7 Ingenious DIY Designs You Can Make At Home

7 Ingenious DIY Designs You Can Make At Home

Samuel Bernier’s Project RE_ is a playful enigma. On the one hand, there is a clear aesthetic thread that runs through each project’s final form--it’s not hard to imagine spending far too much to buy these things at a high-end boutique. On the other hand, they are all made from household objects and the steps to making them are freely available online.

It seems that Bernier is at home in this enigma. Project RE_ is an academic work, part of Bernier’s graduation project at the University of Montreal.

Designers: Help Me Rebrand American Innovation

Designers: Help Me Rebrand American Innovation

“We have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge." Last October, critics seized on this controversial declaration by President Barack Obama in San Francisco. But maybe he was right after all. We remain ambitious and imaginative, yet as the president correctly noted, our cultural willingness to make investments in discovery and new technologies has become too anemic. Americans are undeniably ambitious and imaginative--arguably inventing more, discovering more, producing more, and helping more than any people in history.

Exhibition Explores How Models Made People Gaga For Modern Architecture

Exhibition Explores How Models Made People Gaga For Modern Architecture

There’s something delightful and intriguing about buildings (and neighborhoods, and even entire imaginary worlds) rendered in miniature. Once we can physically handle the models, we feel we can grasp the concepts behind them. An exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) examines our fascination with architectural models and how photography fed our demand.

Model-making came back into vogue in the 1920s following a period of decline sparked by the Beaux-Arts crowd, who preferred drawing.