Infographic of the Day

Infographic Of The Day: The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Plotted

Infographic Of The Day: The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Plotted

Okay, we admit it: Here at Co.Design, we're Tolkien geeks. Like straight up read-the-Silmarillion-grew-up-playing-the-RPG Tolkien geeks. So it's with a flutter of nerd love that we introduce today's IGOTD, created by University of Florida student JT Fridsma: A minute-by-minute plotting of the various scenes and parallel plots in Peter Jackson's film adaptation.

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An Office Where Huge Mirrors Solve Old Problems While Reflecting The Past

An Office Where Huge Mirrors Solve Old Problems While Reflecting The Past

Adapting old buildings for contemporary use is one of the thorniest design problems around. Balancing the needs, both aesthetic and functional, of modern life with the labyrinthine imperatives of historic preservation can be an elaborate, protracted dance -- one to which Elding Oscarson knows all the steps.

A carefully placed mirrored wall to reflects the imperfections and ravages of time.

Aiming To Become Iconic, A Houston Museum Morphs Its Building Into A Logo

Aiming To Become Iconic, A Houston Museum Morphs Its Building Into A Logo

The Guggenheim Bilbao, San Francisco's DeYoung, New York's Whitney -- all are museums that have identities inextricably linked to their buildings and the architects who gave them shape (Frank Gehry, Herzog & deMeuron, and Marcel Breuer, respectively). You may know squat about art, but odds are you can pick Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Guggenheim out of a lineup. Can you say the same of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston? Unless you live in Houston, probably not. That isn't stopping the CAMH from trying to remix the building, as the basis for its rebranding campaign.

Wanted: A Stand That Lets You Get More From Your iPhone

Wanted: A Stand That Lets You Get More From Your iPhone

Who knew the iPhone would spur an entire industry of dongles, stands, cases and converters -- most of them dashed off in plastic, many overpriced, nearly all crap? The Oona is one antidote. It's a moderately priced piece of machined aluminum with three screw-on suction cups, configurable in all sorts of clever ways to hold your iPhone to any smooth surface around (and still allow comfortable typing). Better yet, it's downright handsome compared to its competitors like, ahem, this thing.