Elegant Front DrivesDering Hall A stunning driveway sets the tone for the entire exterior of the house. We've assembled a gallery of front drives that graciously curve through …
Colonial-Style HomesDering Hall A classic style of American design, colonial architecture continues to define contemporary aesthetics, especially on the East Coast. Consider …
The Surprisingly Complex Design of the Ziploc BagWIRED - David Macneal You don’t know how to properly seal a resealable bag. It’s not your fault. Pretty much everyone screws it up. People tend to close the zipper …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo The History of Computer Data Storage, in Picturespingdom.com Nowadays we are used to having hundreds of gigabytes of storage capacity in our computers. This was pure science fiction only a few decades ago. For …
Drawing The Secret Lives of the Tiny People In Architectural RenderingsGizmodo - Alissa Walker Selling a big urban idea isn’t easy. More than ever, architects rely on jaw-dropping images to convince their clients to spend millions on their …
You Can Eat KFC’s New Coffee CupFast Company - Mark WilsonMost coffee cups are made from paper or plastic. But KFC Britain has a strange, potentially better idea: Serving coffee in sweet, edible cups. Dubbed the “Scoff-ee Cup,” KFC worked with food designers
Neglected subway signage from another New Yorkwordpress.com It’s been decades since the MTA introduced the spiffy white-on-black subway station signs on platforms that clearly spell out the name of each …
CABINET // Inventory / Peel, Pucker, Pinch, Puncturecabinetmagazine.org “Inventory” is a column that examines or presents a list, catalogue, or register. We are both collectors. We love scavenging and finding things, …
A Designer's War on Misleading Parking Signspriceonomics.com When Nikki Sylianteng got a $95 parking ticket last winter, she realized that she was dealing with much more than a fine: she was dealing with a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Bic 4-Color Ball Penkk.org I work at a French school here in San Francisco, and our French teachers require students to use these pens for editing purposes. Apparently they are …
Funeral Homes Rest in Peace for Less With Caskets Made in ChinaBloomberg When Jim Malamas finally sat down to dinner with Steve Tzelalis, he knew his cousin was tired. Tzelalis had been up since 4 in the morning and …
The Last of the Typewriter Menmedium.com - Mary Pilon On a recent bleak, winter afternoon in the Flatiron District Paul Schweitzer was once again hard at work, trying to breathe life into a black, …
New York Cityseeingnetworks.in Manhole covers are one point of entry into the city's underground world, and their designs indicate what part of that world they connect to. Here are …
Play button Dad's Pub & Grub in Monroeville, PAusedtobeapizzahut.blogspot.com Ah, beautiful Monroeville, Pennsylvania. A great place to buy a car, chip in a few bucks for this lovely new road they have been building for 80+ …
24 Clever Ideas Inside Virgin’s New HotelFast Company - Mark WilsonIt’s the little things, and anyone who’s flown Virgin America knows it: the calming purple mood lighting, the food and drink orders you can place electronically from your seats, the entertaining safety
Photographs Of Neatly Arranged Dissembled Old Gadgetsdiyphotography.net Disassembling gadgets and photographing them arranged in a neat way is the new geek porn. Almost every new camera, iPhone, Galaxy and why do I need …
Deli pencil sharpener 0620memm.de - memm In my previous blog post I mentioned the Deli 0620 sharpener I bought when I was in Shanghai. I you have followed my blog you might have noticed that …
Say Goodbye to the Classic White Boxy U.S. Postal TruckCityLab - Eric JaffeThe postal service wants to change over its fleet by 2018. The classic white boxy U.S. Postal Service truck that's been roaming American streets for decades just received a Dear John letter. The agency
A Makeover for the BART Mapdesignobserver.com The new BART map is certainly easier to read. Some well-trained designer took a weed wacker to the typography, and he or she knew that there's …
