“Parallax,” A Mind-Bending Game Where You Leap Between Parallel Worlds
Zi Ye and Jesse Burstyn’s creation looks like Portal mashed up with Sin City.
Zi Ye and Jesse Burstyn’s creation looks like Portal mashed up with Sin City.
Vertical gardens can improve air quality, decrease energy consumption, and shield buildings from harsh weather. Less familiar? Vertical gardens can also ward off evil spirits.
There are resourceful designers. And then there’s mischer’traxler, a young Austrian design studio that took an old grandfather clock and managed to slice it, dice it, and rework it into nine--count ‘em, nine!--fresh, stylish pieces of furniture.
The objects in One Piece, One Edition are part of a retrospective of the designers’ work at Novalis Fine Arts in Turin.
And does that mean we’ll have something like 60 billion people by 2300?!
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From movies releases to reopened museums, everyone’s banking on the date’s typographic appeal.
Almost certainly not. But a fantastic map by Mother Jones points out that nuclear power is all around us (okay, some of us).
Chris Harrison’s prototype anticipates the day when touchscreen dominate, and when we have to demand more of them.
"Nano House," a new book by Phyllis Richardson, compiles outstanding examples of small-scale living.
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