Cool Beans: The World’s Most Startling Starbucks Stores
As global gourmet coffee giant Starbucks prepares to open its 20,000th store, the world's largest coffeehouse corporation finds itself torn between the need to support its hard-earned brand ...
Month: September 2012
Amazing Aerogel: Strong as Steel, Light as Air
One of the world's most amazing materials wasn't created by nature - it was invented by a couple of scientists who made a silly bet. In 1931, Samuel Stephens Kistler and Charles Learned wanted to ...
Honey I Shrunk The City! Alan Wolfson’s Tiny Streets
Alan Wolfson is a master of the miniature. His urban sculptures are tiny, incredibly detailed views of the mundane city landmarks that urban citizens interact with on a daily basis. (Images ...
No Need for Directions with GPS Shoes to Guide Your Feet
Don't worry about crashing into poles, fellow pedestrians or vehicles due to staring at GPS instructions on your smartphone screen - just follow your shoes. British designer Dominic Wilcox ...
Award-Winning Small Projects Show How Less is More
Architecture doesn't have to be grand to be impressive, as the six winners of the 2011 AIA Small Project Awards demonstrate. Ranging from a tiny tea house to a colorful walkway at a New York City ...
World’s Smallest House? 1 Sq M of Mobile Living Space
In the last 30 years, the size of a typical home in the United States has shot up from under 1000 square feet to nearly 2500. It begs the question: how much room to we really need in order to ...
Retro Fits: 15 Hacks & Mods Take iPads Back in Time
The iPad is one of Apple's most successful products in recent years, and for good reason. It's an innovative, easy-to-use, and fun bit of technology that everyone can enjoy, from babies to cats ...
Tiny Toothpick Art Goes Far Behind Merely Miniature
A toothpick replica of the Eiffel Tower is impressive enough - but one San Francisco artist takes it much further than that, using shards of a single toothpick to build amazingly tiny, detailed ...
Giant-Sized Stabbing Scenes: Street Art at Knife Point
At first glance, these scenes are disturbing: a man and a woman lay immobile on sidewalks, streets and stairwells, pools of red gushing from their abdomens. But then you realize that the weapon ...
Gray Ghost: Banksy’s Arch-Nemesis or Anti-Street Artist?
The Gray Ghost haunts New Orleans with a vengeance, adding his own Dada-esque anti-art to walls everywhere, graying out graffiti with his own incidentally artistic approach. Paradox and ...
