In the battle royale between landmark San Francisco bridges, the Golden Gate will probably always get the glory. But after seventy years, its sister span to the east is coming into its own. The Bay Bridge: A Work in Progress is an upcoming exhibition at the city’s De Young Museum that chronicles the earliest days of construction from 1933 to 1936.
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Just as we did a year ago, I’m kicking off 2014 with a list of design trends I expect to gain ground over the next twelve months. The world of interactive design is an extreme fluid in terms of what’s determined as a staple of good design from year to year.
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Tired of your boss busting your chops for getting back a few minutes late from lunch? Just hang this Hazy wall clock in your office and let it serve as the perfect alibi. Is it eight after one, ten after one, twelve after one? It’s impossible to say, because designer Ivan Kasner has given the Hazy clock an opaque face that makes it hard to accurately tell where the hands are pointing.
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Cats are great, but their scratching posts and furniture take up a lot of room. One solution is to put all of this furniture on the upper walls and ceilings. You’re not using those spaces and your cat will appreciate it.
Cats like to feel like they are up in the trees, as they would be in their natural environment, so these only make sense. These climbing components and sleeping spots come from the German company Goldtatze, and you can see more pictures at hauspanther.
German engineering for kitties. Now they can take over the ceiling and give you a break down below.
Those cats sure do look happy. Though they will still act all aloof, and probably walk across your human furniture to spite you.
[via Metafilter via Neatorama]
For some reason mankind has been happy to settle for elastic rubber bands that only exist in two dimensions. So far they’ve served us mostly ok, but the talented designers at Nendo have realized that taking rubber bands into the third dimension vastly improves their usefulness. From securing rolled up documents, to binding together a bunch of pencils, it’s just an all together better design.
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We’re smack-dab in the middle of winter and baby, it’s cold outside (or so I’ve heard; I live over in LOL). I imagine that it might be tough to find the beauty in yet another day of sub-zero temperatures, but for some enterprising creative types, bone-chilling frost is more than a major nuisance—it’s the stuff that musical dreams are made of.
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If you head along to this year’s Sochi Winter Olympics, you could be the face of the games. Quite literally, actually, thanks to the British architect Asif Khan‘s Megaface—a giant pinscreen on the side of a building that will morph to display the scanned faces of visitors.
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Who says you need opposable thumbs to assemble objects or operate complex machinery? Empire Robotics has been working on the plush sphere of the future with their so-called "jamming-based robot grippers," otherwise known as the Versaball system.
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Tis a mobile world we live in, one filled with apps that are, more often than not, updated frequently and a degree or two separated from their Web-based counterpart’s design … Continue reading
Ooh Monday, why you gotta be such a drain? Everything just seems more difficult at the start of the week. Somehow, designer Hui Chun Chen’s Constructing Memory collection manages to embody that feeling in furniture that takes extra effort to put—and keep—together.
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