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Month: June 2016

Calligraffiti: Fresh Artistic Perspective on Cairo’s ‘Garbage City’

On the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, lies the community of Manshiyat Naser, famous for providing informal trash and recycling services for the city, but also notorious for the mess and smell that go ...

Beast of a Bicycle! Mechanical Modification With a Spider-Like Walk

This bizarre new take on the Strandbeest bicycle isn’t going to get you from point A to point B much faster than a casual stroll, but it’s fun to watch, with the rear mechanical mechanism ...

Peruse Your Illusions: 21 Mind-Bending Urban Works of Art

Optical illusion art brings a bit of magic to the streets, using paint, paste-ups or photographic tiles to transform urban surfaces into massive sinkholes, bizarre portals and mysterious doors ...

Nolli App of Rome: Use a Classic Map as a Modern Travel Guide

The Nolli Map of Rome is one of history's most famous works of cartography, and now a new iPhone and iPad app lets you use it to navigate in realtime, helping you both lose and find yourself in ...

Zig-Zagging Cantilevered Shipping Containers Create a Dynamic Pavilion

Recognizable in their original form, twelve shipping containers form a two-story recreational pavilion for the Chinese city of Shanxi, stacked and set at an angle with the top units cantilevered ...

Reflecting on a Master Architect: 10 Water-Centric Works by Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando's work consists of more than just the tangible architectural materials making up each structure, masterfully utilizing reflection, simple palettes and negative space to incorporate ...

Pencil + Sharpener: Redesign Solves 3 Classic Drawing Tool Problems

Pencils require sharpening, run out of eraser and turn into unusable stubs as they near the end of their lifespan, but this clever gadget aims to change all of that, solving all three issues at ...

Silence Of The Lamps: 10 Abandoned Light Bulb Factories

Things may look dim for these abandoned light bulb factories but hopefully the last worker out the door remembered to flip the switch on their way out. ...

Diagonal Crosswalk: Walk Any Way in LA’s Safe Scramble Intersection

When visitors approach the intersection in front of Seattle's famous Pike Place Market in the heart of downtown, the surprise is palpable when they realize that a 'go' for pedestrians lets people ...

Shadow Graffiti: Typographic Sundial Transforms Building Facade

Integrating the shadows cast by everything from stop signs to public benches into street art often requires the luck of seeing the piece in action at just the right time of day, when the shadow ...

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