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Month: April 2017

Selective Hearing: These Earplugs Let You Turn Down Sounds of the World

We’ve all had moments where we wished we could tune out a particular person or muffle loud music without losing the ability to hear a friend’s voice, but standard earplugs don’t exactly ...

Collecting Inspiration: 3 Must-See Data Artists & Designers at Eyeo 2017

Jenny Odell collects and organizes all kinds of things, from meticulously sorting digital finds on Google Maps to tracing the origins of everything she used, wore, ate or bought on one ...

Fractal Fruit: Produce Carved into Elaborate Geometric Patterns

S The mathematical precision of the patterns cut into raw fruits and vegetables is almost too perfect to be real, but on top of that, Japanese artist Gaku has to work as rapidly as possible to ...

Visionary High-Rises: Winners of the 2017 eVolo Skyscraper Competition

The way we design and engage with our built environments will rapidly change as we grapple with climate change and develop new technological innovations, and in some cases, radical new ideas will ...

Still Life with Smoke Bombs: Artist Live-Paints Berkeley Protest Violence

This past Saturday, Trump supporters and counter-protesters from the left clashed violently in liberal Berkeley, all while one intrepid street painter captured the scene live on canvas. ...

Guitar for Modern Nomads: This Digital Instrument is Designed to Travel

What if you were to eliminate the unwieldy parts of a guitar but maintain its resonant sound and the same exact way of playing, in order to make the instrument are more convenient traveling ...

Faith Lift: 14 Modern Churches Reinvent Religious Architecture

The classic silhouette of a church may be iconic and instantly recognizable, but modern-day religious architecture proves itself to be adaptive after all, evolving into a broad variety of ...

Labyrinthine Loophole: Bar Entry Maze Beats 500 Meter Minimum Distance Law

Following a Supreme Court of India ruling that bars must be a minimum of 500 meters away from highways, one intrepid watering hole wrapped itself in a 250-meter maze to effectively ...

NK INK: North Korea Graffiti, Stencils & Street Art

North Korea may be making the headlines like never before but the world's graffiti artists have been featuring the Hermit Kingdom's leaders for years. When it comes to North Korea, there's ...

Steampunk Micro-Home: Mobile Shabby Chic Trailer Rocks Lofty Aesthetic

Borrowing stylistic details from urban warehouse lofts and rustic rural cabins, this 200-square-foot home manages to look weathered and sophisticated at the same time. Reclaimed pine and ...

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