Offcut Cityscapes: Sketching Sculptures with Band Saws
An adept furniture maker is familiar with scrap - but this designer-and-artist has turned leftover materials into something just as fantastic as his normal finished projects. James ...
Month: April 2013
Virtual Retail Stores Repurpose Unused Public Spaces
Photos of products with codes that can be scanned by smart phones transform cramped spaces like the walls of subway stations into virtual retail stores, saving space and potentially adding ...
Bottle & Sell It: 14 Designer Bottles that Break the Mold
Most companies are primarily concerned with price when it comes to beverage and liquid product packaging, but what if designers were given free reign to tweak the standard designs so they're more ...
Warped Reality: Media Mis-Coverage of Invisibility Cloak
This author would like nothing more than to tell you that the above images are of a real-life working prototype of the most amazing invention of the century. That sentence should be clue enough, ...
Static Flip Books: 360-Degree Scenes in Panoramic Pages
Like a flip book, there is no text, and each page of these volumes contains a slightly different scene. Except instead of paging through them rapidly to reveal the story, the 'reader' unfolds the ...
Livable Billboard Offers Artists a Temporary Home
Artists are taking over billboards all over the world, subverting their messages or dedicating them to fun and meaningful art installations instead of advertisements. But the Scribe Billboard ...
Hidden in History: 7 Top-Secret Architectural World Wonders
Bunkers under luxury hotels, wartime factories hidden beneath fake neighborhoods and vast systems of intricately decorated tunnels just beyond humble houses are among the many incredible ...
As Seen on TV: Floor Plans from Famous Television Series
A talented cast, backed by brilliant directors and writers, makes you feel like part of the action - not just through the actors telling a story, but also via the familiar spaces they regularly ...
All Bets Are Off: 10 Crapped-Out Abandoned Casinos
At these 10 abandoned casinos, the high rollers are laying low, the cards are all jokers, the wheel's stopped spinning and the dice have all thrown snake eyes. ...
Heat-Sensitive Business Cards Take On Temporary Images
Many of the people who end up with your business cards will use them to jot down notes or grocery lists, but this creative twist on the conventional lets them leave their mark in a much more fun ...
