Street Style: Apparel Custom-Printed with Scalable City Maps
Taking customized couture to the streets, Monochome allows you to turn any urban grid at a scale of your choice into a unique tank top, t-shirt, flare or pencil skirt. Using ...
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Omnidirectional Elevators: Maglev Tech to Reshape Skylines
Effectively using the same magnetic levitation technologies employed in high-speed trains, the MULTI elevator system conveys people horizontally as well as vertically without ropes and at ...
Iconic Camouflage: Painted People Disappear into Cityscapes
Unlike some other prominent artists working with more seamless urban camouflage in strange or offbeat settings, this work in NYC by Trina Merry allows for curves and distortions, and operates ...
Ghost Creeks: Resurfacing Vanished Waterways on City Streets
Half-forgotten historical urban rivers are set to resurface in San Francisco as part of a civic installation project designed to fill in their historical footprints with a bright blue work of ...
Modular Micro-Pad: 85 Sq Ft Loft Full of Slide-Out Surprises
Using a system of large sliding doors and functional-filled drawers to transform a maid's quarters into a whole home, this small-footprint apartment in Paris gives a (much more positive) new ...
Vehicular Hives: Envisioning Urban Commutes in Compound Cars
Imagine a future where driverless vehicles transcend their expected role in transit, becoming modular hubs that can link up for meetings, gatherings and everyday socializing beyond just getting ...
Gravesend: Fake Town for Simulating Crimes, Riots & Terrorism
Like the set of a movie or setting of a video game, this surreal suburban facility could easily be mistaken for a real place at first glance - in reality, the installation is an elaborate ...
Urban Dog Tags: Wear City Grids Around Your Neck & The World
Like giant-sized fingerprints, urban grid patterns are unique to each city - this project turns that individuating property into an wearable asset, allowing you to hang you hometown or favorite ...
Flowering Potholes: Lovely Tile Plants Fill Ugly Street Voids
An uniquely elegant solution to a dirty everyday problem, these gorgeous handcrafted tile mosaics are turning unfilled potholes back into functional pieces of city street surface all over ...
Guerrilla Signage: Designer Fixes Street Parking Sign Stacks
Anyone who has parked in a major metropolitan area has seen something like this: a vertical array of signs that provide a confusing (sometimes even self-contradictory) instructions about when you ...
