Shane Crozier's Flux E-Desk looks like something straight out of the future. Think Minority Report, think Blade Runner, think kindergarten circa 2025; this is what I, and I'd imagine Shane, could see school desks looking like in another 15 to…
Continue Reading →Taisei Construction Corporation has designed a 13,000 ft, Star Wars-esque structure for possible development in Tokyo. The 6-square kilometer building would house anywhere from 500,000 to one million residents, follow contemporary green planning outlines, and would incorporate the means to…
Continue Reading →Portland is getting another storage facility, and you're probably thinking, "just what America needs...more mini storage," but in this case, hell yes! The proposed Portland City Storage facility will likely be the most energy efficient storage facility in the world,…
Continue Reading →Both Josh and I have written in the past about the open-source image and animation programming language called Processing. In those earlier posts, you'll find links to several neat-looking doodads made with Processing. The real trick with any new technology,…
Continue Reading →In the category of slick websites without a whole lot on them, we have taekioh.com, the portfolio site for designer Taeki Oh. Between the clicking menus and the porn-groove soundtrack, Oh has a real doozy on his hands. There is…
Continue Reading →I'm already a sucker for gorgeous time trial bikes (as evidenced by my drooling over the Project .05 a while back), and with the Tour De France likely to come down to the final time trial stage to determine the…
Continue Reading →I can't tell you about the entirely frustrating battle that my garden pavers and I had against these mutant, pain-in-the-ass dandelions back in California. It didn't matter what I did -- sprays, praying to whatver gardening gods would listen, digging…
Continue Reading →There's something at MIT, wouldn't you know it, called the Aesthetics + Computation Group, whose aim is "the design of advanced system architectures and thought processes to enable the creation of (as yet) unimaginable forms and spaces." Two thoughts. First,…
Continue Reading →Being such a huge cheerleader for industrial design rockstar Eion McNally (as well as his sometime co-conspirator, Ian Walton), I get super-excited when I get wind of any new project he's got going on -- and I wasn't at all…
Continue Reading →Paul Isabella is a furniture design student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and judging from his current portfolio, it looks like a sunny future is in store for this gifted newbie. Isabella's work stems from "impressions in…
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