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This Collapsible Bike Helmet Doesn't Welch On Safety To Save Space
We can debate all day whether or not, given proper infrastructure, bike helmets are necessary. Regardless, in America, the infrastructure isn't there, which makes helmets something everyone should...
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The Improved 'Bookerly' Font Is Now Available For Most Kindles
If you use an e-paper Kindle, good news. The "Bookerly" update—which includes an improved layout engine and a new default font—is finally starting to hit the majority of devices.Typography on the...
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How To Reinvent The Mouse Cursor For The VR Age
The mouse cursor—that oft-pixelated, 2-D arrow that's constantly hovering over your computer screen—hasn't really changed much since it emerged from the labs of Xerox Parc. But the mouse cursor is...
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The World's First 3-D Printed Violin Sounds Pretty Groovy
For whatever reason, violins are often at the forefront of futuristic design. But no matter how crazy a violin looks, the only thing that really matters is how it sounds. So while the 3Dvarius, the...
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This Hermit Crab Has A Glass Cathedral For A Shell
Hermit crabs are famous for making a home of anything even remotely shell-like: old cans, shoes, toy buckets, and so-on. They're the trailer trash of the crustacean world. Japanese artist Aki Inomata...
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A Definitive Rundown Of Fictional Beers
You've drank your way through the beers of the world, you lush you. That wasn't good enough for Brooklyn's Pop Chart Labs, though. On the heels of their Ultimate Beer Infographic, Pop Chart wants you...
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Smart Highways That Can Charge Your Electric Car Are Coming To The U.K.
If you've got an electric car in the United States, the distance between charging stations could make a long road trip fraught with anxiety. But what if the highway you're riding on recharged your car...
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What Does Bill Murray Smell Like? This Scratch-N-Sniff Will Let You Find Out
Bill Murray is one of the most elusive and enigmatic actors in Hollywood, but what does he smell like? Cook Your Own Food is a new scratch and sniff tribute to the Ghostbusters and Scrooged actor that...
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How Do You Make Projection Mapping Even Trippier? Just Add 3-D Glasses
We've seen many, many, many times before how projection mapping can be used to create mind-blowing optical illusions. But what happens when you add 3-D glasses to the mix?That was the idea behind...
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The World's Most Beautiful Train Ride: A Tale In 13 Photographs
Staring out a train window as the countryside blurs by is one of the quintessential pleasures of continental travel. These are the moments of zen that London-based artist Rolf Sachs has made the...
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Q&A: Sagmeister & Walsh Announces It's Moving By Getting Naked And Lying In...
When most design firms change offices, they set up an address forward. But when Stefan Sagmeister & Jessica Walsh of the eponymous Sagmeister & Walsh were finally driven out of their New York...
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Colorful X-Ray Photos Illuminate The Beauty Of Vintage Industrial Design
Everything looks cooler when you blast it with X-rays. The photography of Roy Livingston makes electromagnetic radiation his muse; in his colorful series, X-Ray Visions, the skins of alarm clocks, toy...
View ArticleA Giant Lite-Brite For Designers (And Other Grown-Ups)
You might know it from childhood, or you might know it from its recent cameo in Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp: The Lite-Brite is a classic electronic toy that let kids plug small...
View ArticleExplained: The Secret Language Of New York City's Signage
When you walk down the streets of New York City, you aren't walking just through the present. You are surrounded by the canyon walls of the past, and the signage around you—the building names, the...
View ArticleThis Rorschach Alarm Clock Is Filled With Ferromagnetic "Creatures"
If we're not using our smartphones, most of us have alarm clocks counting down those precious minutes of remaining sleep using either analog dials or LED displays. But designer Zelf Koelman of the...
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Pentagram Designer Spills His Blood To Visualize Hiroshima
There are plenty of (bad) ways to visualize nuclear atrocity, but when Pentagram designer Harry Pearce was asked to design a poster for a new exhibition about the legacy of Hiroshima 70 years later, he...
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All 78 Original "Star Trek" Episodes, Rendered As Minimalist Posters
Compared to today's CGI-laden sci-fi shows, the original Star Trek was about as minimalist as it gets: the sets were cardboard, the aliens all rubber and grease paint, and the uniforms little better...
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Watch: Legendary Designer Saul Bass Explains Why We Create
Saul Bass is best known for his amazing title sequences (The Man With A Golden Arm, North By Northwest), film posters (Vertigo, The Shining), and corporate logos (AT&T, United Airlines). Compared...
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Q&A: Susan Kare On Why Pinterest Feels Like Apple In The '80s
Late last month, social bookmarking site Pinterest announced a hiring coup: they were bringing on Susan Kare, the legendary designer behind the original Mac's icons and fonts, as a product design lead....
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You Don't Need A Kitty To Love This Modular Cat Cube Playground
Here at Co.Design, we've got a soft spot for design aimed at pets, but it's rare that we see anything designed for dogs and cats that even animal haters would drool over. You could want to see every...
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