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The design team at Nendo knew they’d need a way to connect the three generations—and eight cats—living inside a newly constructed home in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, so they created an enormous staircase. Spanning from the outdoor garden to the third floor, the steel-and-concrete structure isn’t…
Lacking the traditional sport and tournament themes of previous years, the official posters for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games are taking a different approach to championing the celebrated contests. Organizers gathered work from Japanese and international artists with a range of styles…
Designed by Spanish architects SelgasCano, a Los Angeles workspace has popped up in a formerly empty parking lot in Hollywood. The recently opened SecondHome Hollywood boasts a 50,000-square-foot garden of 6,500 trees and plants and 700 tons of soil and vegetation. It is Los Angeles’s densest urban…
I spent 2004–2006 working at Apple as a UI engineer for their online store. Part of my job was to prototype concepts that would add some interactive sparkle to the site. One such project improved the “Personalize your iPod” page, where customers could submit two lines of text to be engraved on the…
Here’s a slightly updated version of a card game I made in 2014. It was originally targeted at the iPad, but for the purposes of this post I’ve altered it to work on any size screen. Essentially it’s a card matching game. Find two matching cards that have an edge or corner touching each other,…
Drawing has always been something I’ve approached with a great deal of unearned confidence. Each time I sit down to sketch I feel sure I’ll be able to capture the subject with a few strokes of a pen, but the end results never seem that different from the drawings I made as a child. That was again…
A couple of years ago I made a small tipi for my nieces and nephews to play with. Nothing human sized, but big enough for them to get some dolls and cars inside. I thought I’d outline how I put it together. The first thing I did was make the poles. I found a stick of walnut in my parts bin and ran…
In late 2017 I started learning how to make CGI hair in Blender. I’d watched some videos from Pixar showing how their fur and hair technology had improved over the years, and it seemed like a fun area to explore myself. The hair I knew best belonged to Sam, and I wondered if I could reproduce his…
I have quite a lot of scrap wood in my workshop. I usually get it from cabinet shops that are having a clear out, or from sidewalks where people have dumped it. It mostly just sits in the corner taking up space, but occasionally I find a use for it. In 2015 I tried making some dishes out of the…
There’s a traffic jam on Miami Beach thanks to Leandro Erlich. Erlich’s installation, titled “Order of Importance,” is an effort to put conversations surrounding climate change front and center. Commissioned by the city of Miami Beach and curated by Ximena Caminos and Brandi Reddick, the…
Exposure: Olivia Crumm Speaking to Gem Fletcher, the photographer shares the story behind her series Wake, which has been shortlisted for the Aperture portfolio prize, and discusses family, grief and the psychology of making portraits Inside the BFI’s new online video archive From early Flash…
Why it’s time to take ugliness seriously The trend for brands using hand-written fonts and messy aesthetics is more than just fashion, it’s a reaction against big tech and AI, says Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick, author of the Trend Report newsletter The Monthly Interview: Burnermunde From viral skits to…
Care France campaign links rising temperatures to domestic violence The OOH work from agency Belle, titled Degree of Violence, highlights how climate change affects women and vulnerable communities Anaïs Odoux on making collage her creative playground The French designer and illustrator reflects on…
This past weekend, British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled “The Fallen 9000,” the piece is meant as a stark visual…