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MIT Students Invent A Universal Language Made Of GIFs
Which GIF better expresses happiness? This one of Ren and Stimpy bouncing up and down, or this one of Lost's John Locke grinning with an orange slice in his mouth? Does your opinion change if Grumpy...
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An iWatch For Epileptics, With A Brilliant UI
So far, the future of wearables has been framed mostly in the context of fitness, but what will it mean for those afflicted with lifelong medical issues? Dialog, a new concept by Seattle-based...
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The Best Design Tools You're Not Using? Mischief And Subterfuge
Tickle is an app that is always running on the background of your iPhone. It has no UI, and just one purpose: to get you out of socially awkward situations by tracking your nervous twitching.When...
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Why The Next iPhone Should Have A Bigger Screen
What will the next iPhone look like when it is released in September after its first major redesign in two years? In a new concept, Sam Beckett, an independent concept designer, imagines a next-gen...
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How Reebok Became The Brand For Crossfit Junkies
Reebok is a 120-year-old brand, but it was only in the last 30 years that the sports apparel maker traded in its classic Union Jack logo for something new. Released in 1986, the vector logo abstracted...
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How To Make A Beer-Flavored Jelly Belly People Actually Want To Eat
In what could be the greatest thing to happen to drinking in public since the paper bag, Jelly Belly has invented a revolutionary new way to get around America's open container laws: put beer into a...
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A Key That Opens Everything (Except Doors)
Most people use their keys for opening more than just doors. In a pinch, we use them to pop tags off of our clothes, to open a new box from Amazon, to slice open letters, to cut twine and scratch the...
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A Printer That Develops Your iPhone Pics Into Lasting Polaroids
There are plenty of ways to turn an iPhone picture into a Polaroid-like print, from online services like Moo to portable Wi-Fi printers to Polaroid's own Socialmatic Android camera. The problem with...
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How The Creator Of NYC's Hated Subway Map Redesigned Our Nation's Parks
The mission of the National Park Service (NPS) isn't just to maintain America's national parks, monuments, and other sites of historical or conservational importance. It's also to impart to the average...
View Article4 Things We Learned From This Rare Interview With Apple Design God Jonathan Ive
Apple's rock star designer Jony Ive has given the Sunday Times (subscription required) a rare interview, talking about his partnership with Steve Jobs, his design philosophies, the importance of...
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Design Pirate Cody Foster Sues Urban Outfitters For Breach Of Contract
Cody Foster, the Valentine, Nebraska, tchotchke wholesaler that has been accused of stealing independent designers' work, is now suing a former retail partner that severed ties with the Nebraskan...
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Population Density, Mapped As Dripping Ooze
In The Matrix, Hugo Weaving's sinuous and serpentine Agent Smith makes an argument that human beings aren't actually mammals. They are a virus.I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my...
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This Glow-In-The-Dark Bike Could Save Your Life
As a cyclist, you're always only a blind spot away from being maimed or killed. As such, making yourself as visible as possible (especially at night) is your first line of defense against being reduced...
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This Desk Doubles As A Staircase
In most homes, staircases are, except when being used, just wasted space. Even in the home he built for himself, design legend Walter Gropius didn't solve the staircase problem: He just put a little...
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Type Connection Helps You Find Matching Typefaces
Deciding upon a single typeface to get your point across is easy, but figuring out which typefaces match is something even design experts often get wrong. How do you find the chocolate to Perpetua's...
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The Anatomy Of A Great Late-Night Logo, According To Pentagram
As part of her work designing a new logo for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Pentagram's Emily Oberman--a 20-year veteran in television branding and logo design--studied the entire galaxy of...
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Anti-Social Network Helps You Avoid People You Don't Want To See
There is no shortage of social media apps out there that will loudly broadcast to everyone where you are at every second of the day. Rarer is the app that exists to obfuscate you. This, though, is the...
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How The Television Academy Got Its Brand Mojo Back
Everyone knows the Oscars of television, the Emmy Awards, when the brightest and beautiful stars of our favorite soaps and sitcoms walk down the red carpet, mouthing the words of their acceptance...
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Japanese Designers Put A Friendly Face On The Humble Screw
In the gadget world, proprietary screws are anathema, el diablo. Used by the likes of Apple specifically to prevent customers from fixing their own devices (and thus, forcing them to pay much higher...
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This Two-Sided Colander Is A Bachelor's Dream
It's not every day that good design can make a difference in the lives of sloppy bachelors who never do the dishes, but Ole Jensen (a Danish designer we've previously covered for his line of plastic...
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