Apple may be notoriously tight-lipped about what it's working on, but that's never stopped it from having just a little bit of fun with teasing what's to come. From subtle wordplay to carefully chosen imagery, Apple has a history of dropping hints and hiding details about its next announcement...
To read between the lines of Tuesday's iPad event, look at the past
It might seem like a strange artistic effort to build a piece that meant to destroy itself, but that's what Thijs Rijker did with his industrial art series titled "Suicide Machines." So far, he's built two pieces eventually designed to destroy themselves — one is a self-powered saw that...
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt museum recently handed out its 2013 National Design Awards. Intended to celebrate "design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world," the awards were first established in 2000 by the White House Millennium Council, and have gone on to become an annual tradition ever since. Leading the recipients this year is James Wines, who has earned a lifetime...
This furniture can hold itself together. A San Francisco-based designer named Robby Cuthbert has created architectural furniture made from wood and steel cables. The rows of cables in his chairs, lamps, and tables are placed precisely to maintain stability and strength through tension alone, similar to a suspension bridge. The pieces don't use adhesives or fasteners to stay together, and the result is truly furniture-meets-sculpture. Cuthbert says he studied architecture in college, and he explains on his site that laser cutters and 3D printers are key to his work. You can see more of his furniture at his website, and they're available to purchase on Etsy.
Inspired by suspension bridges
"I was bored with everything being static in my visual world," artist Anthony Howe told The Creators Project about his new work — a series of so-called "kinetic sculptures." These kinetic sculptures are hardly static — thanks to the wind, they move in mesmerizing patterns that The Creators...
Designer François Chambard has breathed new life into the theremin with a playful new collection on display in New York. Chambard, founder of the Brooklyn-based studio UM Project, created 12 theremins for an exhibition called Odd Harmonics,...
What if you woke up one day to find a Banksy on your building? For the past weeks a handful of New Yorkers have been forced to answer that question as the street artist has surreptitiously completed new work across the city over his month-long residency. Cara Tabachnick, who...
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