What Bendable Screens Mean For The Future Of UI
Bend your smartphone today, and it'll probably break. Bend it three years from now, and it could snap a photo or turn a page in an e-book.So suggests Roel Vertegaal, a professor of human-computer...
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Mind-Reading GIF Dresses Are Here!
Nayana Malhotra loves GIFs. Loves them. When she's not designing new fashions, she's filling her Tumblr with GIF after GIF. Now, the GIF-loving designer has figured out how to merge the two. Her new...
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This Concrete Lamp Is A Little Chunk Of Brutalism For Your Desk
Brutalism is a design movement that exists in the macro scale of cities, not the micro scale of desktops. But maybe it should be the other way around, considering how button cute this little Brutalist...
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10 Corporate Executives Who Should Be In Prison, According To Prisoners
Charles Listo Vera, prison ID #A1-61401, is serving 19 years for attempted manslaughter. One of his pastimes is drawing portraits, some of which his family sells on eBay. His latest portrait, though,...
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16 Famous Designers Show Us Their Favorite Notebooks
Sure, digital design apps might be finally coming into their own, but there's still nothing better than pen and paper. Here at Co.Design, we're notebook fetishists, so we recently asked a slew of...
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The Seinfeld Of Sketchbooks Is A Notebook About Nothing
What makes us creative? Nothing, says Seema Sharma. Instead of a stifling void, she views nothingness as the wellspring of creativity, which is why she created Write Nothing in Here, a doodle and...
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The Surprising Punctuation Habits Of Famous Authors, Visualized
As writers, we're endlessly fascinated by the idiosyncrasies of authors and the way they use punctuation. Yet how much can the way authors use punctuation really reveal about their style? Plenty, it...
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Pentagram Puts Polish On The Spirit Awards' Indie Cred
For more than 30 years, the Film Independent Spirit Awards has been held a day or two before the Oscars to recognize the independent films and filmmakers all too often overlooked by the Academy...
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154 Shakespearean Sonnets, Visualized As Elizabethan-Era Emoji
In addition to his 38 classic plays, William Shakespeare also wrote 154 sonnets that gave the world some of his most memorable lines ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"). In Sonnet Signatures,...
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More Than A Beautiful Shell: Rebranding The World's Most Iconic Building
Since construction was completed in 1973, the Sydney Opera House has become one of the most iconic buildings in the world. Over 8 million people a year take a picture in front of the building's...
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A Subscription Box For People Who Want Less Stuff And Better Design
Splitting her time between Los Angeles, New York, and Berlin, Aja Edmond isn't just a minimalist by choice: luggage only being so large, she's one by necessity. And she doesn't think she's alone....
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5 Design Ideas For Developing A Healthier Relationship With Technology
As technology takes over our lives, we're all trying to figure out a balance between our always-on mindsets and healthy, mindful living. Unread Messages is a new exhibition at London's Aram Gallery...
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The Afterlife Of Atomic City, A Nuclear Ghost Town
Atomic City, Idaho: located at the edge of an 890-square mile nuclear complex, Atomic City was once called Midway—until the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant, Experimental...
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Microsoft's Experimental Keyboard Aims To Solve A Major Mobile UX Problem
On your laptop, apps exist in a grid. You can drag a link, a contact, or some text from one app into another. On a smartphone, though, apps pile on top of each other as a stack: You can only deal with...
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MIT Grew A Solar Cell Light Enough To Slap On Just About Anything
Solar cells are a great way of collecting and storing energy to power gadgets. There's just one problem: they're heavy. A typical silicon-based solar module can only produce about 15 watts of power per...
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How A Designer's 3-Year-Old Daughter Is Humanizing Google
Whether you use OK Google, Siri, Alexa, or Cortana, you reach a point, sooner or later, when your voice assistant doesn't know what to do.Sometimes, that's because you've phrased your command in an...
View ArticleVisualizing China's Corruption Crackdown
Corruption is a serious issue for any government, but in the last few years, China has swept tens of thousands of "corrupt" government officials out of office. Whether or not these officials are...
View ArticleThis Impossibly Intricate Dress Was 3-D Printed In A Single Go
Nervous Systems is a generative design studio founded by MIT alums known for merging the natural world with 3-D printed fashion. For its latest project, the studio teamed up with Boston's Museum of...
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The Toxic Remains Of America's Most Polluted City
There are ghost towns, and then there are ghost towns. Picher is the latter.Once a bustling center for lead and zinc mining, this Oklahoma town was poisoned by the industry that once made it thrive....
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This Light-Emitting Pavilion Looks Like A Web From An Alien World
As a generative designer, Jenny Sabin doesn't go into a project knowing exactly what's going to come out of it. She's more interested in the materials and math that go into creating a sculpture than in...
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