Is This Automatic Magazine Kiosk The Newspaper Stand Of The Future?
This summer, the world's first on-demand printing kiosk was introduced in a shopping mall in the Swedish capital Stockholm. Besides the fact that this is yet another interesting concept machine, it offers new opportunities for both print and digital media. Although the concept currently covers the bigger newspapers and magazines, such a machine can also give an impulse to independently published magazines as well as online media.
Sissel Tolaas: Smelling Your Way Through The City
Born in 1961 in Norway and living in Berlin since the 1980s, Sissel Tolaas has devoted more than 20 years of her life to the sense of smell. She wears her personal scent as perfume (and the odor of money on business meetings - for good luck) and has, amongst many other things, created a "Swedish smell" that uses IKEA, H&M and Volvo as ingredients. People like her remind us of the power of smell and make us wonder why such nosy business has still not found its way to city marketing and urban planning.
Signs That Have More Than One Message For You
Being huge fans, we are once again completely thrilled about Florian Rivière's latest coup. The French urban hacker has converted ordinary street signs into signs with subliminal messages that are only detected by the attentive eye. Watch out and see whether the subliminal message gets to you!
The Little Spaces Left Between Canal Houses
1m wide, 10m deep, 12m high... These are the dimensions of an alley between two houses, at Herengracht 127/129, in the canal area of Amsterdam. This alley has been forgotten for years. Closed off for safety reasons. Hidden behind a metallic door. A metal junk yard ignored in favour of the surrounding narrow buildings classified as monuments.
Turn Your TV Into A Gallery With Teletext Art
Teletext has stuck to its confined format for 40 years now, ruthlessly blocking any signs of change out, turning this medium into a nearly unused, antiquated matter. For this reason, although there has always been a number of talented artists, teletext art has never gained real momentum. The International Teletext Art Festival ITAF 2013 that could be happening now on everybody's television screen attempts to change this and to take teletext art to the masses by showing viewers the possibilities that this limited medium has to offer.
Secret Rooftop Campsite Pops Up In Brooklyn
Yeah, you could fill all rooftops in Brooklyn with urban farms, but that would be pretty boring. So how about a campsite? This summer, a modular urban encampment popped up at a secret rooftop location in Brooklyn.
Emergency Shelters Made From Paper
After working for wealthy costumers year after year Japanese architect Shigeru Ban started to question his contribution to society and decided to give his career another direction with a very different clientele. He decided to create and build emergency shelters that help people in need in disaster struck areas with nothing so simple but paper. Being on this noble course since the 1990s he has not lost sight of it ever since.
Mind The Gap: New Loft Fills Space Between Buildings
Designers Ole Robin Storjohann and Mateusz Mastalski have won the first prize of roof window manufacturer FAKRO's 'New Vision of the Loft 2' competition with a nifty idea to fill the narrow gaps between buildings with lofts.
Tomás Saraceno Creates A Playground In The Air
Ever tried sky walking? Now you can! Artist Tomás Saraceno installed a 2500 square meters playground at a height of 25 meters in Düsseldorf, Germany. The installation In Orbit consists of a web of transparent nets which makes the experience of walking 25 meters above the ground rather scary yet amusing, I suppose.
A Hitchhiking Spot for Cyclists
The Dutch Cyclists' Union (Fietsersbond) has teamed up with artist Mapije de Wit to create public hitchhiking spots for bicycle riders in the city of Utrecht.
BANGA Project Restores Pop-Up Architecture Of The Early 70s
Originally designed by Carlo Zappa in 1971, the futuristic portable BANGA bungalows get a second life. Restoration architect Pamela Voigt discovered fourteen abandoned BANGAs in an Italian holiday resort. With cracks in the glass-reinforced plastic GRP shells, the structures are in a very bad condition. Voigt has taken up the plan to save the little Italian sister of the famous Finnish Futuro.
New York City Nostalgia In A Bottle
Last week we found something very peculiar in our mailbox: a glass jar filled with, well, to be honest, trash. Two students from Parsons, the New School of Design in New York, clarified the matter for us. Their recent product MissingNYC fits an authentic part of New York City — a favorite neighborhood, park or landmark, whatever it may be — into a small jar that can be carried around as a cure for homesickness, sent to loved ones as a souvenir or made a gift for bloggers across the Atlantic.
100 Interventions In 1 Day In Cape Town
There are music festivals, film festivals, literary festivals, food festivals and so many more. One particular festival, however, is difficult to pinpoint in one word and can only somewhat vaguely be described as a truly and purely 'citizen-driven festival of doing'. Its more catchy name: 100 in 1 Day.
Bye-Bye Barista, Hello Espresso-Robot
That heart-shaped crema from the handsome guy behind the counter the other day — remember that? And the cute waitress who was serving you that hot coffee this morning — remember her? These days may soon be over if this little fella proves to be successful: The Briggo Coffee Haus.
Colorful Crosswalks Make You Dizzy And Stagger
Keep your head down low or you might miss it all! Spread across the world pedestrian crossings are turning into bright and colorful works of art coming straight from the hands of renown artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (born 1923 in Caracas). Already in the 1970s, the Venezuelan artist discovered the streets as a medium for art and has, thus, implemented several interventions in urban spaces before anybody even knew what it meant.
