Jul 01
If you’re struggling to find the right furniture for your place, consider making your own—from Mozilla’s very own pool of open source designs.
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Jun 30
Switched On: Form in the USA
Posted in: Today's ChiliEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
The Mac Pro might have been worthy of the “One More Thing” kinds of reveals that Steve Jobs used to do at Apple events. Despite being foreshadowed by Tim Cook as a product the company was going to make in the US, it was virtually carted in from left field at an event that focused broadly on new operating systems before a crowd of developers that could appreciate its power. That said, it will likely require OS X Mavericks, a thematically fitting release for a product that represents a new wave in Apple’s design.
Some have said that iOS 7 may be the company’s New Coke. The Mac Pro, though, is the new can. Its cylindrical form represents a new design for Apple, albeit one that jibes with the company’s affinity for simple, rounded, iconic shapes. Like the new AirPort Extreme, it has a significant vertical profile, but is a fraction of the size of its predecessor designed to accommodate multiple optical drives and hard drives.
Filed under: Apple
Jun 30
It always rains the day you’re moving or gets really icy when you have a lot of driving ahead of you. Murphy’s Law definitely applies. If you could control the weather things would be much easier, and Design I/O wants you to feel like you can. Their installation allows participants to make it rain, produce wind, drive snow and bust out of ice blocks, all with a wave of your arm.
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Jun 30
It would be so convenient if all the clutter in life could just disappear. Only the essentials. Clean lines. If you replaced everything in your house with pieces from this series by Japanese architecture group NOIZ you would never need to worry about loose change under the couch cushions or crumbs on the table again. Also having a couch that you can only see from certain angles is a convenient party trick.
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Jun 28
From churches to iOS glitch art, we found a wide variety of beautiful items on the internet this week. Sure, you’re on the cusp of the weekend, but before you go, take a second to binge on some of the wonders of the worlds of art architecture, and design from the last few days.
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Jun 28
There’s one in every family or group of friends: A photographer who—willing or not—spends most of their time behind the lens, and ends up conspicuously absent from nearly every photo. It’s inevitable. Well, not anymore. The Duo, a working concept camera, splits in half to capture both photographer and photographee at the exact same instant.
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Jun 28
It’s Friday, and you’re just about in the home stretch. Well, assuming you’re not on Pacific Time, that is, in which case stop reading right now because your entire day is about to go pleasantly bobbing down the drain. Bobbing. Always bobbing. Just like our new whale friend here.
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Jun 28
Just because a piece of glass might claim to be "bulletproof" doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s actually, well, bulletproof. But if your bullet-resistant glass is sturdy enough, that speeding bullet will usually just end up lodged in layers of polycarbonate. That’s what intrigues photographer Deborah Bay.
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Jun 28
Last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller finally admitted that the Bureau uses drones to carry out surveillance on Americans (say hi!). Meanwhile, the tweens next door are probably spying on you too, watching you pick your nose using a $300 drone they bought on Amazon. UAV use in America—and public anxiety over it—is exploding. And Domestic Drone Countermeasures, an anti-drone technology startup, is building a business around it.
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Jun 28
The Chupa Chups packaging is uncanny—you could spot the swirly, colorful wrapper from a mile away, and you’d instantly know it was the most famous Spanish lollipop in the world. David Airey, an Ireland-based graphic designer, put together this illustration that shows the evolution of the Chupa Chups logo since it first arrived on the scene in 1958.
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