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These skyscrapers are designed to make you happy if you work in them.
This isn’t a dog house. This is dog architecture.
The Lit C-1 doesn’t look like any car you’ve ever seen, but it still can go 120 miles per hour and gets 200 miles on each charge. Will people embrace the futuristic design enough to make the startup a success?
A trip down memory (“memory” - get it? get it?) lane: Microsoft design flops through the ages.
The dust has only just settled on London, but the Rio ‘16 committee has already finalized the typography of the next summer games.
Words cannot express how much we want to bounce across the Seine on a trampoline bridge.
This. Would. Be. Fun.
For flowers that are so naturally elegant, domestic orchids are seriously design-challenged. Not the blooms themselves, of course—it’s that unsightly but ubiquitous stick-and-teensy-hair-clip combo that keeps the stems standing tall.
Yeonju Yang, half of London-based studio Yang:Ripol, had been regularly tending to these particular blossoms for almost five years before reaching a kind of creative epiphany.
“It’s funny how sometimes things stare at you in the face for so long until the designer mind clicks in and you realize—here is actually a problem which needs resolving,” he tells Co.Design.
How much did you pay for your car? The Coren, by UBC, is a $32,000 fixed gear bike made from carbon fiber.
We had an amazing time at last night’s Innovation By Design Awards event! Thanks to everyone who celebrated with us. Here’s the list of winners.
Above: Continuum Innovation CEO Harry West (Continuum won the Concepts award for the Leveraged Freedom Chair), Fast Company Executive Editor Noah Robischon and Fast Company Senior Writer Ellen McGirt, Creative Director at Billionaire Boys Club & Ice Cream LLC Christopher Bevans, Fast Company CTO Matt Mankins and Fast Company Designer Claire Eckstrom, Cooper-Hewitt Curatorial Director Cara McCarty and Facebook Director of Product Design Margaret Stewart, Moonbot Studios’ Brandon Oldenburg and William Joyce (finalists in the Interactive Design category), Fjord’s Nour Diab Yunes.
The Canopea project—winners of Europe’s Solar Decathalon—takes the best from both high-tech and natural solutions to create a city of stackable “nanotowers.”
Tonight we’re gathering in New York City for our 2012 Innovation By Design Awards celebration! Check out the handsome prize we’re handing out tonight, and learn more about the trophy’s design here.
Who among us hasn’t, at one point or another, hunkered down inside and stared out through a crystal-clear pane, letting the mind wander and daydreams flutter through and stay a while?
Seoul-born, Stockholm-based designer Mars HwaSung Yoo used imagination and memories as the starting point for a new chair he was working on, which led him to the idea of ancient window forms.
“They have a sense of place, invite us to sit, and play a variety of roles in their long history as architectural elements,” Yoo tells Co.Design. “After I had the concept, all parts of the window had to be redefined to support the function of a chair; it didn’t have to be an exact replica.” Instead, he focused on bringing this aged craft into the present with a handmade aesthetic.
