Top 10 Trends For 2012
First of all we wish you all a happy, inspiring and healthy 2012! In January last year we published a series of ten trends for 2011 when it comes to urbanism, design, marketing and technology. It became a pretty successful bunch of articles. Our number 1, Marketing Is Urbanism, even got tweeted by the one and only Richard […]
Best Of 2011
The last day of 2011 is a good moment to highlight some of this year’s articles our readers found most interesting, intriguing and appealing. Click on ‘Read more…’ to go to the entire posts. It was a great year for us, and 2012 might even be better since we’re building a brand new lay-out in […]
Rotterdam’s Crowd-Funded Pedestrian Bridge
The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and Rotterdam-based architecture firm ZUS have launched the project I Make Rotterdam, a spectacular temporary pedestrian bridge between the city’s Central and the North districts that will be financed through crowd-funding. The bridge, which should be completed during the 5th International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam this Spring, has to help pedestrians to […]
Wifis.org Turns Wireless Networks Into Digital Post Boxes
Wifis.org is a start-up that aims to be a “contact form for your Wi-Fi network”. The new company, founded by Mathias Nitzsche, provides a free service that enables its users to be contacted by others through their wireless networks. How? People register a unique ID with the site (for instance wifis.org/example) and then rename their […]
The Portable Deck Chair
Using urban space to create your own paradise seems to be a trend in big cities. Particularly in chair design we’ve seen diverse models that actively use urban elements as part of their basic structure, including this wearable chair and this lunch bag chair. New in this series is a lazy chair to enjoy the […]
Smurbanism Works!
What was supposed to be a temporary transformation looks to be a permanent change. The South Spanish town Juzcar was turned entirely blue for the latest Smurfs movie by Sony Pictures. After 141 days blueness, the inhabitants of the small town have voted to keep the façades of the buildings blue forever. The reason is […]
Mind The Future — Compendium For Contemporary Trends
Just in time for Christmas, Berlin-based Gestalten has released one of its most remarkable publications of the year. In fact, Mind the Future: Compendium for Contemporary Trends is not a book, but a stylish box containing 70 flash cards that summarize the most important trends in the fields of economics, demographics, sociology, technology, politics, ecology, and social modeling.
Tent City: A Modular Tent System From Japan
The Japanese design firm Logos has invented a pretty cool extendable tent, which is great for families that expect expansion on the short term. Logos’s creation enables you to start with a small tent for backpacking purposes and grow your empire on the campsite over time into a complete tent city. The modular tent system is […]
Rotating Billboard Transforms Into Carousel
Prague-based artists Vojtěch Fröhlich, Ondřej Mladý, Jan Šimánek and Vladimír Turner have transformed a rotating billboard into a swinging carousel. Their guerrilla-style merry-go-round makes use of the moving mega structures that have advertising as the only funcion. This urban intervention project called ‘Kolotoč’ (‘merry-go-round’) adds some more context to these rather senseless pieces of architecture along […]
1,000 Recycled Doors Make A Great Façade
1,000 recycled doors are enough for the South Korean architect Choi Jeong-Hwa to transform a dull ten-story building into a fresh-looking landmark. This ‘skyscraper’ in the center of the Korean capital Seoul has become a pixelated landmark, that tells the story of thousand people who once chose a fitting color for a door in their apartment. In […]
X-Rayed Buildings In Budapest
Stirred by brutal large-scale urban renewal in a Budapest’s eighth district, art collective Merge Invisible found a way to commemorate old buildings that have fallen victim to demolition. In their Nefelejcs Projekt, the artists created giant murals that represent black and white X-rays of what once was. Their creations show the former building’s complete interior. The paintings […]
A Decentralized Hotel In The Woods
People like treehouses, perhaps because treehouses offer typical excitement we know from childhood. Treehouses are hidden, dangerous to get in and hard to conquer. They lift you up from the ground and provide an alternative shelter. That could be the reason why treehouses have faced a renewed attention from artists and architects over the last […]
Thomas Jackson’s Mindblowing Swarms
Brooklyn-based photographer Thomas Jackson is pretty humble about this new experimental project, but every photo is truly fascinating. His Swarm series captures large hovering masses of ordinary objects, such as leafs and cups, in several locations and spaces in and around New York City. This psychedelical work is in line with Jackson’s main specialization of […]
Ox Changes Billboard Into Artboard
French street artist Ox has made a great work along a highway in San Bernardino in California. This creation is his first digital artwork since he became famous for his marvelous paintings on analogue billboards in different cities around Europe. Some of his projects were covered here before. Most of his works are minimal pieces […]
Helsinki: Food In The Boom
Helsinki recently updated its food strategy. Old market halls are re‐invented and local creative minds of the food culture are planning ahead towards World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 and beyond.
