Perhaps unsurprisingly, the world's first rotating skyscraper will be built in the futuristic desert metropolis of Dubai. The second rotatoscraper, however, will be located in Moscow a city, apparently, in dire...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 941 views | 14 recommendations | 5 comments
Headline: NowPublic - Now with Trust and Twitter"Vancouver-based news bookmarking and citizen journalism site NowPublic relaunched its website earlier this month and added a few new features that Mashable picked up on today. The new site design is less conservative that...
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Vancouver doesn't have many claims to fame, but one of the most important is its wooden coaster that resides in the Playland - and it turns 50 today.I get so scared when I ride it but everytime I go to the...
created by Amy Judd | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 1473 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
"By Chuck Squatriglia June 10, 2008 | 12:38:21 PMConcept cars give automotive designers a chance to let their imaginations run wild, often with outlandish results. But even by that measure, BMW has come up with...
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It could be a joke for all I know.At least reading Seven deadly glasses on tongue in cheek Dezeen design magazine put a smile on my face.London-based designer Kacper Hamilton created these 7 glasses for 7 sins which as you might have forgotten are lust, gluttony, greed,...
" Inspired by the landscapes, culture, and colors of Sardinia, Italy, designer Tamae Ishii translates the components of society and topography into a beautiful resort collection. Based on her muse- a non-specific...
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More interesting news coming out of the urban food movement."From atop the Rocket building, there’s no doubt you’re smack in the middle of a city. Swing around in a circle and you’ll see the sun going down...
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Tracing the origins of incense in Japan, Ryoko (PingMag) writes that "it is believed that it was introduced to Japan in the 6th century,along with Buddhism. At that time, incense consisted simply of smallchips from an aromatic tree called “koboku (fragrant wood)”, or...
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In a much-anticipated ruling issued Thursday, the California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional....
"Style can be fluid and multi-faceted. When considering the emotions we want the product to evoke, one can look at a variety of themes, their opposites, and ways they can be combined together. Perhaps the product...
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Influenced by a trip to China and shocked by the levels of urban pollution, a teenage home-trained maker named Ben J. Poss Gulak designed and built a prototype for an electric motorized unicycle with...
created by Jordan Yerman | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 1163 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
Want to design a t-shirt for a balding, busking, earnest, free music-providing, electroni-rocker? You're in luck, kids. Moby needs you!"Have you got an eye for design? Do you like rocktronica, vegans and...
So apparently not only are we wearing the wrong shoes, but we are walking wrong as well."Today, high heels are considered sexy. Whatever their reasons for wearing the shoes they wear, people don't usually...
created by poolparty | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 2503 views | 5 recommendations | 4 comments