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Why Apple Is Teaching Kids To Code On The iPad
At Apple's annual Worldwide Developer's Conference yesterday, one announcement garnered more applause than pretty much everything else combined. It wasn't iOS 10, or the latest version of OS X (now...
View ArticleIKEA's New Ads Are Straight Out Of An Ingmar Bergman Film
IKEA's Swedish sensibility usually lends itself to cheery, colorful ads, but to advertise its new Sinnerlig collection, the flat pack mega-retailer is going noir.The new campaign was done by commercial...
View ArticleBeyond The Whiteboard: Rethinking How Business Schools Teach Design
"Design thinking" has become the watchword for an entire generation of MBAs who think that becoming the next Steve Jobs is as easy as a whiteboard filled with disruptive ideation. "This broad...
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Could Traffic Lights For Food Help You Stop Eating Garbage?
Stoplights regulate car and pedestrian traffic. Could they also be used to regulate the food we eat?Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania conducted a study to...
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9 Poster Designs For Legendary Films Hollywood Never Made
Of the dozen or so unrealized projects film auteur Stanley Kubrick left behind at his death, none is as legendary as Napoleon—a historical opus about the French emperor that the director originally...
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Oculus Finally Gets Controllers Suitable For Manipulating Virtual Worlds
Next-gen virtual reality reality headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are still hobbled by their dependence upon decidedly less-gen controllers, like the Xbox One's. At this year's E3 expo,...
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Inspired By Stonehenge, MIT Floats A 2,000-Pound Megalith On Water
No one knows for sure how the megaliths of Stonehenge were erected 5,000 years ago. With each stone weighing between two and fifty tons, how were these massive weights transported from quarries as much...
View ArticleWhy Designers Should Be A Little More Shameless
Co.Design has partnered with the Brooklyn design studio Hyperakt to bring you Lunch Talks, a video series of conversations with smart, creative people.—EdsJustin Gignac is the cofounder of Working Not...
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Uh-Oh, Mozilla Is Open-Sourcing Its New Logo Design
Everyone has heard of Firefox, the world's second most popular web browser. Fewer people have heard of Mozilla, the nonprofit organization behind Firefox, and even fewer could tell you what makes...
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NASA Borrows From The WPA To Recruit A Workforce For Mars
The greatest period of construction in American history was also marked by one of the greatest periods of graphic design. I'm speaking, of course, of the work that the Works Progress Administration did...
View ArticleTo Master Branding, "Build Patterns Not Stamps"
Co.Design has partnered with the Brooklyn design studio Hyperakt to bring you Lunch Talks, a video series of conversations with smart, creative people.—EdsSince 2008, diary-loving Jonny Naismith has...
View ArticleThis Neural Network's Emoji Game Is Stronger Than Yours
Right now, there are 1,851 emojis supported by the Unicode Consortium, including everything from a purple eggplant to a ghost with its tongue sticking out. That's roughly 10 times as many symbols as...
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Christo's Floating Piers Were 50 Years And $17 Million In The Making
After nearly fifty years of planning, 81-year-old Bulgarian-American artist Christo has finally realized The Floating Piers, a two-mile walkway of undulating gold that will allow visitors to step, like...
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Coral Sculptures Show How The World's Reefs Are Dying Out
With the Great Barrier Reef suffering the worst mass bleaching event in history, climate change could kill off the world's coral reefs for good by the end of the century. When that happens, Courtney...
View ArticleDesigners Should Talk More Openly About Money
Co.Design has partnered with the Brooklyn design studio Hyperakt to bring you Lunch Talks, a video series of conversations with smart, creative people.—EdsArmin Vit is the cofounder of Under...
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How One Newspaper Visualized The Orlando Massacre With Sensitivity
Early in the morning on June 12, just a few hours after 29-year-old Omar Mateen stood under the throbbing houselights of the Pulse nightclub and first began firing a semi-automatic rifle into the...
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How North Saved The Tate's Iconic Logo From Itself
Consisting of four bold, balloon-like caps smeared together to look like they are blurring in and out of focus, the Tate logo designed by Wolff Olins in 2000 might be one of the most recognizable...
View ArticleHow Good F***ing Design Advice Became A Great F***ing Brand
Co.Design has partnered with the Brooklyn design studio Hyperakt to bring you Lunch Talks, a video series of conversations with smart, creative people.—Eds.In 2010, designers Brian Buirge and Jason...
View ArticleIvanka Trump Accused Of Copying Shoe Design
Gaseous orange gonad and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has a reputation for being a man designers hate to work for, which goes a long way toward explaining those hats. Meanwhile,...
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Google Created Its Own Laws of Robotics
In his famous Robot series of stories and novels, Isaac Asimov created the fictional Laws of Robotics, which read:A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come...
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