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Only A Radical Design Shift Can Fix Apple's Bendy iPhone Problem
The iPhone 6 is Apple's thinnest iPhone ever. But as people are discovering, it's also the bendiest, with many customers complaining that the frame of the iPhone 6 can be permanently bent just by...
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Baggu CEO Emily Sugihara On Why All Designers Should Visit Tokyo
Welcome to Wanderlust, a weekly series on Co.Design where some of our favorite designers share their secret picks and insider tips for the best design cities on the planet. Today, Emily Sugihara of...
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Can You Recognize Your Favorite Websites By Looking Only At Their Skeletons?
Chances are you wouldn't be able to recognize your friends or loved ones without their skin, but how about your favorite websites? Can you tell them apart when they are stripped right down to their...
View ArticleHow Levi's Turned A Design Evil Into A Design Signature
Designers and corporate lawyers aren't exactly known for seeing eye to eye, especially when it comes to trademark symbols. What a designer might think of as an unnecessary besmirchment of a beautiful...
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The Yachts Of The Super-Rich Do Battle In These Violent Photo Montages
Upon being appointed Dictator of the Roman Empire in 46 B.C., Julius Caesar had a large basin dug near the Tiber River. He filled it with ancient battleships and 6,000 prisoners of war, who were...
View ArticleWatch This Video, And You'll Wish You Had A Lot More Marbled Paper In Your Life
Paper marbling is an ancient art, in which droplets of paint are floated in a viscous solution, combed, brushed, and blown upon, then carefully transferred to paper to create a unique monotype print....
View ArticleType Stars Jonathan Hoefler And Tobias Frere-Jones Settle Their Bitter Lawsuit
Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Hoefler, the Beatles of the type world, aren't getting back together any time soon. But their bitter lawsuit over ownership of the world-famous type foundry that once...
View ArticlePost-It's New App Blurs The Line Between Real Notes And Virtual Ones
Computers and Post-its have always had a weird synergy. There's no shortage of apps out there that allow you to drop a virtual Post-it on your desktop or smartphone. Heck, OS X even has one built-in....
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Watch This Guy Sculpt A Spider In Mid-Air Using An Oculus Rift
The appeal of the Oculus Rift is most often expressed in terms of exploring digital worlds, from Seinfeld's apartment to virtual amusement parks. What we usually don't think about is how virtual...
View ArticleHow Your Desk Has Evolved Over The Past 35 Years
The Rolodex, the dictionary, the fax machine, the telephone, the calculator, the globe. These are just some of the objects that have disappeared from our desks over the past 35 years, as technology has...
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How Ammunition Helped Polaroid Design An Action Cam For Everyone
For the better part of the 20th Century, peeling a snapshot out of your Polaroid instant camera was as social as photography got. But 50 years after Land invented the instant camera, Polaroid was...
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The First Practical Invisibility Cloak Is Here
At long last, a practical invisibility cloak is here. But the Rochester Cloak is not some futuristic, sci-fi belt, or a wizard's cape: it's just a clever configuration of standard lenses that bend...
View ArticleOstrich Pillow Mini: A Handy Device For Power Napping
The Ostrich Pillow may let you sleep anywhere, but boy, did it make you look stupid. And the Ostrich Pillow Light, the Mach II nap pillow by Madrid-based designer Kawamura-Ganjavin, was just as...
View ArticleThese Six "Monkeys" Will Totally Change The Way You Look At Email
Email can be a chaotic thing, but we manage it with software magic and esoteric philosophies like Inbox Zero. Designer Brendan Dawes wondered what it would be like if we interacted with email...
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How 5 Different Creatures Flap Their Wings
Eleanor Lutz is the 22-year-old Seattle-based designer behind Spaceship Earth, an online map that transforms Earth into the Death Star. But Lutz isn't just a sci-fi nerd. She's also got a degree in...
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The Most Hated Design Trend Is Back
Whatever the Apple Watch is, it's not a watch. Not really. Nor is any smartwatch: the Moto 360, the Pebble, or the Samsung Gear Live. It's an entirely new class of device. But it doesn't look like a...
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A Chemex For Your Mineral Water Is Here
Imagine a Chemex for purifying water. That, in a nut shell, is the premise of the Water Fall, a new water filtration system from Kor that presents an elegant alternative to a Brita filter, inspired by...
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How The New Yorker Finally Figured Out The Internet: 3 Lessons From Its Web...
In late July, NewYorker.com unveiled a slew of changes aimed at modernizing the site. The update included a responsive design that's meant to work just as well on smartphones as it does on desktops and...
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Boston: The Venice Of New England?
Although many people will migrate as sea levels rise due to climate change, cities can't. Instead, they'll have to adapt as best they can. In Boston, plans are already being made to deal with rising...
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A Dark Ride That Scares You Out Of The Oculus Rift's Uncanny Valley
Even the Oculus Rift has an uncanny valley. Though Facebook's virtual reality headset can transport you into ultra-realistic digital worlds, there's still something subtly off about them you can't...
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