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This Smart Suitcase Flattens For Storage In Small Apartments
When you travel a lot for work, you need a good hard shell suitcase more than you need a big apartment. The only problem? Storing that suitcase when you're at home, a challenge in today's ever...
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Hasbro Sued Over Alleged "My Little Pony" Font Piracy
The Font Brothers may be bros, but they definitely aren't Font Bronies. The Minneapolis-based type foundry is suing Hasbro for unauthorized usage of one of its typefaces in the My Little Pony:...
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This Oculus App Makes Programming Tangible To Non-Coders
For those of us who can't, the ability to code well enough to create entire virtual worlds almost feels god-like. In Loop, a new virtual-reality project by Stefan Wagner, anyone can become a coding...
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This Coat Doubles As A Shelter For Syrian Refugees
The European Union has a refugee crisis on its hands. As upwards of half a million displaced Syrians flee to Europe to escape the horrors of war, they often find themselves sleeping in the open, with...
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How To Design For Autism
Problem: many autistic kids are super sensitive to the sight, sound, and feel of their environment. So when New York-Presbyterian decided to build an early intervention center for autistic children,...
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The Real Divide Between States Isn't About Politics, It's About Girl Scout...
As the 2016 presidential campaigns heat up, the country feels divided, and it turns out that's because it is—by the Girl Scouts and their annual Girl Scouts Cookie Sales. Forget about red versus blue:...
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Can Font Design Be Crowdsourced?
Thanks to U.K. design firm Hato, the annual Pick Me Up graphic arts festival has some innovative new branding: a crowdsourced font, created through an online tool that lets anyone design and submit a...
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Check Out NASA's New WPA-Inspired Ads For Space Tourism
Terrestrially, the Golden Age of Travel may be long behind us (if it ever really existed to begin with). But when it comes to space, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab thinks the golden age of travel still lays...
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Scientists Modified This $40 Cotton Candy Machine To Spin Artificial Organs
Go to your local fair and watch a carny spin you a cone of candy floss. You might not know it, but that's how your body is put together: the structure of cotton candy is remarkably similar to the...
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What Fashion Will Look Like When We Upload Our Brains To The Cloud
Back in the glory days of cyberpunk, people talked a lot about avatars: a person's representation in cyberspace. While an avatar today is just the small image attached to your Twitter account, the word...
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Hieronymus Bosch's Vision Of Hell Is Even More Horrifying In VR
In my living room, I am wearing a Google Cardboard headset and drinking my coffee. But in virtual reality, I'm on the back of a giant fish, flying through a smoldering apocalypse and surrounded by the...
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The Sprawling "Star Wars" Universe, Visualized For The First Time
"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away." Those 10 simple words are branded into the mind of every Star Wars fan, and for good reason: they're perfect. They effortlessly convey what makes Star Wars...
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Quartz's New App Is Like Giving Your Number To The Wrong Dude At The Club
Quartz, the so-called future of news apps, is typing. And typing. And typing.Like a hyperventilating tweenager venting through an interminable iMessage screed, Quartz is sending me a flurry of one...
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Remembering The Design Legacy Of Steve Jobs's Other Great Computer Company
Wiki CommonsWhile making the recent Steve Jobs biopic, researchers working for Aaron Sorkin found a VHS tape containing a long-lost video of Jobs launching the NeXT workstation in 1988, the eponymous...
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There's A Functioning Amusement Park Inside This Ancient Salt Mine
Plunging 367 feet underground beneath one of Romania's largest cities, the Salina Turda is a salt mine that dates back almost a millennium. In the 1990s, it was reinvented as a tourist attraction—and...
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Zocdoc's New Identity Puts A Friendly Face On Health Care
Twenty years ago, you found a doctor by asking a friend or another doctor for a recommendation. Today, at least one in two Internet users searches for his next doctor online. It's convenient, sure, but...
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Meet The 13-Year-Old Who's Adding Sounds To Your Emoji
Last week, Sir Paul McCartney announced that he was putting a capstone on his almost 50-year musical career with one of his most "challenging" projects yet: writing jingles for 10 Valentine's Day...
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Japanese Signs Are The Best, And This Poster Proves It
There are many reasons to go to Tokyo: the food, the shopping, the museums, the culture, and, if you're a design nerd like us, the signage. Japanese signage is in a class all its own: an onslaught of...
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The Failed Plan To Give Every President Their Own Mount Rushmore Head
A neglected field in Croaker, Virginia, is the site of a modern-day Eastern Island, not made up of stone Fiji gods, but 20-foot-tall Presidential busts, each one weighing between 11,000 and 20,000...
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This Massive Twitter Brain Visualized The News Of David Bowie's Death In Real...
When David Bowie died on January 10, 2016, the Internet mourned. If you were sitting in Cubo, an Italian multimedia center located in Bologna, you could have watched it happen, as thousands of tweets...
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