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22 Things You Need To Know About Apple's Jonathan Ive
Over the long weekend, The New Yorker published an epic profile of Jonathan Ive. Given unprecedented access to the world's most influential (and, perhaps, world's shyest) industrial designer, it's a...
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6 Auto Design Visionaries Who Could Make Apple's Titan Car A Reality
Steve Jobs always wanted to make an iCar, at least according to Apple board member Mickey Drexler. Now, years after Jobs's death, Apple's finally setting out to do it, reports the Wall Street Journal....
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The New York Times Magazine Redesigns With Web Readers In Mind
Sandwiched inside every Sunday edition, the New York Times Magazine is one of the most widely read print magazines in the U.S. that you'll never see sold by itself on newsstands. According to the...
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A Simple Web App That Makes Designing Your Own Font A Cinch
Designing a typeface is an equal mixture of art and science. But what if you take the art out of the equation, and just leave the (computer) science? Metaflop is a new online playground for font...
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A Guide Through The Labyrinth Of Literary Fiction
Although Brooklyn-based Pop Chart Labs has been formative in turning trendy infographics into a serious business—and created some of our all-time favorite data visualizations—they've kind of been...
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Bringing Sherlock Holmes Mysteries To Life, One Doorway At A Time
Few addresses call to mind the same imagery as 221B Baker Street in London. Sherlock Holmes's famous address evokes the smell of tobacco, the sound of a violin, and the sight of a meerschaum and a...
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This Clever Pushpin Won't Damage Your Prints
Framing is expensive, especially if you want to frame a non-standard-sized print. But the alternatives aren't great: you can either scotch tape your print to the wall like a teenager, pin it up with a...
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Bang & Olufsen's New Stereo Can Read Your Mind
Thanks to companies like Spotify, Rdio, and more, a nearly endless succession of music flows from our devices like tap water. So while the design problem of the last 50 years or so has been the best...
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Guess Which Country's Companies Profit Most From War?
The United States is at the center of a great colorful pinwheel of death, at least according to the latest infographic from Natalia Bronshtein, a data visualizer who focuses on economic trends and...
View ArticleThis French Creative Agency Counts Everything It Does In Its Office. EVERYTHING.
The future predicted by the Internet of Things is one that is infinitely quantifiable. Once you've slapped sensors on everything, there's virtually no end to the seemingly mundane things you can count:...
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This Game Is Based On The Hacking Scene from 'Jurassic Park'
20 years after its initial release, the special effects in Stephen Spielberg's Jurassic Park have held up remarkably well. There is one effect in Jurassic Park that has held up less kindly in the court...
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Here's What Apple's Racially Diverse Emoji Look Like
A couple weeks ago, Apple started laying the groundwork for adding racially-diverse emoji to the Mac. Now, they're making good, adding the ability to select your own appropriately skin-toned emoji to...
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In The Smartwatch Battle Against Apple And Google, Pebble's Secret Weapon Is...
Pebble has just announced their latest smartwatch, the Pebble Time, and after two hours, the next-gen e-ink smartwatch has already been fully funded on Kickstarter. Despite some design...
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Amsterdam Is Planning On Building An Underwater Parking Garage For Bikes
Here's what you might call a good problem, at least from an urban design standpoint: Amsterdam has so many bikes, it's going to build a partially underwater bicycle parking garage to hold them...
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If Thoreau Took LSD, This Is The Cabin He'd Design
From the foot of the snowy, picturesque massif that residents of Bergen, Norway, call the Seven Mountains, the Tubakuba looks like any number of modernly designed rural cabins. It's a small cube of...
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Lunar's First Apple Watch App Is Part Sundial, Part Time Machine
It was the middle of the night, and John Edson's brain was frazzled with jet lag. He couldn't get back to sleep. The president of international design firm Lunar lives in San Francisco, but this was...
View ArticleThis Art Installation Turns You Into A Dancing Stick Figure
Klaus Obermaier is an Austrian interactive and video artist currently holding a workshop at Roman's Babes-Bloyai University in Cluj-Napoca. His description of his latest work, Ego is ponderous, talking...
View ArticlePoetic NASA Visualization Shows How Everything Is Connected
On Earth, there couldn't be a bigger difference between the Amazon rainforest and the African Sahara. The latter is a brown streak of wasteland; the former, green and teeming with life. Polar opposites...
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The Official Nintendo Style Guide From 1993
In 1993, buoyed by three years of SNES sales and at the height of its success, Nintendo decided to get its brand in order by creating an official style guide for all of its major characters, from Mario...
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A Data Nerd's Guide To Winning Texas Hold 'Em
Do you suck at the mental math of Texas Hold 'Em? Here's an interactive cheat sheet that you might want to play around with before your next game. Chris Beaumont, a former software engineer at...
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