
With the news that the original set of emoji’s are now honoured at the MoMA, the explosion of a new language of characters (beyond our humble 26 plus numbers and diacritics in English) to express what were thinking can seem a little, well, flat, sometimes. But no longer, thanks to Rejoinders, by Molly Young which […]

Zelf Koelman is busy inventing the future of material interactions, or as he captures it, a place “Where digital meets nature”. What does that mean? A series of rolling experiments where art meets tech meets material science meets interaction. The result, in this instance, is called Ferrolic – which I guess is a compound of […]

Maybe not, but what a thing… check out the video! Richard Clarkson has created a small remote-controlled cloud for the home that plays music and flashes while hovering a few centimetres from the ground. It’s apparently made from “white polyester fibres, the cloud and its base are embedded with magnetic components that allow it to […]

Spotted on FastCo’s design magazine, here’s the thing: how do you design packaging to protect its contents without spending more money on expensive protective materials? The answer is… you don’t. You make use of an ingenious camouflage: No matter who was doing the shipping, too many of our bikes arrived looking like they’d been through […]

Here’s Lyft’s “Transportation as a Service” pitch – that the car (at least as far as John Zimmer, the President of the North American ride-sharing co. is concerned) has turned the country into a vast, expensive and inefficient car park: 250 million cars in America are only occupied 4% of the time The idea that […]

I’ve just finished Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Landmarks’ and if you were ever lost for words, here’s the perfect antidote. The book is a paean (a song of praise or triumph, in this instance to the names we give {gave?} things) against the steady erosion of words which perfectly capture the smallest of observations (so a smeuse? […]

From Brazil, the bike-based projectionists who bring their super-high lumen light shows to life by treating entire landscapes as a canvas. The time-lapsed results are pretty marvelous. Using long exposure photographs, we created short videos of stop motion combining traditional animation, technology and nature. We spent long nights capturing each scene. Read all about vjsuave […]