Dystopian Dumpster Living: Trash Bins Turned Tiny Houses
Giant receptacles for trash have been transformed into the most unexpected things - swimming pools, bars, giant pinhole cameras, and now tiny 'living containers' on wheels. German designer ...
Month: December 2012
30 Days of Design: 15 Off-the-Wall Calendars
Grids of square-shaped dates aren't the only way to keep track of the passing year. These 15 design-centric wall and desk calendars allow you to pop, unravel, bleed and burn your way through the ...
High & Dry: 8 Amazing Abandoned Aquariums
Recreating the sea on land is no easy task, especially when a stable and viable marine ecosystem is the crux of the plan. When things go wrong, however, the life leaves and what's left looks ...
Bunyan’s Pride: 19 Log Cabins That Stack Above The Rest
The typical rectangular cabin plopped in the middle of the woods is no longer the standard, as homeowners get increasingly creative with rustic housing, the designs are becoming larger than ...
Stories Jump Out of the Pages with 3D Book Sculptures
Fiction favorites, from Gone with the Wind to Treasure Island, literally leap off the pages in three dimensions in Jodi Harvey-Brown's imaginative book paper sculptures. Harvey-Brown illustrates ...
Design Miami Tent Covered with Inflatable Sausages
Bundles of giant white inflatable sausages make a big visual impact on the exterior walls of the Design Miami tent at Art Basel. New York studio Skarnitecture covered the structure in vinyl tubes ...
Then & Now: Hybrid Images of a Deserted School in Detroit
It is one thing to see a building in a state of disrepair and imagine what it would have been like when it was occupied and vibrant. It is quite another to overlay a photograph, taken from the ...
Wheely Great Ideas: 10 Cool Bike Technology Concepts
The bicycle has been a favorite form of transportation for around two centuries, and every generation adds its own advances and accessories to the time-tested design. Living in the technology age ...
On Space Time Foam: Surreal Billowing Art Installation
The science of engineering and rationalism of city planning meet visionary experimentation in art installations by Tomás Saraceno. The Argentina-born artist is known for works that imagine an ...
Beyond Domes: 36 Photos of Burning Man Building Types
It would be a mistake to characterize Burning Man as merely a festival in the desert. For one week a year, an entire built environment (dubbed Black Rock City) for tens of thousands of residents ...
