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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 ...

Art in the Shadows: Everyday Objects Cast Unexpected Shapes Onto Paper

Has doodling ever been more creative than this? While most people wouldn’t give a second’s thought to the shape an everyday object’s shadow casts upon adjacent surfaces, artist Vincent Bal ...

Inverted Umbrella: Drip-Free Design Turns Canopy Inside Out

Like tableware or sliced bread, the umbrella is the subject of many reinvention attempts but few approach the sheer cleverness and ingenious simplicity of this design solution, which tackles ...

When Every Inch Counts: 14 More Clever Small Space Hacks

Making a tiny living space comfortable and practical means integrating multi-purpose furniture, custom built-ins and lots of other clever space-saving tricks. These 14 (more) small space hacks ...

Touch to Open: Kinetic Doors Unfold Like Life-Sized Origami

Made of rubber, metal, glass and wood, these dynamic flip panel doors tackle perhaps the world's original architectural invention in a series in a fresh, new and interactive ...

Redefining Rustic Materials: 6 Modern Log Furniture Makers

Logs typically conjure images of remote cabins and plaid-clad workers felling trees. As these seven creative designers and craftspeople show, though, log furniture can be cool, clever and ...

Wrap Recap: Best 10 DIY Xmas Gift Wrappings from Reddit

The best thing come in small packages - or around them. Among other places, Reddit was abuzz this year with simple but brilliant gift-wrap ideas, often done on low (or no) budget but with ...

Nailed It: 12 Extremely Effective Guerrilla Marketing Stunts

Ad-agencies are finding it more and more difficult today to get through to the average consumer, and marketing saturation only grows with every year. It's for that reason that guerrilla ...

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