The newly opened Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston is designed give visitors an immersive experience of life in the US Senate.
After a two-year maintenance shutdown, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was successfully reactivated over the weekend. I had the great fortune of visiting the CERN campus while repairs were being made last September, catching one of the last public tours of one of its detectors.
Can nature prove to be the best furniture designer? Early prototypes of chairs growing from a field in Derbyshire in the British countryside is showing exciting possibilities.
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Continuing the tradition of famous architects designing products for the home, Bjarke Ingels has designed his first collection of bathroom fixtures.
LL Cool J à la John Singer Sargent. Ice T as Napoleon by David. A black man in a green hoodie with Hanes tighty-whities peeking, posing like that scandalous languorous marble sculpture at the Musée D’Orsay. On the surface, Kehinde Wiley’s work may seem like familiar pastiche, or the art world’s best efforts at an internet meme.
Starting this week, a dedicated gang armed with flashlights and Ziplock bags will be roaming the streets of Washington DC. Braving spring’s early morning chill, the 20-plus volunteers who signed up for Lights Out DC will comb a four-mile route for birds that crashed into windows and glass buildings overnight. Working in pairs, the participants typically start at 5:30 am and work efficiently to beat the street sweepers and janitorial crews who power-hose the sidewalks in the US capital.
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Watching advancements in 3D printing technology can seem like watching science fiction—impressive, but ultimately out of reach and arguably bearing little relevance in daily life.
OK Go, the critically-acclaimed American band renowned for its captivatingly complex and original music videos, has produced a commercial for the Chinese market.
The design brief was simple: “Spark conversation.”
With over 90 speakers over the course of five days, the TED conference is a cerebral workout. Speaker after speaker, the audience who gathered in Vancouver and Whistler last week was bombarded with exciting scientific breakthrough, emotional revelations, indelible performances, and ardent appeals for social and systemic change—one after the other. The program and post-conference activities stretched to 12-hour mental marathons at times.
“There was a time when you could not be poor enough, or rural enough, to want to live in a bamboo house,” says Ibuku founder Elora Hardy.
To illustrate a talk about the search for alien worlds at the TED conference, MIT professor Sara Seager flashed a lava-soaked landscape teeming with fireballs and gurgling streams. On the bottom corner of the slide, it read ”Artist Conception Credit: Ron Miller.”
Can super highways make good houses? Can skyscrapers bend over? Can you swim in poop?
Starting from a single recording booth in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, StoryCorps has quickly become a cultural institution in the US. Now, it wants to go global.
Artist Matt Kenyon wants you to write a letter to the US government—and he’s even supplying the paper.
In Tunisia, a graffiti piece 57 meters (187 feet) high covers the entire façade of the country’s tallest minaret.
The beauty of Behance, Adobe’s free portfolio platform, is that it never gets old. Every day, new work is uploaded by designers, and the site now hosts over 99 million images in 8 million projects. Founded in 2006, it is one of the world’s largest creative networks, with more than 50 million views per month, serving students, job-seekers and employers from 172 countries.
Celebrated American architect and product designer Michael Graves passed away at his home this week, leaving behind a legacy of playful postmodernism that found its way into the home of so many others.
When the TED conference was founded 31 years ago, the first conference showcased a demo of the compact disc, the debut of the e-book, and 3D graphics from Lucasfilm.
At Nando’s, the international restaurant chain renowned for its zesty peri-peri chicken, orders at some branches will now come with a hearty serving of South African design.
After the throng of museum-goers cleared out for the night on Tuesday (March 3), terminally ill patients were wheeled into the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for a private audience with Rembrandt.
In a country where more than a third of adults are obese, how do you get Americans to move more? The answer may lie in designing more appealing staircases, according to the Center for Active Design.
