When I first saw the above piece of furniture by Takeshi Miyakawa, my first thoughts were: wow, what a brilliant design! Then I did some more practical thinking and realized that it wouldn’t fit in most standard appartments, as well as I wouldn’t know what to put in it.
A question that I never could answer [...]

Sometimes you mind wanders in the most unusual places. It happened to me the other day as I was releasing the few extra beers I drank, and found myself concentrating on that little fly in the urinal. Then I thought about how that little insect made life a little better for the cleaning people who [...]

If you are reading blogs, there are good chances that you already know about RSS. Anyway, DailyBlogTips organized a RSS awareness day to help the expanding of this technology’s usage. I will not explain what RSS is here, so if you don’t know anything about it, just go there.
So what can designers do with RSS?

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If you are like me, you probably never heard of Breda (Netherlands) and didn’t know that a graphic design festival is held there. Looking at the website of the event really makes me want to go there sometime between may 23 and june 29. Many famous designers like iLoveDust, Stefan Sagmeister or Pixelgarten will be [...]

Creative bookshelf via Freshome.

The Aquaduct is a pedal powered concept vehicle that transports, filters, and stores water for the developing world. The functional model was designed and constructed over a three week period for the Innovate or Die contest hosted by Google and Specialized.
The vehicle seeks to address the two main challenges with water in the developing world: [...]

 
Typorganism is a seris of communication experiments exploring computational interaction design and interactive kinetic typography based on the metaphorical notion of typography “Type is a life form”, which lives on the Net, responds to user’s stimulus, evolves through time, has intelligence powered by computational algorithm.
http://www.typorganism.com