A Brilliant Touchpad Mouse for Touching Yourself [SFW Video]
Famous designers love doing vibrators. Designing them, we mean!
Famous designers love doing vibrators. Designing them, we mean!
Summer ends today, which means we must all go back to our humdrum all-work autumnal lives. But not until we cover one final bastion of warm-weather play: Slides!
Slide@T3 claims to be the tallest in Singapore
Jaywalking: Everyone does it, so you might as well legalize it. But is there any way to make it less dangerous?
Design to the rescue! Korean designer Jae Min Lim has the clever idea to turn crosswalks into, well, “J”s. By curving the typical Zebra crossing to take up a wider swath of road, you carve out a nice, safe path for pedestrians -- one that reflects how they actually walk.
[Product designer and former Pentagram associate partner Stefanie Kubanek recently returned from the mammoth Venice Architecture Biennale, and filed this report. — Ed.]
The 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale opened last Sunday, and for the first time in history, the show is directed by a woman: Kazuyo Sejima, who co-won the Pritzker Prize this year.
We just got word that Samuel Macon and Faythe Levine have uploaded a beautiful video documenting the process of creating this piece. Check it out below. — Ed.
The infographic you see here has managed to turn one of the ugliest facets of global cities into something approaching art. Behold urban sprawl, in the hands of Jessica Young and Luke Bulman.
Young and Bulman make up the Brooklyn graphic design studio Thumb, and their beautiful, though perhaps misleading, infographic compares 27 ring roads around the world -- those peripheral highways, like the D.C. Beltway or the London Orbital, that read like shorthand for over-extended cities.
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