Nov 18
Don’t hate Zaha Hadid’s new World Cup stadium because it looks like a vagina
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Nov 18
Commercial planes have gotten bigger and bigger over the past few decades, but the size of the gate at most airports have stayed the same. To circumvent this little infrastructural disconnect, Boeing’s future 777x jet will have a massive wingspan that folds up upon landing.
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Nov 18
Korean DIY site Hobby:Design has a neat idea for a light bulb that doesn’t need electricity or electronics to work. The not so secret ingredient is of course glow in the dark pigment. Leave it exposed to bright light during the day and you get soft lighting at night. You can’t turn it off though.
Hobby:Design made the luminous bulbs by first making a cast using an actual light bulb. Then they mixed silicone with luminous pigment and poured the resulting mixture into the cast to get a bulb-shaped replica that glows in the dark. To complete the simile and make it easier to hang the bulb, they screwed the replicas into bulb sockets.
If you can use Litrospheres with this project you’ll have a semi-permanent light source. Check out the full how-to on Hobby:Design.
[via NOTCOT]
Nov 18
It’s hard to have a decent meal when you’re traveling or are spending extended periods of time outdoors, where you might not have access to tableware and basic utensils like a spoon and a fork.
The designer behind Pop-up Tableware aims to change that with this relatively simple but ingenious concept. In its unfolded version, the Pop-up Tableware looks just like an A4-sized folder.
Once it is opened, a hexagonal bowl pops up. A spoon and fork can be removed from the folder, which also serves as a place mat. With a few quick folds, the spoon and fork are transformed into three-dimensional utensils.
Pop-up Tableware is a 2013 Red Dot Design Award winner. It was designed by See Yew Siang.
[via Red Dot]
Nov 18
75 years after Philips debuted a circular "shield" logo filled with twinkling gold stars, the Dutch electronics giant has brought the design back as a bold monochromatic logomark.
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Nov 18
From its utilitarian exterior, you’d never guess Germany’s new Ergolding secondary school, designed
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From its utilitarian exterior, you’d never guess Germany’s new Ergolding secondary school, designed by behnisch architektenin, could be so eye-popping inside. The "color-coded central hub allows students to intuitively find their way around the building." [designboom]
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Nov 17
It’s annoying and wasteful at the same time to open your fridge and see spoiling food and produce. Sometimes you just don’t notice when something is spoiling until they’re already past the expiration date. Other times, you’re just too busy to check and find that it’s beyond edible when you do.
Aiming to lessen the amount of food that’s thrown away because of this is the conceptual QR Fridge Magnet.
The QR Fridge Magnet is an interactive magnet that would offer a QR code scanning feature. It’s designed to keep track of food’s expiry or spoilage dates and provides information on the shelf life of food as well. After scanning, the magnet is meant to be tacked onto the fridge.
As the days pass, the magnet would change in color to provide a visual representation of the level of freshness of the food. Green indicates that the food is still fresh, while red means that the food has spoiled and should no longer be consumed.
The Fridge Magnet was designed by Hu Yaxing, Chen Zhipeng, Liao Haibo, and Tang Yigang and is a 2013 Red Dot Design Award winner.
[via Yanko Design]
Nov 15
Cities tearing down urban freeways? Otherworldly pictures of our earth? And the tallest building in U.S. of A? Those subjects and more is what we’re feasting our eyes on in this round of the most beautiful items of the week.
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Nov 15
Kickstarter is full of dubious ideas, but it’s also home to some truly great ones—like Constellation Quilt, a handmade blanket that charts the night sky in lovely gold and white thread. When the project wrapped up its campaign June, it had reached more than ten times its original $10,000 goal.
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Nov 15
You probably want to visit the Manta Resort, a new getaway in Zanzibar—because, at the Manta Resort, you can actually get away from the getaway and stay a few hundred feet offshore in a floating hotel room. And then you can getaway again in the underwater bedroom built for watching fish.
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