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From now on I expect all towers carrying electric power cables to look like this: Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition. (Thanks, TP!) “This design transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape by making only small alterations to existing pylon design.” “Making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design, we have created [...] Want to reduce shoplifting, or increase participation in an honor system? Paste up some eyes where people can see them. “Dr Bateson said that even though the eyes were not real they still seemed to make people behave more honestly. The effect may arise from behavioural traits that developed as early humans formed social groups that [...] I’m not a design critic, but I love reading design critics. This essay by John Thackara might help explain why. Following are some excerpts, but really, read the whole thing. The Revelation Advice for would-be design critics By John Thackara What Should Design Critics Write About? Simple design changes can make a substantial impact on the environmental footprint. Andrew Kim makes the case for square soda bottles. A brief interview with Kim can be found here. When I retire I’m going to get a walking house and tour the beaches of the world. See a slideshow here. “Emerging from N55’s philosophy of making art as a part of everyday life, the Walking House is the first real, modular ‘walking machine’ designed for living inside and for potentially forming various sizes of communities. Why [...] Design for the First World is a design contest asking developing countries for some suggestions on how the west can deal with problems like obesity, aging populations, low birth rates, over-consumption of mass-produced goods, and integrating immigrant populations. Our fellows in the first world often come to visit and give us their well intentioned but often [...] Very cool post at io9 about experimental archaeology. “[E]xperimental archaeology is an attempt to reverse engineer the past, not so much to deduce exactly how things worked but to better understand how ancient peoples interacted with their environments and technologies.” While many experimental archaeologists are highly trained scholars and researchers, there’s a strong amateur element as well. [...] (via Xark) The Cult of Done Manifesto 1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. In my re/created Tampa the city uses lace fence when they have to put up chain link fencing. I’m really digging these corkscrew benches at the Una Hotel Vittoria in Florence. They sure would look cool at bus stops around Tampa.
via Tripadvisor 100,000 Garages is an effort to create a network of fabbers. Check out their “Our Big Idea!” page for an explanation. During the presidential debates Tom Brokaw asked the candidates if they thought “economic, environmental, and energy challenges” would best be solved by a Manhattan Project-style effort, or 100,000 garages across America independently generating ideas [...] We are in the middle of a manufacturing revolution. For those involved in this revolution, and those who watch culture along the fringes, this is old news. Mainstream America and policy makers, however, seem to be completely unaware of the revolution taking place.
Logo created by Conal for the Ryerson and Western Online Journalism students [...] A “deep geologic repository” is a place to store high-level nuclear waste. There are a lot of plans for such repositories around the world, but currently none exist. While there are places that collect nuclear waste, none of them are considered permanent storage spaces. 10,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste are generated around the globe each [...] It’s been awhile since I posted any benches. I really like cool public benches. Tampa needs a LOT more sitting space. Below is a cool swinging bench I found at 11 Creative Public Bench Designs. Sang-Hoon Lee designed this bench. You can find more here. Some more cool street furniture here, including this red wave bench. This Matt Jones talk at TechnoArk introduces the idea of Mujicomp, the widespread use of simple, interactive, and social gadgets. It’s a speculation about where the future of hand-held devices might be heading. Jones offers some examples of items that are almost there, but doesn’t really offer a good idea of what the object might [...] This fellow, Jem Stansfield, from the BBC One show Bang Goes the Theory decides he wants to use the power of cheap vacuum cleaners to help him climb walls like Spiderman. No updates today. I’m hanging out at TEDxTampaBay. You can check it out through the links below. More Videos and images will be going up over the course of the coming week. The TEDxTampaBay webcast. TEDxTampaBay Twitter page, and #tedxtampabay. TEDxTampaBay Facebook fan page. TEDxTampaBay at Flickr, and Flickr tag. TEDx events from around the world can be viewed at [...] Open Sailing is an effort to build a new way to live and work on the ocean. Open_Sailing 4 minutes concept from Cesar Harada on Vimeo. “Open_Sailing is an international community trying to develop the International_Ocean_Station as an open-source project, developing hardware and software to enable intelligent human activities at sea. The project started as an apocalyptic [...] Over at Shareable Rachel Botsman interviews Casey Fenton, founder of CouchSurfing. Rachel Botsman: One of the themes I explore in my forthcoming book is how collaborative communities quickly form “trust between strangers.” How did you create trust from the outset within the CouchSurfing community? Casey Fenton: Right from the beginning, we wanted people who had never [...] H+ columnist Hank Hyena will try to convince you that nudity is good for your brain. “5. Weak Body, Worried Mind. Clothes are a breeding ground for filthy fungi and bad bacterium, causing yeast infections, urinary tract infections, rotting toenails. Lyme Disease deer ticks can grab onto your sweater and sea lice can sneak into your [...] Here’s a terrific post by Kari Chapin, author of The Handmade Marketplace. It’s a post about creating a community for small-business crafts people. “I really believe that building community around yourself and your business can be a big part of whether or not you are successful. Connecting with other like-minded artistic people, joining a local craft [...] This month’s WIRED has an interesting article about Local Motors, an open source car design start-up. Local Motors takes the knowledge and history of kit cars and applies open source design techniques, and Web 2.0 networking to create small batch designs for car aficionados. At $50,000 a pop, this isn’t something everyone is going to want [...] TED is a “big ideas” conference held every year in Long Beach, California. Started just over a quarter-century ago TED now hosts conferences across the globe and works to encourage similar independent events to bring “ideas worth spreading” to local communities through the TEDx program. The Tampa Bay area will see its own TEDxTampaBay event [...] The designer of one of the most iconic and prevalent images in our world today died Saturday, December 12. Robert G. Heft designed the 50 star flag of the United States of America in 1958 when he was 17 years old. He sewed his flag for a school project. He received a B-, but his [...] Tremendous collection of open source design curricula put together by Nathan Shedroff, author of Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable. Interview here. “This is a series of free syllabi and teaching materials to help instructors teach students key topics for the future. These courses are studio courses, meant to teach students [...] I really like the Fast Flip design, but it’s not as malleable as I’d like to see. I want to add feeds, and create tabs and rows. I don’t like that it embeds full articles. I thought placing your frame around a whole page went out of style 15 years ago. Maybe that’s to control for [...] I have a great admiration for Stewart Brand, but I must admit his advocacy for nuclear power baffles me. I have enough respect that I’ll pick up his new book Whole Earth Discipline and see what he has to say. Here’s an interview with Brand at Seed magazine. “Brand has now issued a bold challenge to the [...] I wonder how much it would cost to build one of these. “He cooks his meals in a solar oven, and heats up water for showers and kitchen use with a solar water heating system. There’s a urinal funnel on the outside, but unfortunately there’s no facilities for taking care of number two. … Overall, this [...] Spider boots help reduce injury caused by anti-personnel mines. Here are some more nifty “socially useful” designs at Wired. I think I’m going to get a personalized urn for after I’m cremated. “Personal urns are a new and exciting way to memorialize your loved one. “Now we can create a custom urn in the image of your loved one or favorite Celebrity. “New advances in facial reconstruction and 3D printing have made it possible to have an [...] |
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