Can Urban Planning Turn Brooklyn Into the Next Silicon Valley? Kyle VanHemert, wired.com WXY presents a smart vision for any city seeking to accommodate innovation. http://flip.it/rrvpO
Frameless Geodesic Dome rigsomelight.com What is it? It’s a frameless geodesic dome designed to be easy to fabricate and build. It is 18 feet wide at the widest point and about 13 feet tall. It feels very spacious for it’s 209 square foo … http://flip.it/WSm4Q Related articles Tiny frameless geodesic home costs only $2100 (boingboing.net)
Thrive with Less Christina Nellemann, tinyhouseblog.com Can you not only live, but thrive, with less? A group of six college students from Michigan decided to take some time out of what they felt were lives of excess to live more minimally. They filmed the lifestyle experiment last year and made it int… http://flip.it/uGijv Related articles…
Growing shoes and furniture: A design-led biomaterial revolution by Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Aug 18, 2013 5:00 pm UTC, arstechnica.com The natural world has, over millions of years, evolved countless ways to ensure its survival. The industrial revolution, in contrast, has given us just a couple hundred years to play catc … http://flip.it/P6gTH
Don’t You Wish You Were In One of These Beautiful Natural Pools? Eric Limer, gizmodo.com You’d be crazy not to love stark, modern design like the stunning Tangga House, but the natural look can be beautiful too. Take these awesome man-made pond pools from Water House for example. You can’t tell me you don’t want…
Cramming Into A Tiny House May Not Be So Bad Lily Hay Newman, gizmodo.com Between crippling recessions and human environmental impact things have gotten complicated, and frankly kind of negative. That may be why the small house movement is so appealing. Downsizing everything means less stuff to buy and maintain.… http://flip.it/CsudH Related articles At First,…
Specialized Turbo: Powerful Electric Bike Makes Cycling No Sweat Sam Laird, mashable.com The Specialized Turbo may represent the future of personal urban transport. The electric bike that hit the American market this year looks sleeker than its clunkier competitors, has the speed to easily pass cars on streets and offers the off-road… http://flip.it/jjeYS Related articles…
A Tour of the Bus hankboughtabus.com Hi! I’m Hank, and I bought a bus. In architecture school I was tired of drawing buildings that would never exist, for clients that were imaginary, and with details I didn’t fully understand. I p … http://flip.it/yfI7s Related articles Fair play for machines: Chomsky’s misreading of Turing, and why…
Varibike lets you pedal with your legs – and your arms Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com Earlier this year, we heard about a proposed arm- and leg-powered bicycle known as the 4StrikeBike. At the time, we knew that if it were to reach production, it would be facing some competition from the existing Raxibo Hand-Tret-Velo. Now, it…
Udacity design course emphasizes design for everyone Rani Molla, gigaom.com Understanding what constitutes good design isn’t just important for technology startups and enterprise companies – it’s important for the rest of us, too. Design — both good and bad– is a larger part of our daily lives than you might… http://flip.it/rQvVa
How Emotional Design can Give your Website Much More Impact Flin Nortier, thenextweb.com This post by Flin Nortier was originally published on the blog of design agency Soda Studio. As an interaction designer, how often have you run into projects where you’re asked to ensure a great ‘user experience’, without… http://flip.it/lMe4Z Related articles Why we…
How to Stay Productive When You Work in an Open Office Lauren Lee Anderson, thenextweb.com This post was originally published on the 15Five blog. It’s very likely that if you’ve worked in an office at all, you’ve worked in an open-plan office. As a reaction against hierarchical workplace structures and a means to mov… http://flip.it/NRxE7
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