Sneaker designer Jeff Staple is responsible for creating one of the most valuable sneakers ever with the Nike Pigeon Dunks. The shoes’ limited release caused a riot in 2005 that needed NYPD assistance. Read more…More about Fashion, Design, Mashable…
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Microsoft gives Office a refreshed look and feel
Microsoft today announced that it’s bringing a new user interface design to its Office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. This new look will be in line with the Fluent Design System the company launched last year and will roll out to both the Office.com online apps and the Office desktop tools over the […]
View More Microsoft gives Office a refreshed look and feelEuropean city to 3D print world first housing project
The Dutch city of Eindhoven is building the first 3D printed housing project, consisting of five homes that will be constructed consecutively over the course of the next couple of years. Read more…More about Design, House, 3d Printing, Univer…
View More European city to 3D print world first housing projectHow bike-share companies protect their fleet against vandalism, abuse
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It can be tough out there as a bicycle in a bike-share fleet, endlessly unlocked via an app, pedaled around and then left behind before the whole process repeats itself.
The companies behind the growing trend of bike-sharing optimize the vehicles for high frequency use — but on top of that, the bikes need even more protection from vandals.
The shared bikes get used a lot more than your average bicycle, so durability is an issue on top of any tampering. Bike-share company Ofo has logged more than 32 million rides globally. Jump bikes, the red e-bike-share Uber recently acquired, have about six trips every day per bicycle in San Francisco. The average bike trip is just over a half mile. Read more…
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View More How bike-share companies protect their fleet against vandalism, abuseRobots can build entire cities almost for free. These architects are making it happen.
Manuel Jimenez Garcia and Gilles Retsin are literally setting the foundations for an architecture of the future. They are co-founders of the Design Computation Lab at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where they work with…
View More Robots can build entire cities almost for free. These architects are making it happen.This designer wants to turn lab-grown leather into your next jacket
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Suzanne Lee is a designer and the chief creative officer with Modern Meadow, where they are working to biofabricate leather, which means to literally grow leather in a lab without the animal. Lee and her team are working side-by-side with scientists to take these new materials and turn them into functional, beautiful pieces of clothing, furniture, and accessories. Working at the junction of biotech and design, she’s truly helping forge the future in her industry. Read more…
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View More This designer wants to turn lab-grown leather into your next jacketThis slick looking device is the world’s first modular hearing aid
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The world’s first modular hearing aid is here, and it could change the game for people with total or partial hearing loss.
Melbourne-based hearing aid designers Blamey Saunders won Australia’s prestigious Good Design Award of the Year and the CSIRO Design Innovation Award for their groundbreaking device, dubbed Facett, at a glitzy ceremony at Sydney Opera House on Thursday.
SEE ALSO: Stream directly from your iPhone to your cochlear implant sound processor with this device and app
So, what makes this hearing aid different to other models? The device works with a core, linked to an app, and is powered by a rechargeable module, which magnetically clicks into place — for anyone who’s tried to change a hearing aid battery in the dark, or had to have someone else change it for them, this is pretty neat. Read more…
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View More This slick looking device is the world’s first modular hearing aidThese bricks are made out of desert sand, but are as strong as concrete
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After air and water, usable sand is the natural resource that we use the most of. It’s what entire cities are made of and it’s running out.
A group of students in London have found a way to bind desert sand – which is abundant but useless in construction because it’s too fine and round – into a new biodegradable composite material, called “Finite,” which is as strong as concrete. Read more…
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View More These bricks are made out of desert sand, but are as strong as concreteHow 3D printing is revolutionizing the housing industry
If you build it, they will come. And if you 3D-print it, they will come faster, cheaper and more sustainably.
View More How 3D printing is revolutionizing the housing industryThis sculptor combines art with geometry to create unique shapeshifting mechanisms
Ivan Black is a British sculptor specializing in large kinetic works of art. His art is based on unique mechanisms he builds from scratch. Read more…More about Art, Design, Sculpture, Britain, and Wind
View More This sculptor combines art with geometry to create unique shapeshifting mechanismsIt’s spring cleaning season, so people are talking about kanso. What is it?
Spring cleaning season is in full swing, so it’s no shock that people are searching for ways to simplify their spaces. One idea the internet is talking about: the Japanese concept of kanso.
Of course, kanso is not new. It’s an aesthetic principle tha…
Bring on museum companion apps — but only if they’re absolutely awesome
On a weekday afternoon in the Greek and Roman sculpture hall at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was, to my surprise, the only visitor on my phone.
The long gallery was fairly empty, but it was oddly devoid of the usual selfie-takers and Insta…