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Reimagining an Addictive Icon
They once graced the dark corners of America. From the crassly functional to quaint stylized relics of the mid-twentieth century, cigarette vending machines offered instant satisfaction to smokers until their numbers dwindled due to steady changes ...
Collaborative Water Solutions
Following a cross-country trip and a series of works in which she explored the nature of public space, performance artist Betsy Damon realized the importance of social networks in the creation of art ...
Something Old, Something New on Hollywood Boulevard
As a move to counter the miasma of gentrification and celebrate the street's blended heritage--incorporating waves of migration and development, pop culture pilgrimage with lived urban experience--the Los Angeles Forum for ...
Esprit de Corps
During my time as a museum director, I came into regular contact with the US Army Corps of Engineers through the agency’s efforts to explore archaeological sites and promote historic preservation in ...
Biomorphology and Water Sustainability
Andrew Parker, a zoology faculty member at the University of Sydney, built his career exploring ways to model optical technology on the evolutionary adaptations seen in the eyes of animals. He has turned his interest in ...
Qualitative Light
Amsterdam-based artist Joost van Santen created the online Museum of Light and Daylight to explore the relationship between light and landscape, and the ways in which the interaction of the two ...
An Opinion: Designing Outrage
As someone who occasionally does design work I rail against spec work and everything it stands for. As someone who is an objective human being - I have a different perspective. I ...
Seamless Technology Fashion Show
I had the pleasure of attending the third seamless technology fashion show wednesday at the Boston Museum of Science. Highlights included: Ok2Touch, which uses a human powered circuit to play ...
The Aesthetics of Democracy
The visual style of electoral politics has changed dramatically since the early nineteenth century. As depicted by historian Michael McGerr, limitations imposed by printing technology, the widespread use of oral ...
Traffic Space
Bristol-based consultant Ben Hamilton-Baillie and other proponents of Shared Space believe that an urban plan that integrates traffic and human activity more directly will create more accessible public spaces. In ...
Ask a Collaborative Expert
IdeaConectionhelps companies develop new concepts and engage in research without the necessity of maintaining permanent research and development staff. Customers present a problem and set a payment amount, researchers who have ...
Spiral Tree
Relish has created a holiday tree for minimalist families--or those with limited storage space. Star Trees are made from spirals of aluminum that telescope downward to form the cone-like form popular ...
Red Light, Green Light
Cambridge, Massachusetts, based Ambient Devices relies on a 900 MHz network to provide a constant stream of weather, sports, and financial information to its customers. A product offered by the company uses ...
Transportation in Context
The transportation and development process Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) emerged from the 1998 Thinking Beyond the Pavement conference, where participants sought to define a set of professional values that would increase transparency ...
Designing Baseball
One of our favorite designers is at it again. Lokesh Dhakar illustrates baseball pitches so that you can understand them. If you aren't familiar with Lokesh's name, you're probably familiar with ...