Making Abandoned Homes Look Occupied Is a Booming American Business
The foreclosure crisis recently left thousands of vacant homes standing across the USA. Making them look occupied is one possible solution to avoid any form of blight.
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The foreclosure crisis recently left thousands of vacant homes standing across the USA. Making them look occupied is one possible solution to avoid any form of blight.
These neat and perfect infinite loops are made by Canadian graphic designer and 3D artist Gareth Fowler.
It's no secret that the whole 3D-thing didn't revolutionise the cinema-going experience—the second time around. It's clearly because these didn't exist before now.
There's a new type of electricity pylon!!!
Meet the designers and researchers working hard to create typefaces that are legible on Apple Watch and other tiny displays.
Adobe’s video software has been updated, and one of the coolest new features is Character Animator. It tracks your movements through a webcam, and maps them onto any custom-made character you want. Read more >
Exhibition curator stumbles across the Haas Unica font after it had sat for years in hiding.
Full-face helmets are usually bulky and unsuited to mountain bikers, despite the growing need for better protection among these cyclists. Enter this new Kali Protectives Shiva, the smallest and lightest helmet of its kind ever made. Read more >
When it comes to drugs, it can be difficult to explain in words how different highs feel. This wonderfully minimalist poster series by Meaghan Li has a go at depicting them. See more >
After a year of designing and testing, they perfected a chair made with a PVC pipe frame that weighs just over nine kilos, but can actually support a child up to 23 kilos.
If you thought a pair of large wheels was the only petrol-free way to get around a city, you've clearly forgotten about the innovative Halfbike. But that's OK, because there's now a new and improved version
Interstellar's awesome robot TARS has been faithfully recreated, packed with tech, and sent off to Seattle Comic Con to show off its stuff. See more >
Calling all mega-prepared Jurassic World fans who are looking for Halloween costume ideas: try this retracting-wing pterodactyl get-up, made from recyclable cardboard. Read more >
The well-designed signage offers no ambiguity whatsoever when it comes to where you can park, when you can park there, and how much it will cost.
This watch's face is a random mess of numbers, yet somehow it still manages to tell the time perfectly. Read More >>
His true passion might be designing and building some of the most ridiculous slingshots the internet has ever seen, but even Joerg Sprave needs to stretch his creative wings from time to time.
