KISS & Mark Up: 10 Bizarre KISS Branded Products
KISS and its hustling frontman Gene Simmons continue to raise the rock music merchandising bar, licensing thousands of products ranging from banal to bizarre. KISS my buns? Only if they're ...
Year: 2017
A New Spin: 125-Year-Old Windmill Turned into a Towering Guest House
From barns and sheds to windmills, rural farm structures have a habit of falling into disrepair when they cease to serve their old functions. In Suffolk, England, one such old structure has found ...
Trippy Tiles: Optical Illusion Installation Will Mess with Your Brain
Looking at this picture, it seems pretty obvious that something is seriously wrong with the floor… right? And yet, as we should all know by now, things aren’t always as they seem, no matter ...
Playful Kirigami: Touch-Activated Paper Animals Pop into Action
Acting out scenes from storybooks or animating real activities, these deceptively simple-looking, folded-paper toys leap, bounce, roll and hatch into action when played with. Japanese ...
Picnic at the Border: Artist JR Hosts Bi-National Meal at a Giant Table
At one small point on the United States-Mexico border, where two towns named Tecate are separated by a fence, residents of both countries sat down to the same picnic at a gigantic table printed ...
Not Your Dive Bar’s Pool Table: 13 Modern Game Furniture Designs
Most game furniture looks like it belongs in a musty basement smelling of spilled beer and body odor, but high end tables for billiards, foosball, ping pong, shuffleboard and other popular indoor ...
Huge Color-Coded ‘LEGO House’ Designed by BIG Now Open in Denmark
Designed by architects from BIG, the new LEGO House is itself huge: a 130,000-square-foot 'experience center' welcoming people of all ages to play with and appreciate this ubiquitous ...
Doing Our Dirty Work: Crows Trained to Clean Up Cigarette Butts
Should we really be training ultra-smart birds to do our dirty work for us, picking up cigarette butts all over our cities in exchange for treats? One Dutch start-up hopes their clever ...
Rail to Trail: 12 U.S. Park Projects Reclaiming Urban Infrastructure
A whole lot of valuable land in America's densest urban centers is occupied by the disused and often toxic remnants of neglected infrastructure, industrial complexes and other blight that could ...
Outta Sight: 15 Closed & Abandoned Opticians
The optics are all wrong when it comes to these closed and abandoned opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologist shops as anyone can clearly see. There's no optician like an Ophthalmic ...
