All of these images were created in DMesh, a project by Dofl Yun that automatically generates triangle meshes using Delaunay triangulation. You may recognize the aesthetic, as a number of other artists have worked with triangle meshes, but where DMesh shines is in the automation.
DMesh started as a tool to allow people without a design background to make creative images easily.
Add this to the list of “cool stuff designers can do with crap you’d normally toss in the recycling bin”: Turn egg cartons into stylish little lamps.
That’s how Brooklyn designer Victor Vetterlein made Trash Me, a desk lamp for the Danish furniture company &Tradition. First, he hand-molded paper pulp from recycled egg cartons.
Late last year, Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology won a hotly anticipated contest to build a graduate science and engineering campus on a sleepy island just east of Manhattan. It was widely hailed as an unlikely triumph--cooler, techier Stanford had been the front-runner--brought off by an ambitious mix of cash promises, strategic partnerships, and vigorous alumni support.
I used to live by the Hoyt-Schermerhorn stop in the New York subway system, which is famous for having a disused platform that movie productions use to stage scenes (the music video for Bad, directed by Martin Scorsese, was shot there). But there are whole other "lost" stations in the MTA system that few people know about--not to mention entire subway lines that were planned, but never built. What would that alternate-universe NYC subway system map look like? This.
The feminine hygiene industry likes to think that it’s come pretty far in the past few years, and in a way it has. Used to be, you couldn’t buy a box of tampons that wasn’t plastered in breezy pastels and whimsical cursive.
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There are a lot of things you might say about an Android phone--that it’s more powerful than the iPhone, more customizable, better integration with Google services. But one thing you probably wouldn’t say about an Android phone is that you love it--can’t-live-without-it, rip-it-out-of-my-cold-dead-hands love it. When Matias Duarte (the designer behind the T-Mobile Sidekick and Palm’s WebOS) joined Google a year-and-a-half ago as senior director for Android user experience, he set out to change that.
But Duarte has been around the block a few times.
Last we talked to Paul Sahre, he was telling us about the handsome, quietly designed box set he made of Malcolm Gladwell’s best-selling books. But just in case you thought Sahre was some kind of tweedy churchmouse, he’s just told us about the new project that he’s been working on for four months: an enormous monster truck hearse.
Whenever someone follows brand communications agency Uniform's Twitter account, a toy train inside a cuckoo clock shoves a gumball out the door onto a circuitous track. When the gumball comes to rest, it’s available for studio members to consume.
Smartphones are the epitome of planned obsolescence. If you don’t upgrade your phone every two years, you’re likely to be left out in the cold as software outpaces its capabilities. But all you really need to do is upgrade the phone’s brain, not its whole body. What if there were a smartphone whose body was designed to let this kind of modular upgrading happen? Julius Tarng has created one called Modai. It’s only a concept design, not a working prototype or a shipping product, but I wish it were.
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