Clever Branding Makes a Food Co-op Less Crunchy, More Sexy
The People's Supermarket in London is your classic hippie-dippie food co-op. But you'd never guess it, thanks to a fantastic branding scheme from the British design firm Unreal.
Nussbaum: Our Politics Are at Odds With Gen Y Values
Written by: Bruce Nussbaum
Fewer than 9% of eligible voters who belong to the Gen Y demographic chose to vote on November 2. This is an extraordinarily low turnout for a generation poised to replace the dominant Boomers in size and social clout. Increasingly, Gen Y is shaping Americas cultural and economic future. But will it also shape the country's politics? Which is the anomaly: the very large Gen Y turnout for Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election or the tiny turnout in the 2010 mid-term elections for Congress?
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In X-Mas Art Project, Your Gestures Control a Magical Light Show [Video]
Lima, Peru, totally has the year's best Christmas display. Spread over a vast public square, DJ Light is a freshly built art installation that lets visitors conduct their own tripped-out, mind-screwy light and sound shows with nothing more than a wave of the hand. Candy ravers everywhere just swallowed their pacifiers.
Round Robot Vac Rolls Where Roombas Can’t Go
What do you get when you combine Dyson's "never too many prototypes" appliance-design philosophy with Roomba's "never too many robots in the house" engineering? The Dust Ball, a cute, clutter-eating robot that looks like a futuristic vacuum crossed with a Tribble.
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Lori Nix’s Stunning, Tiny Dioramas Depict an Abandoned World [Slideshow]
For some reason, human beings can't get enough of imagining our own destruction.
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Bill Moggridge, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jimmy Wales on the Future of Media Design [Videos]
Print isn't dead, Designing Media, a fascinating new doorstop of a book by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum chief Bill Moggridge, seems to say. It's just waiting for design to save it.
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Infographics of the Day: Amid Climate Change, Some Countries Luck Out
What follows just might be the most succinct, elegant summary of global warming's impacts ever created.
