Planetary Textiles: Carpeting Rooms with Organic ‘Sea Floor’ Landscapes
These designs convey all of the diverse wonder of coral reefs without having to walk along an actual sea floor (and presumably slice open a foot in the process. Porto-based ...
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Mercedes-Benz Encased in Resin Gives a New Meaning to ‘Fossil Fuels’
Millions of years from now, will aliens visiting an earth free of humans (or future humans, on the off chance we survive that long) find a puzzling ‘amber’ fossil of a 1979 Mercedes-Benz ...
Portable Walk-In Closets & 14 Other Ways to Make a Studio Feel Like a Mansion
A lot of the most impressive space-saving ideas really only work for wealthier urbanite apartment owners who can simply hire a contractor to design a bunch of customized built-ins. The results - ...
Dynamic Apparel: Flexible Charity-Designed Shoes Can Grow Up to 5 Sizes
In countries where walking barefoot is the norm, these durable shoes that grow with a child's feet can improve health, confidence, even school attendance, according to The Shoe That ...
Urine for a Surprise: IKEA Invites You to Pee on an Ad to Get a Discount
“Peeing on this ad may change your life,” reads the text at the top of a new IKEA advertisement in a women’s magazine. That text alone, devoid of context, might understandably make you ...
Artists in Residence: 18 Stunning Studios Designed for Cultivating Creativity
Shouldn't the settings of temporary artist residencies be just as creative as the art produced there? These structures include communal houses, remote huts, mobile studios, inhabitable ...
Mirrored Minimalism: Glass Retreat Reflects Surrounding Forest Landscape
Cozy on the inside and virtually invisible on the outside, this Modernist home has a reflective facade allowing it to blend in with the natural environment. Meanwhile, residents can enjoy views ...
Tread Setters: 15 Wheely Cool Spare Tire Covers
Circular spare tire covers mounted on SUVs and Jeeps double as convenient creative canvases for drivers eager to take their particular passions on the road. Spare tire covers are designed ...
Parking Hack: Every Car Lot & Garage Should Have Vertical Guidelines
If you have ever opened a side door to see the lines of a parking space, or asked a passenger to get out and guide you in, you may be wondering where this simple solution has been for all your ...
(W)Ego House: Tetris-Like Hotel Reveals Clashing Dreams of City Residents
One person’s ego-centric vision of how cities should adapt to their own particular individual needs encroaches upon the dreams of another, as revealed by MVRDV’s Tetris-like open-walled ...
