorted, foolproof ticker tape...
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The Best Way To Protect Your iPhone 6 Without Destroying Its Design
No one with design on the brain likes putting their iPhone in a case, but they're a necessary evil. Sure, Jony Ive is one of the greatest industrial designers alive, and covering up one of his designs...
View ArticleFilmmaker Creates World's Most Terrifying Traffic Intersection
Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep films is a master at live video editing, mashing up multiple separate films into a single setting. The Argentinian director's latest video might not seem terribly...
View ArticleThis Kinetic Wall Of Clocks Is Utterly Hypnotic
Some things are just meant to be seen in motion. That's certainly the case with A Million Times, a whirring board of almost 300 analogue clocks that exist in such a beautiful harmony with one another...
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Where ISIS Fighters Come From
Outside of Syria and Iraq, the majority of the Islamic State's 20,000-plus fighter corps comes from fellow Muslim-majority countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco. But many ISIS...
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Game Designer Chelsea Howe On Why Taipei Is A Design Paradise
Welcome to Wanderlust, a new series on Co.Design in which some of our favorite designers share their secret picks and insider tips for the best design cities on the planet. This week, Chelsea Howe,...
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The Glaring Design Flaw In U.S. Election Maps
We see it every election: a map of the United States, each state color coded red or blue according to whether voters swung Republican or Democrat.But as we all know, infographics can lie: a 51/49 split...
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Why Businessweek's Ugly Tim Cook Cover Is Subversive Genius
To say that the design of Bloomberg Businessweek's latest cover has raised eyebrows is to underestimate the ability of human eyebrows to literally rip themselves off of the skull to which they are...
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iPod Mastermind Tony Fadell On The Death Of The iPod: "You Can't Get Too...
What does it feel like to lose your design child?Join us at the 2014 Innovation By Design Awards and Conference October 15 in New York for an intimate conversation with Nest CEO Tony Fadell. Sign up...
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This Logo Is Just A Bunch Of Squiggly Lines, And It's Perfect
The U.K.'s Melbourn Squash Club (the sport, not the gourd) has a new logo. It's just a jumble of squiggly lines. It looks like any kid could have scrawled it in the margin of his Mead notebook during...
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Bombay Sapphire's New Headquarters Look Like A Giant Drop Of Gin
To design its first-ever distillery and headquarters, Bombay Sapphire turned to Thomas Heatherwick, the mad scientist of British architecture who has previously created art museums out of grain silos,...
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A Typeface For The Bauhaus
Bauhaus is many things besides an art school founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 : a school, a philosophy, an ideal, and a design heritage. But one thing it has never been before is a single corporate...
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The Insanity Of CEO Paychecks, Visualized
Just about everyone on the planet agrees that CEOs earn too much. Except CEOs. But how much is too much? Let's put it this way: the average American worker would earn almost $2 million a year if he...
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Smart Homes Make For Angry Roommates
If you've ever come home to a roommate's dread passive-aggressive note tacked to the refrigerator door, you might not want to move into a smart home. Researchers have discovered that the smarter your...
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