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This Chart Of Electronic Music Is Also A Blueprint For A Synthesizer
London-based infographic maker Dorothy has been inspired by a lot of different types of prints in their times, creating great prints such as fhorror films arranged as star charts to periodic tables of...
View Article16 Iconic Movie Posters Transformed Into Vividly Animated GIFs
Look at the posters for Lost In Translation, Eraserhead, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Drive, and The Exorcist. So many of the world's most iconic movie posters are still-life adaptations of equally iconic...
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Google Goes Analog With Its New Note-Taking Tools
Think With Google is a service Google offers that gives marketers insight into how to best promote their companies. It offers a series of tools which use Google's own data to analyze trends, behaviors,...
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BitTorrent's New Browser Is Also A Data Viz
Rightly or wrongly, when you think of BitTorrent, you usually think of piracy. But with Project Maelstrom, BitTorrent is aiming to leverage its peer-to-peer file distribution technology to the very web...
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Nendo's Lovely New Line Of Dishware Is Designed For Tiny Apartments
We put handles on our mugs and our pots, but not our bowls or our plates. With their new line of dishware, Japanese design house Nendo is asking why not. The Totte-Plates line of bowls and plates each...
View ArticleThese Alien Glass Paintings Hide An Awesome Optical Illusion Inside
Inspired by micro-organisms, anemones, and undersea plants, German glass painter Wilfried Grootens is such a master of his craft that by simply turning one of his cubic paintings to the side, the...
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The Ultimate Minimalist Table Is Practically Invisible
Accidentally bump against a normal coffee table, and you might get a shin bruise. Do it against South Korean designer Seung Jun Jeong's Table Chieut, though, and you might sheer your legs right off....
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Tokyo's Best Hostel Lets You Have A Sleepover In A Bookstore
When you're backpacking, there's nothing quite as nice as tucking in early and curling up with a book in your hostel. And that's doubly true at Tokyo's Book and Bed hostel, a place designed to look and...
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How Monotype Remastered Eric Gill For The 21st Century
First created by famed British typeface designer Eric Gill in 1928, Gill Sans has been used over the years by everyone from the BBC to Ferris Bueller. Its most iconic use, though, is probably on the...
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An Adorable Cyber Piggy Bank That Teaches Kids To Save Digitally
Piggy banks teach kids lessons about savings, spending, delayed gratification, and responsibility. But they're also increasingly obsolete, as allowances increasingly get paid out in ATM cards and...
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Detroit's Silliest Gas Guzzler, Recreated In Cardboard
When Shannon Goff was five years old, her grandfather bought a brand-new car: a 1979 Lincoln Continental Mark V. "Rakish, decadent, and wildly inefficient," Goff still remembers every detail of that...
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Google Designer's Hypnotic Visualization Sets (Piano) Phasers To Stun
In music theory, phasing is a compositional technique in which the same sequence of notes are played over and over again by two instruments, one of which continuously increases its tempo. This creates...
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7 Absurdist Gadgets That Explore Our Relationship With Technology
We live in the full throes of the electric age. Why do all our gadgets look the same, then? Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dan Adlešič was sick of the sleek-but-boring rectangles of glass,...
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This Innovative Notebook Is Like MagSafe for Moleskines
I'm fussy with my notebooks. I want them to be orderly, chronological compendiums of my ideas, my creative processes, and my life. But all too often, they become disorderly. I've been known to throw...
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500 Alien Worlds, Visualized
It's hard to imagine, but up until 1992, astronomers had no direct proof that any planets existed outside of the solar system. Sure, it seemed likely—the earliest speculation about exoplanets was way...
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The Helmets From "Star Wars" Redesigned For Elephants, Hippos, And Rhinos
Although there's plenty of aliens in the Star Wars canon, most of the main heroes and villains look human. But why human? The universe existed a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. In that...
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The Art World's It Boy Reveals His Creative Process
Dustin Yellin, a 40-year-old Brooklyn artist who has posed naked for Vanity Fair, dated Michelle Williams, and billed as the art world's next "it boy," is a fun guy to interview. Over the phone, he...
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From MVRDV, A Disco Ball For Rotterdam's Art Collection
Dutch firm MVRDV—the designers of Seoul's skygarden, a tennis club shaped like a comfy couch, and 676 Lego skyscrapers—have just unveiled a new addition to their unorthodox architecture portfolio: a...
View ArticleThis Glowing Quicksilver Blob May Look Like CGI, But It's Real
Hovering in the middle of the room, this amorphous, color-shifting blob looks like a CGI effect: the warp core of a faster-than-light spaceship, perhaps, or the entry portal to a stargate. Unlike a CGI...
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This Lovely New Process Makes Chairs That Look Like Pantone Swatches
Ranging between light beige and dark brown, plywood usually isn't very colorful. But a new process from Japanese designer Kazuya Koike makes plywood as beautiful and colorful as textiles, thanks to a...
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