Making It
Nike Invents A “Shoe” For Athletes With Prosthetic Limbs
The company’s innovation lab worked with marathoner Sarah Reinertsen to fill a market that’s ordinarily too small to attract serious R&D.
Kartell Reissues Joe Colombo’s Revolutionary 4801 Plywood Chair—In Plastic
Why remake it in a less sustainable material? Because that’s how the company would have done it if the right technology had existed in the first place.
Design Crime
Madrid Launches 2020 Olympic Bid And Gets Gored For Laughable Logo
Wait, does that say "20020"?! Design FAAIL!
From 3XN, A Hotel That’s A Proving Ground For The Latest Green Tech
The Green Solution House, a hotel and conference center slated for the Danish island of Bornholm, will be an evolving experiment that reflects "the highest level of sustainable development” possible.
A Mirrored Installation Lets You Crawl Up Walls Like Spider-Man
"Bâtiment (Building)" uses simple mirrors instead of digital trickery to create a vertigo-inducing illusion.
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Forget Roomba. How About A Robot That Warms And Cools Your House?
With the help of built-in sensors and phase change material, of course.
How Plywood Revolutionized Design And Changed The World (No, Really!)
There was something of the occult in the way people talked about plywood. Take the Eameses, who called their plywood-molding apparatus the “Kazam!” machine or the “magic box.”
Wanna Figure Out If Your Product Is Any Good? Think Like A News Editor
Determining whether an idea is newsworthy helps you formulate the story you want to tell from the outset, writes Paddy Harrington of Bruce Mau Design.
Making It
Could A Rebranding Help Give Teachers The Prestige They Deserve?
The Brooklyn-based design studio Hyperakt schools teachers on honing their image through branding.
