Wanted: A High-Tech High Heel Worthy Of NASA

Wanted: A High-Tech High Heel Worthy Of NASA

Creating a product for lunar travel means ultimate attention paid to mass, volume, and versatility. The Moon Life, created by United Nude -- the shoe company of Rem D. Koolhaas, big Rem's nephew -- isn't rocket-bound anytime soon, but it makes you wonder what our earthly products would look like if every designer were so economical.

A Beautiful Typeface Made Of Running Ink [Slideshow]

A Beautiful Typeface Made Of Running Ink [Slideshow]

Type design is traditionally the province of the uber-anal. The constraints for creating legible letterforms from scratch are very, very strict. Until, sometimes, they aren't -- as in the case of Ruslan Khasanov, who was cleaning an ink brush in the sink one evening and noticed that if he painted the letterforms directly onto the porcelain and photographed them before they ran down the drain, the letters came out looking sublime.