Maya Lin’s Rallying Cry Since The Vietnam Memorial: The Environment
Lin’s spare visual language gave the Vietnam Memorial its haunting power, and now she uses that vocabulary to speak out on environmental tragedies.
“Tunnel” iPad App Explores Subterranean Japan, And A New Era Of Coffee Table Book
This iPad app features some of the most dazzling shots of underground engineering that you’ve ever seen.
Infographic of the Day
An Infographic Sculpture Shows Ocean Waves, Thousands Of Miles Away
Tele-Present Water creates a automated puppet show based on a script generated by the ocean, half a planet away.
Never Lost: MIT Creates Wayfinding Arrows Projected From Your Cellphone
MIT’s Media Lab experiments with a new idea in personal navigation that works indoors, thanks to maps of a building’s magnetism.
SOM’s Giant Vertical Flower Pot Is An Air Purifier On Steroids
The Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, a collaboration between SOM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, develops a new way to harness the power of the almighty rhizosphere. The almighty wha? Read on.
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Xero Reinvents Accounting For Small Businesses, With Superb UI Design
Accounting is the one thing that every single business absolutely needs. Isn’t it time someone fixed the UI?
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The Magnificent Map Of Rap Names Charts Jazzy Jay To Z
Rap’s silliest names are backed by extremely specific nomenclature.
New Service Gives Any Job Seeker A Slick, Custom Resume
Who needs a degree from Harvard when you’ve got a great-looking resume? Okay, Harvard doesn’t hurt.
Making It
And The Oscar For Best Short Film Goes To … An iPad App
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is like a well-written bedtime story and an immersive animated movie at once.
The Innovator’s Blindspot: Even Your Best Ideas Will Fail If Your Partners Don’t Innovate Too
Written by: Ron Adner
Even the most brilliant innovation cannot succeed when its value depends on other innovations that fail to arrive on time, argues Ron Adner.
