Chairs from Nowhere: Secret Table & Seats Hide in Shelves
Four chairs, one table, and they take up almost no space when not in use - yet not folding, flipping, stacking or complex mechanical maneuvers are needed to make it happen. With very ...
Month: September 2012
Writing, Reinvented: 14 Innovative Pen & Pencil Designs
Most of us don't expect our writing instruments to do anything more than write. But after seeing the incredible things that these 14 pen and pencil designs can do, we might just raise our ...
Ear Shift: The Top 10 Oddly Named Chinese Cars
Finding inspiring names for cars isn't easy, especially when your mother tongue isn't English and, in the case of China, there are over three dozen automakers looking to proudly dub their chariots. ...
Bon Appetit: 14 Bizarre Foods That Will Make You Squirm
For some people, sushi is one of the wildest things they've eaten. By international standards, that is pure child's play. Most countries have their own quirky delicacies and by American ...
Minimalist Wood Peg Furniture is Easy to Assemble & Store
Living in tight urban spaces requires a certain ingenuity in choosing and arranging furniture, to ensure that it not only fits the space but also the inhabitant's changing needs. There are lots ...
Ruined Renaissance Palace Gets Rusted Steel Addition
A rusted, L-shaped Corten steel volume replaces the missing corner of a crumbling Renaissance palace in the renovation of an ancient site in Pécs, Hungary. The contrast between the historic ...
Arts & Crowdfunding: Recap of NAMAC 2012 Conference
Forms of funding are fast evolving in the digital age, and the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture 2012 Leading Creatively conference provided a window into how different artists, ...
Ghost Architecture: Building Demolition Photo Composites
Philadelphia native Andrew Evans takes pictures that give a new perspective on the processes of urban deconstruction, showing before, during and after images of once-proud civic ...
Dead Media: Art Installation Created with 497 VHS Tapes
What do you do with 497 obsolete VHS tapes? Noah Scalin ripped them apart and made them into a giant three-dimensional skull-shaped art installation entitled 'Dead Media'. The proprietor of ...
San Francisco Past & Present: Blended Images from 1906 and 2012
106 years ago, San Francisco was in ruins. The earthquake of 1906 destroyed over 80% of the city, with 30 fires that broke out as a result burning down 25,000 buildings on 490 city blocks. But ...
