Glitches Turn Video Games Into Sublime Art
Most people throw their controllers when a glitch ruins a perfectly good game of Half Life or Grand Theft Auto. Robert Overweg loves it; he turns it into art.
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A Neighborhood Revival Starts With a New Public Library
As budget cuts chop library programs out of schools, public libraries are becoming increasingly important in their roles to educate entire communities. But they also serve another purpose as town squares for neighborhoods--places where people can come together and share ideas. The new Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library, which opened this month in Washington, D.C., hopes to become the center of the neighborhood by adding uses that reach beyond reading, and creating a dynamic space that transcends the typical tomb-like library setting.
Ghostly LEDs to Electrify Madison Square Park
Madison Square Park has seen everything from human heartbeats projected as laser beams through the trees to life-sized figures pitched off surrounding roofs as if ready to leap to a gorgeously gruesome death. Now, the Manhattan park -- which has one of the best, if eeriest, public-art programs around -- is being transformed into an electrified ghost land.
Wanted: Beautiful Rings, Made With Lasers and 3-D Computer Models
Fresh from the New York Gift Fair, hyper-talented design-duo Silva/Bradshaw has shared with us their newest wares: A line of rings, which look painstakingly crafted, are actually made using cutting-edge modern manufacturing. And imagine this: they're affordable, with prices starting at $24 (although ranging up to $600 for the largest pieces in 14k gold).
Infographic of the Day: Robots Will Save Your Aging Economy
So there's not a whole we have to add to this infographic. Except that it's about the impending ROBOT INVASION.
In all seriousness, though, the chart, by Focus and drawn from a 2008 study on robots invading the workplace, is pretty fascinating once you dig into the details. You get, for example, an excellent chart of robot density and another one showing exactly how many jobs various industries have lost to robots:
Forget Praying to the Muse: Create Design Magic on Demand
Designer Ravi Sawhney, CEO of the California-based design firm RKS (pictured above), and business strategist Deepa Prahalad, say that any design team can come up with emotionally resonant goods on a regular basis, if they're mindful of a few basic principles. In their new book, Predictable Magic, Prahalad and Sawhney map out a process for replicable design success. Think of it as magic on demand.
A Manmade Oasis: Scam or Sustainable Dream?
Can any project be green if it fights against the natural environment?
That appears to be what Klingmann Architects--which doubles as a branding firm--is doing with the Khawr Awqad project, a sustainable residential community and eco-resort designed for Salalah, Oman.
Klingmann describes Khawr Awqad as "surrounded by residential communities and luscious green agricultural fields to the north and east and the expanse of the Arabian Sea to the south and east...a unique destination with a focus on eco-literacy and education, eco-tourism, and sustainable green living."
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