Hybrid Graffiti: Black-and-White Stencils Bring Colorful Tags to Life
Nearly photo-realistic figures stenciled in place make bright surrounding tags all the more vibrant in this series of street art juxtapositions by artist Martin Whatson of ...
Year: 2016
GeoOrbital Wheel: Tron-Inspired Add-On Makes Any Bike Electric
Make any bicycle an electric bike in 60 seconds simply by replacing the front wheel with ‘GeoOrbital,’ a gadget made by a team of engineers from SpaceX and Ford. Available in two sizes to fit ...
Totally Transparent: 14 See-Through Homes, Cars, Gadgets & Tech
If all walls and opaque surfaces were to disappear, leaving only see-through materials, what effect would that have on how we perceive the world around us? Designers present transparency in all ...
Modular DIY Dome Kit: Flexible Connectors Join Geodesic Wood Structures
Reducing complexity and difficulty for would-be geodesic dome builders, this series of connective 'Hubs' makes it possible for do-it-yourself types and even kids to collaborate on creating stable ...
Las Pozas: Surreal Concrete Sculpture Garden in the Jungle of Mexico
Stairs spiral up to the sky in strange configurations, going nowhere, in a tangle of surrealist sculptural structures in a Mexican jungle. Why is this series of concrete wonders hidden within the ...
Seeing Space in New Ways: 13 Creative Maps & Navigational Guides
With the advancement of technology, the ways in which we perceive information have become increasingly visual, interactive and all around multi-dimensional - so why shouldn't maps evolve to ...
Urban Food Park: Scandinavia is Growing a “Silicon Valley for Agriculture”
An expansive master-planned complex to facilitate urban agriculture and private/public collaboration, The Agro Food Park is Denmark's version of "Silicon Valley" for food research and ...
Park Places: 10 Creatively Paved, Painted & Personalized Driveways
Do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? These unusual painted driveways prove that when it comes to painted pavement, nobody's really asphalt. The Milne Boys Home in ...
Reading Coaster: NYC Public Library Installs Tiny Book Delivery Trains
A crafty reading railroad, this conveyor system helps bring up books from a series of research stacks and storage spaces hidden beneath Bryant Park, making the volumes available via a system of ...
Crate Core: Shipping Container Tower Hidden Inside a Carriage House
When glimpsed from above, this stack of vivid orange shipping containers on a Brooklyn rooftop looks like an add-on structure, but it doesn’t end where the original house’s roof begins. It ...
