[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
Photo credit: Jeremy Meyer
Tahoe City, Calif.-based artist Jeremy Mayer’s mechanical, steampunk-esque creatures are the subject of Wired.com’s latest slide show. Assembled from vintage typewriter parts without welding, soldering, or gluing, his recycled sculptures range from lithe, 18-inch-long mecha-crickets to seven-foot-tall aluminum skeletons that weigh between 60 to 100 pounds.
A full-size human figure takes Mayer around […]
We all know that compact fluorescent bulbs will save you money and energy, but they continue to get a bad rap for the unflattering light they throw—despite the leaps and bounds the CFL industry has made in quality. Here to the rescue are the editors of Real Simple, who tested 30 of the spiral-shape bulbs […]
Image: Matthew Malone
With the devastating myriad of natural disasters now becoming more and more commonplace, is it possible to design a more effective relief response that won’t echo the shamefully negligent FEMA trailer fiasco? Though it looks a little flimsy and a little too much like a second-year design studio project, designers Matthew Malone, Amanda […]
Rotating houses are not a new idea, and have some real advantages; they can follow the sun to maximize passive solar heating in cool weather and shading in warm; solar panels can track the sun along with the house and generate power and heat more efficiently. It doesn’t take much power to move a house […]
Last week in this column, I talked about several ways for raising energy efficiency mainly through recycling. Raising the energy efficiency of the materials we use commensurately cuts carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. (You may want to see our overall plan to cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020, Time for Plan B, summarized from Plan […]
Sarah Palin’s office in Anchorage. Love the sofa, not certain about the Alaska king crab on the table. ::New York Times…
Industrial design site Core77 runs incredible contests where designers are supposed to spend no more than an hour coming up with responses to a challenge; in this case it was to reinvent the backpack. Whenever they do these things I can never believe a) that they actually do it in a hour, and b) how […]
Greg at Workalicious notes that back in the day they had “open office, team building, things have come so far, and yet not at all..!”
I think there are other features worth noting as well:
the worker bees get the windows
the ceiling is high to let light and air penetrate more deeply
there is no suspended ceiling to […]
With kids across America heading back to school there’s no better time to take a look at a unique line of notebooks that just may make a difference while helping them realize the importance of considering their paper usage on a daily basis as The Banana Paper Company has put out these spiral notebooks with […]
guys in helmets
Whenever we do a post about bike helmets, we get a controversy in comments that often includes statements like “Nowhere that has introduced a helmet law or considerable helmet promotion has been able to demonstrate any reduction in risk to cyclists.”
Well, now they have. A new study released in the Journal of […]