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Month: June 2016

Origami Footwear: Lightweight Lace-Free Shoes Wrap & Fit Any Feet

A Japanese designer and Italian shoemaker have taken a fresh approach to athletic footwear, adapting the minimalist art of cloth wrapping to form the basis of a flexible shoe that fits any ...

Figurative Furniture: 15 Designs With Life of Their Own

Does the human tendency to place a higher value on living things that resemble our own image even extend to furniture? You might think so from the range of anthropomorphic designs we’ve created ...

Pop Arch: Improbable Design Illustrations Made with Autocad

Used by architects and engineers, Autocad and other computer-aided design (CAD) programs have a long history as boring and blunt instruments of drafting, but this architectural illustrator has ...

Tiny Apartment’s Rooftop Terrace Features Flat-Folding Deck Chairs

A cramped, stale and long-neglected 400-square-foot studio apartment in Hong Kong feels downright luxurious with the addition of a rooftop terrace and some pretty cool space-saving features. ...

Walk on Water: 13 Interactive Aquatic Art Installations

Vital yet dangerous, shifting its shape and obscuring what lies beneath, water is an ideal conduit for illusion, and artists take advantage of these qualities to produce works that confuse our ...

IKEA Indoor Gardens Produce Food Year-Round for Homes & Restaurants

IKEA recently launched a hydroponic gardening system to allow people to grow fresh produce at home (without soil or sunlight) and has just unveiled a similar system under development that is ...

White Water Roofing: Wild Water Tanks Top Cool Punjabi Homes

Out to impress the neighbors in Punjab, India? Try topping your humble abode with a cool water tank rendered as a jet, blossom, or bodybuilder. ...

Light Touch: Sensual Installation Lets Visitors Feel Luminescence

In a new light art installation dubbed Sense of Field, Tokyo artist Hitomi Sato lets visitors simultaneously see, touch and shape shimmers of light all on sides. The immersive experience ...

Please Touch the Art: Tactile 3D Portraits Let the Blind See Themselves

“My nose isn’t that big!” protests portrait subject George Wurtzel as he runs his hands over his own image, rendered in paint on thousands of screws raised from a wooden board in a relief ...

Design Copyright Debate: Cheap Replica Eames Chairs Sold for 90% Less

Seated at the center of a new design-related copyright conversation, a series of Eiffel chairs sold by discount superstore Aldi has designers arguing on both sides. The chairs in question ...

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