We admit to being totally mystified by people who buy Apple products then muck them up with obnoxious decorative stuff in the name of “personalization.” It’s like painting zebra stripes on a Porsche. It just shouldn’t be done.
New York architects Thomas Phifer and Partners have sent us photographs of a lovely new house in the Hudson Valley. From the pictures, it doesn't look like a house at all, but a pair of organza curtains that happen to have people living between them.
OLEDs have been hailed as the Next Big Thing in lighting for years now. But beyond digital picture frames and bendy display screens that make Gumby look like a slab of concrete, we haven’t seen a whole lot from the tech that’s supposed to revolutionize the way we illuminate our world.
Can the carrot industry sex up its image by branding baby carrots as a munchworthy junk food a la Cheetos or Lay's Potato Chips? Crispin Porter + Bogusky seems to think so.
The high-profile ad agency is launching an ambitious $25 million campaign to help the carrot industry compete with the junk food industry. The campaign is being launched with the help of almost 50 carrot growers, including carrot behemoth Bolthouse Farms.
Just shy of 36 years old, Bjarke Ingels is, without a doubt, the most precocious contemporary architect on the international scene today. And his firm, BIG -- short for Bjarke Ingels Group -- is about to become even more prominent. After several splashy commissions in their home-base of Denmark, the firm is now opening a New York office that will work on several high-profile projects in the city, including a high-rise condo in Manhattan and other, big-time commissions that remain confidential for now.
A paradox of the relentless march of technological innovation is that is has made us more dependent than ever on a distinctly ancient human resource: our eyes. Cell phones in particular increasingly eschew ISO number pads and even QWERTY keyboards for touch screens -- a problem for anyone who either can’t see or who texts while doing something else (driving, sitting in class, out on a terrifically bad date, etc.), which is, oh, pretty much everyone. Enter Tactile Texting.
![Can St. Louis’s Arch Become a True Gateway, Rather Than a Black Hole? [Updated with VIDEO]](/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/642x368/Behnisch-Team-Museum-View-Full-1.jpg "Can St. Louis’s Arch Become a True Gateway, Rather Than a Black Hole? [Updated with VIDEO]")
St. Louis's biggest urban design problem is so obvious that it's visible from a plane. At the center of the city, its star, Eero Saarinen's 1965 masterpiece, the 630-foot Gateway Arch, easily one of the most stunning and unusual architectural triumphs of all time. Surrounding the Arch, 91 acres of rolling lush green grass and mirror-like pools designed by Dan Kiley.
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