Man Transforms His Workspace into Winter Castle Complete With a Working Drawbridge
When his firm started hosting annual competitions for the most festive workplace, this engineer grabbed some cardboard and staples and went all out.
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Instead of Watching Farmers Contribute to Pollution, IKEA is Recycling Their Waste Into Products
IKEA has come up with an ingenious strategy that will benefit rural farmers while simultaneously reducing air pollution by 33%.
Student Creates World's Most Cut-proof Bike Lock
Using modern materials, Felix Ure believes he has succeeded in making a cut-proof bike lock that is indestructible. You will marvel at the innovative design to make it easy to carry while riding.
10 Easy Spring-Cleaning Decorating Resolutions
With spring on the horizon, it's natural to revisit, revise, and resolve to spruce things up in the coming months. Whether you're looking to reinvent your life or just make a few small but important tweaks, here are some starter ideas to help you make your own decorating resolutions - and design the coming months to be your best yet.
The Purrfect House for Cats by Japanese Design Firm
Does it make sense to design homes to cater to the enjoyment of cat and dog pet owners? The demand is there, at least in Japan, where Fauna Plus DeSIGN created a beautiful custom home for 16 cats.
33 Amazing Designs You Wish You Had on Your Home
What would your dream home look like if you had unlimited resources? Would you wrap a cat walkway around the house, or create a mini beach outside your door with a fire pit, or add a slide alongside your stairway? Here are some great examples of homes where people have been able to realize their greatest home design fantasies.
Fashion Photographer Reframes Beauty Focusing on Genetic Conditions
Award winning fashion photographer, Rick Guidotti, worked in Milan, Paris and New York shooting pictures of the world's most beautiful people, until a chance encounter on a Manhattan street changed everything. Rick saw a stunning albino girl at the bus stop. He realized that he could help redefine beauty for these kids and adults with genetic differences everywhere.
Drab to Fab: English Town Colors Rainbow on Beach Inspired by Turkish Steps
A Kent seaside town is today alive with color after volunteers painted its drab gray steps with hues of pink, yellow, lime and violet. A local community group, Ramsgate Town Team, was inspired by a story in the Good News Network about a Turkish man painting dozens of steps in his hometown.
World Smile Day Today Honors Artist Behind the Smiley Face
The bright yellow smiley face is one of the most recognizable, iconic symbols across the globe. What many people don't know is that the original smiley face - which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year - was actually created, not in the way depicted in the humorous 1994 Forest Gump scene, but in Massachusetts by local artist, Harvey Ball.
Designer's Low Cost Solution for Clearing Landmines Uses the Wind
Massoud Hassani grew up in Afghanistan and played every day in nearby fields, surrounded by high mountains. His favorite toy was homemade, a small rolling object that was powered by the wind. 20 years later, his 2011 graduation project was an over-sized replica of that toy -- 20 times bigger and heaver -- created to roll on those same landmines and destroy them.
Preteen Designer Hailed at Fashion Week for Style — and Brains
Fashion prodigy Isabella Rose Taylor isn't just an artist, painter and designer, the pre-teen girl from Austin is a super student who just started college. But she is being celebrated this week for her style line at this week's NY Fashion Week.
Aspiring Baker Quits Job Handing in Resignation on a Cake
In what might be the sweetest resignation story ever told, Chris Holmes, 31, quit his secure airport job in England by handing in a cake printed with a message saying, he was quitting.
How a 21-Year-Old Design Student's Sleeping-Bag Coat Could Break The Cycle Of Homelessness
A 21-year-old design student in Detroit redesigned the winter coat to help homeless people suffering from relentlessly cold winters. The ankle-length Element S is hooded, self-heated and waterproof, but it also transforms into a sleeping bag at night. Not only that, her Detroit Empowerment Plan envisioned that the coat be made by a group of homeless women who are paid minimum wage, and fed and housed while creating the coats. The plan now creates jobs for those who desire them and coats for those who need them at no cost.
Clothing Co. Owned by Ralph Lauren Promotes Hand-crafted Line Made In USA
While the Club Monaco brand was born in Canada in 1985, it changed nationalities when the Ralph Lauren group acquired it in 1999 and is now offering a Made in the U.S.A. line. The collection is sewn by artisan hands up and down the Eastern seaboard and includes a line of casual shirts, jackets, ties and trousers, all manufactured in different workshops in the United States.
New York City Pay Phones Get 21st Century Makeover
You can still see more than 10,000 coin-operated phones around New York City today. What seems a relic of the past in this age of mobile technology, became a vital link in an emergency for those who had no power to charge their devices during Hurricane Sandy. Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched a design contest to reinvent the lowly payphone and bring it into the 21st Century.
Amazing 3-D Light Festival Creates Illusions on Sydney Landmarks
Australia's Festival of Lights is transforming Sydney's famous landmarks using wild imagination and cutting edge 3-D projectors beaming images from a distance. The evening lit sails of the iconic Opera House overlooking the harbor suddenly appeared to break out in cracks and holes, with a giant woman tip-toeing across the surface.
Skyscrapers Designed To Make You Happy If You Work In Them
The definition of what it means to be sustainable in the 21st century needs to be broadened to include a skyscraper's ability to sustain the human spirit, says a design director at Gensler. Imagine energy efficient towers whose walls might slide open, allowing office workers to step outside, into the sky, for a breath of fresh air. Towers where seasonal gardens grow vertically and where friends might meet by a kumquat tree on the 68th floor for a cup of coffee on a beautiful spring day.
Check Out the Surprising Products Being Made From Coffee Grounds
More and more, we're seeing brilliant uses for household items once discarded as trash. You will never look at coffee grounds the same way.
Brazil's Painted Streets Bring Joy to its People
Painting the streets in Brazil has become an annual tradition, bringing generations of soccer fans together and spreading joy and pride throughout the community. With the help of Google Maps, people around the world can see how the green and yellow enthusiasm is brought to life in every neighborhood. (Watch)
Ultra-Strong Bridge Made of Cardboard Inspires Shelter Design
There's reducing, reusing, recycling—and then, there's an architect who transforms cardboard tubes into miracle building materials.
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