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Morpholio 2.0: A Portfolio App With A Built-In Studio Crit
The Morpholio portfolio app relaunches with seven tools that promise to change the way you design. Anyone who went to architecture or design school knows that studio is a mean but formative experience. We like to pretend we’re idea-shamans...Show More Summary
Back To The Future: Why Retro-Innovation Is The Next Big Thing
How do you make the customer experience full of longing? Create exclusivity and make your product feel ephemeral. Against an accelerating backdrop of datafication, a “retro-innovation” trend is emerging. New products and services are designed to connect us with the past in ways that are both nostalgic and interactive. Show More Summary
Documentary Holography
[Image: A "detail theft" by ScanLAB Projects].
ScanLAB Projects, a reliably interesting and enthusiastic design-research duo formed by Bartlett graduates Matthew Shaw and William Trossell, explores, in their words, "the potential of large scale terrestrial laser scanning as a tool for design, visualization and fabrication. Show More Summary
In Bid For Design Cred, Accenture Acquires Fjord
Fjord, the service design firm, is being acquired by the consulting goliath Accenture. For many young entrepreneurs out in Silicon Valley, the start-up path doesn’t lead to fabulous independent success. It leads to acquisition. Today’s...Show More Summary
An Artist Attempts To Draw All The Buildings In New York
John Gulliver Hancock still has a ways to go, but you can check his progress so far in a new book. John Gulliver Hancock has an obsession. The artist has taken it upon himself to draw every building in New York, an ambitious goal that...Show More Summary
On the Rise
[Image: A Galveston house on stilts, courtesy of the Galveston County Museum, Galveston, Texas, via Science Friday].
Following the catastrophic hurricane of 1900, the city of Galveston, Texas, was vertically raised up to 17 feet from...Show More Summary
Shapes from the Dream Mine
[Image: Tunnel House, Dream Mine, Johnson Creek, Abajo Mountains, San Juan County, Utah (1915); courtesy of the USGS].
I don't have much to say about this image, other than it depicts the architectural workings of something called the...Show More Summary
Make Both Abstract Art And Techno Beats With This Minimalist Music App
LET THE BEAT DROP--but first, can you draw me a tetrahedron? The earliest musical notation was chiseled on stone tablets in cuneiform, but it wasn’t until the Classical era of music that we developed the standard arrangement of notes on bars we know so well today. Show More Summary
Kickstarting: Sigmund Freud’s Handwriting As A Scrawling Typeface
Just don’t write a letter to your mother with it. Harald Geisler is a bit obsessed with handwriting. He spent two and a half months re-creating Albert Einstein’s penmanship. Then he created a romantic script just for lovers. Now, thanks to a well-funded Kickstarter campaign, he’s taking on one of the most radical thinkers of the last century. Show More Summary
Surreal Photos Of The World’s Most Miraculous Plane Crash Sites
Dietmar Eckell traveled the globe documenting the remains of aviation miracles--plane crashes in the middle of nowhere, in which everyone survived. Dietmar Eckell is a photographer with the soul of an archaeologist, forever fascinated with the tension between long-forgotten man-made ruins and the natural landscape that eventually envelops them. Show More Summary
Are These the 10 Buildings That Shaped America?
The PBS special, 10 Buildings That Changed America, examines the buildings that define our cultural history and shape the cities and towns we live in. Should these have made the cut? Find out which 10 won and why. Architecture matters, just not in the way it does to architects. Show More Summary
Adobe: There Will Be No Creative Suite 7
No Illustrator CS7? No Photoshop CS7? What’s going on?? Many design firms buy the new Adobe Creative Suite whenever it comes out. After all, the software is a mainstay for anyone who creates on computers. But today, Adobe has announced that there will be no Creative Suite 7. Show More Summary
Infographic: Visualizing All 168 Cover Versions Of “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Peter Crnokrak listened to lots of Joy Division wannabes to put this together. “I first heard 'Love Will Tear Us Apart’ in a basement nightclub in Detroit in 1985,” Peter Crnokrak tells Co.Design. “I was quite young at the time, and it left an indelible impression--due, in no small part, to the romantic decay of ruins that was Detroit in the '80s. Show More Summary
A Short Survey of Architectural Publishing
The new World-Architects eMagazine includes "A Short Survey of Architectural Publishing," made up of some Q&As I conducted with ten publishers. Click the link above or image below to read the piece. What is the state of architectural...Show More Summary
BuilderBytes' MetroIntelligence Economic Update for 5/6/13
Please click here to see the edition of BuilderBytes for 5 /6/13 on the Web. In this issue of the MetroIntelligence Economic Update, I covered the following indicator: Employment rose by 165,000 jobs in April; previous months' totals...Show More Summary
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A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates:
This week's dose features 101 Spring Street in New York City by Architecture Research Office:
The featured past dose is Art et Industrie in New York City by Architecture Research Office:
This week's...Show More Summary
A Micro Loft Designed For Maximum Impact
New York architects demonstrate just how good micro-living can be with their surprisingly spacious, multilevel Manhattan Micro Loft. Design constraints can breed invention. Few have tested this thesis more fully, perhaps, than architects...Show More Summary
How Big Data Is Rewriting Hollywood Scripts
Ever wonder why all movies seem to look the same? Yeah, there’s a reason. I honestly can’t tell horror movies apart. From set and costume design to the trailers that all seem to have the same…tempo…of…HE’S RIGHT THERE, OMG!!--novelty has clearly given way to successful tropes and generic market testing. Show More Summary
Watch: Our Deepest Fears, Revealed By Google Auto-Complete
Google’s Suggest tool is often as hilarious as it is shameful. But in this short video, it highlights the evolving insecurities of life. “I’m 10 and pregnant.” It pops up in the white auto-suggest drop-down before your finger can even leave the zero key. Show More Summary
A Modular Stretcher That Assembles Under Bodies, To Prevent More Injury
A design student reimagines the stretcher with the aim of preventing secondary injuries. Even if you have zero medical training, you probably know this: when somebody breaks a bone, you want to immobilize it as quickly as possible. Danny...Show More Summary
