Designed by Ernst Giselbrecht + Partner, Kiefer Technic Showroom features a shapeshifting facade that actually moves according to the weather conditions. The building’s exterior face consists of glass and 112 perforated aluminum tiles. Read more…Mor…
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Now that Jony Ive is done designing iPhone-inspired toilets, he could make Apple products great again
Apple’s Chief Design Officer Jony Ive is back in charge of the company’s product design teams, according to a Bloomberg report.
And that could mean really great things for the company’s future products.
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Protect your feet and stay comfortable with these second skin covers
These Iguaneye shoes can conform to your feet. The design was inspired by Amazonian Indians who used to dip their feet in liquid rubber and smoked them to create shoes. Iguaneye claims to be hygienic, comfortable, and secure. Read more…More ab…
View More Protect your feet and stay comfortable with these second skin coversThis designer is turning every object in your home into a solar power generator
Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel has designed windows and a table that uses colored solar cells to convert sunlight into electricity. Her ultimate goal, however, is to all surfaces capable of harvesting solar energy, just like flowers. Read more…Mor…
View More This designer is turning every object in your home into a solar power generatorThis water bottle never needs to be cleaned
The QUARTZ Bottle uses UV technology to neutralize bacteria so you’ll never have a stinky water bottle again. Read more…More about Kickstarter, Design, Mashable Video, Bottle, and Water Bottle
View More This water bottle never needs to be cleanedThe man behind some of America’s most recognisable logos, Ivan Chermayeff, has died
Ivan Chermayeff mightn’t have been a household name, but his work certainly was.
Born in London, the American graphic designer died on Saturday, aged 85. With a career spanning six decades, Chermayeff’s legacy varies between poster art, illustration,…
Earthquake-proof, book-filled home is a bookworm’s dream
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This wall-to-wall bookshelf has an additional neat trick — it’s made to withstand earthquakes.
The clever design from Japanese architects Shinsuke Fujii features a home with ample — and we mean ample — shelf space, covering one wall of the house.
But to keep its contents from falling off in the event of an earthquake, the shelf leans inwards at a slant.
Best of all, the lean means you won’t even need a ladder to reach its top. Simply climb it and stand on each rack to get what you need.
Image: SHINSUKE FUJII ARCHITECTS Read more…
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View More Earthquake-proof, book-filled home is a bookworm’s dreamA design studio is reducing a city’s plastic waste by using it to print street furniture.
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A design studio, called The New Raw is experimenting with using plastic waste as a raw material that can be used by 3D printers to create furniture. Their project called Print Your City aims to solve plastic’s biggest design problem—a material made to last forever, but used carelessly in a throwaway culture. Read more…
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View More A design studio is reducing a city’s plastic waste by using it to print street furniture.‘Homed’ project could house New York’s homeless in clustered, honeycomb-like pods
Both land and affordable housing are becoming scarcer in New York City, with skyrocketing rents and, subsequently, a steadily increasing population of people who are homeless.
But a new project aims to capitalise on the city’s surplus of “vertical la…
‘Substitute Phone’ artfully satisfies your compulsion to swipe and scroll
Smartphones are inarguably an addictive class of devices, and not just because they put an endless font of information at your fingertips. The experience of holding the phone and touching it is itself associated with that pleasure — so much so that you might wish you were doing it even when you don’t want to actually use the phone. That’s when you need one of these… Read More
13 blunt and sweary Christmas cards for your greatest frenemy
Christmas cards are boring, aren’t they?
Santa. Reindeers. Trees and baubles. It’s always the same, every year. We might as well just do away with all together, right?
Well, maybe all hope is not lost.
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How the Kindle was designed through 10 years and 15 generations
Amazon’s Chris Green, VP of Design at its Lab126 hardware arm, talked with me for a retrospective of the design choices that have defined and redefined the device, and the reasoning behind them. Green has been at Lab126 for a long time, but not quite for the entire Kindle project, as he explained to me.
“My first day at Amazon was the day the Kindle launched – November 19, 2007. Read More