‘Shared Space’ Design: Road Signs Suck. What If We Got Rid of Them All?

The current culture of heavily regulated and data-driven auto safety engineering did not always exist

Biomimicry: How Designers Are Learning from the Natural World

Changing Lanes

The arrival of the stethoscope transformed diagnostics and fundamentally reshaped how doctors think about disease

The rise of dunking and the three-point shot

Paint and Press: “Pirate Printer” Turns Street Graphics into Clothing Patterns

How to Tell the Difference Between Streets, Avenues, Ways, Lanes and More

Hills Hoist: The Giant-Sized Backyard Swiss Army Knife

Dangerous Skyscrapers Channel Wind and Sun, Topple Pedestrians and Start Fires

Modern Hieroglyphs: Binary Logic Behind the Universal “Power Symbol”

Earth Defense: Shaking Buildings in the World’s Largest Earthquake Simulator

Death by Tactile Paving

What Style Is That House? Visual Guides to Domestic Architectural Designs

Pythagorean Cup: Practical Joke Chalice Overflows with Ancient Greek Humor

The Architecture of Evil: Dystopian Megacorps in Speculative Fiction Films

Urban Train Track Doubles as Shopping Alley in Thailand

Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrastructure Permanent

Butterfly Effects: Good Ballot Design Is Critical for Democracy

McMansion Hell: The Devil Is in the Details

The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”

Project Cybersyn: Socialism Through Cybernetics

"Internet of Things" meet: "Library of Things" - libraries are starting to offer household tools, book-printing machines and 3D-printing labs.

Everyday ‘Placebo Buttons’ Create Semblance of Control

Farmers Plant Beehive Guard Posts to Repel Elephants

The Magic Bureaucrat and His Riverside Miracle

A Sea Worth Its Salt

Fact Follows Fiction: Real Bridges Based on Euro Banknote Artwork

Shared Space: Balancing Astronomical Ads, Artificial Lights and Starry Nights

Unpleasant Design

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