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In the gloomiest corners of a home, an artificial light will often not provide adequate brightness. A new device, however, is aimed at brightening up a room with the brightest light of them all: the sun. Lucy is a solar-powered ...
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Nike invited 10 progressive contemporary designers to explore movement through various mediums for ‘The Nature of Motion’ at Milan Design Week 2016. Nike Design aims to advance the potential of the human body through a synergy of form, function and motion. ...
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Shanghai office Four O Nine has converted a glass building in Beijing into acafe, adding walls of plants to purify polluted air. Influenced by Cafe 27’s organic menu, the team aimed to rework the existing structure into a “healthy” building ...
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What can be better than sleeping several feet off the ground and out of harm’s way in a sturdy floating tent in the wilderness? Yeah…we couldn’t come up with anything either. Introducing the Levitat, a new way to camp and ...
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Created from the engine cowling of an Boeing 737, this colossal, luxurious chair, spins weightlessly, on its highly polished spun aluminium base. Stood in its original orientation, this immense, captivating structure, is the opitome of luxury seating. The epic proportions of the ...
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One would have to imagine that, as an architect, working with rectangles and cubes would get boring after a while. That certainly seemed to be a motivating factor in Juan Carlos Ramos’Modern Pyramid House. Put together and submitted as a ...
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For some people, winter is a dark time, both emotionally and literally. Light therapy is one of the main treatments for seasonal affective disorder—sometimes known as the winter blues. Unfortunately, most light boxes used to treat SAD aren’t exactly something ...
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The Empire State Building was made as a sign of prosperity and wealth, was it not? Over time, the definition of prosperity would change to not how much money you have, but how in touch with mother nature are you. ...
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Introverts, rejoice (without drawing attention to yourselves): Finland-basedMottowasabi have come up with a helmet that keeps out noise and annoying co-workers. Designed by Anna Salonen and Yuki Abe, the Tomako is a felt hood that acts like a bubble, removing ...