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Plug & Plop: Urban Add-Ons Turn Street-Side Bollards into Seats & Tables

Designed to act as barriers, bollards are a common sight in cities around the world -- but what if they could engage rather than just separate? This series of simple additions from ...

World’s Longest Pedestrian Suspension Bridge Stretches Over 1,000 Feet

Three hundred feet above the valley floor, a suspension bridge gently sways and bobs as pedestrians cross its 1,621-foot length through the Swiss Alps. These impressive stats have helped the ...

Future Fonts: Tracing the Role of Typography in Science Fiction in Films

Whether intentionally retro, as in Stranger Things, or overtly futuristic, as in RoboCop, the role of typography in a movie goes well past the title, subtly but powerfully shaping the world ...

Anime Architecture: Exhibition Showcases Japan’s Fictional Buildings

Visions of fictional cities - whether optimistic, realistic, fantastical or dystopian - tend to take on a haze of mystery and grandiosity in Japanese anime, as epitomized in 'Ghost in the Shell.' ...

Art of Wearable Tech: 10 Fashionable Designs Help with Fun, Sex & Self-Defense

Not all wearable tech has to be a tiny smartphone on your wrist or a device that tracks how many steps you've taken - it can also record your memories as you see them, visibly react to your ...

California City: The Half-Built Desert Metropolis of the Golden State

It's the third-largest city in California by land area but most people (including many in CA) have never even heard of this mostly-empty desert oasis, home to around 15,000 people. It's not quite ...

Where Gods Live: Forest Environment Enhanced by Live Digital Projections

As if forests aren’t magical enough already, the Japanese art/technology collective Teamlab will be live-projecting their signature transforming visuals onto the surfaces of Mifuneyama Rakuen ...

Rethinking the Refugee Camp: 8 Architectural Proposals for Asylum Seekers

Refugees fleeing the worst humanitarian crises of our time don't just need tents - they need safe and stable long-term housing, a sense of community, access to transitional resources and plans ...

Vape Trails: 12 Hot Vape Shops & E-Cigarette Retailers

E-cigarette and vaping supply shops have sprouted up like mushrooms in recent years but when it comes to branding, this youthful industry is still in a fog. The electronic cigarette ...

NYC Transformed: Graffiti Artist Turns Urban Objects into 3D Cartoons

No street grate, pipe, manhole cover, stack of barrels or concrete blob on the beach is too random and irregular to be transformed into a lighthearted cartoon. Street artist Tom Bob looks for the ...

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