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Read the best design articles from around the internet, or watch the most insightful design videos from platforms like Youtube, Vimeo or leading design publishers like Dezeen, Design Taxi, Design You Can Trust, Deisgnboom and many more.

A Stunning 4K Timelapse Of The Gunhilde Maersk

A Stunning 4K Timelapse Of The Gunhilde Maersk

Design Videos

A stunning 4K timelapse of container ship Gunhilde Maersk at sea from Ho-Chi Minh City, Vietnam to Ningbo, China and the incredible loading sequences at each port. A montage of over 78,000 5D Mk3 RAW files. Edited by Toby Smith to create a stunning day to night sequence in 4K.

What Happened To Giant Flying Boats? The Saunders-Roe Princess Story

What Happened To Giant Flying Boats? The Saunders-Roe Princess Story

Business Design History Videos

In 1943, Saunders-Roe, an iconic British aircraft builder, began planning for the future by drafting a design for a truly next-generation flying boat. But by the time the Princess took its first flight, the world had been completely transformed by the rapid development of runways and advances in land-based aircraft.

Ripples Of Time Sand Clock By Studio Ayaskan

Ripples Of Time Sand Clock By Studio Ayaskan

Art Design Innovation Videos

The Ripples of Time Sand Clock allows natural materials to be shaped by time, reminding us of its presence. The installation consists of two complementary clocks; Sand and Water. Sand, inspired by Zen Gardens, is the gradual formation and flattening of a ripple pattern over a period of twelve-hour cycles.

Coroflot Mobile Work Unit, Where Mobility And Creative Talent Come Together

Coroflot Mobile Work Unit, Where Mobility And Creative Talent Come Together

Architecture Design

Coroflot, a website dedicated to connecting designers with creative professional opportunities, is excited to introduce the Mobile Work Unit (MWU). The concept for the trailer-office grew from a desire to create a space solution that referenced both the mobility and creative talent of the Coroflot community.

Adobe Fresco Drawing And Painting App

Adobe Fresco Drawing And Painting App

Apps Design Innovation Tech

Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app built especially for Apple Pencil and designed for artists who draw professionally or paint for passion. It brings together the world’s largest collection of vector and raster brushes, plus revolutionary new Live Brushes, to deliver a completely natural painting and drawing experience.

Virginia Mori

Inspiration
Virginia Mori
A New Start-Up Wants To Use AI To Replace "Expensive, Architect-Designed" Homes

A New Start-Up Wants To Use AI To Replace "Expensive, Architect-Designed" Homes

Architecture Design Innovation Tech

Tech start-up Higharc aims to “reinvent home design for the digital age.” The company uses iterative design to create “custom” 3D models and plans. Algorithmic design isn’t new to architecture, but it looks like Higharc seeks to do away with “expensive, architect-designed plans that take forever to produce.”

XTU Architects Imagines Offshore Oil Rigs Transformed Into Radical Housing Of The Future

XTU Architects Imagines Offshore Oil Rigs Transformed Into Radical Housing Of The Future

Architecture Design Innovation

No stranger to an unconventional project, XTU Architects presents their latest fantastical proposal titled ‘x_lands’. The concept looks at life after oil, and in particular, what to do with all the offshore platforms that have been built in the last century to drill for the earth’s natural resources.

How The Dumb Design Of A WWII Plane Led To The Macintosh

How The Dumb Design Of A WWII Plane Led To The Macintosh

Design Explainers History Tech

For all the triumph of America’s new planes and tanks during World War II, a silent reaper stalked the battlefield: accidental deaths and mysterious crashes that no amount of training ever seemed to fix. At first, pilots took the blame for crashes. The true cause, however, lay with the design. That lesson led us into our user-friendly age—but there’s peril to come.

3D Printed Housing For Those Who Need It Most

3D Printed Housing For Those Who Need It Most

Architecture Design Innovation Videos

New Story, ICON, and Échale have completed the first two printed homes in the world’s first 3D printed community in Mexico. The 3D printed homes feature two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and bath. Co-designed with feedback from the families who will live in them, the homes have been created to meet the specific needs of the community.

Matt Rota

Inspiration
Matt Rota
Skinny Home In Toronto As Prototype For Parking-Space Homes?

Skinny Home In Toronto As Prototype For Parking-Space Homes?

Architecture Cities Design Videos

When Cyril Borovsky bought a 16-foot-wide strip of land in Toronto sandwiched between two bungalows, he knew the only way to fit more than one bedroom on the tiny footprint was to think cubically. Using a steel frame and performing much of the work himself- with just a boom lift and makeshift pulley-, he went up four floors.

Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio Proposes Cantilevering Glass Pool Over Norwegian Fjord

Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio Proposes Cantilevering Glass Pool Over Norwegian Fjord

Architecture Design

Istanbul practice Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio proposed building the hotel on a site 600-metres-high on Preikestolen – a steep cliff and popular tourist spot in the west of Norway that overhangs the Lysefjorden fjord. It is intended to recreate the thrill of embarking on hiking trails around the cliff.

The Rise Of The Wind Ships

The Rise Of The Wind Ships

Design Innovation Nature

Commercial shipping – for many years resistant to the low carbon revolution sweeping other areas of transportation – is changing fast. Could a new generation of innovative propulsion technologies that harness the power of the wind help the shipping industry clean up its act?

TRS Studio Envisions Shipping Containers As Affordable Housing In Peru

TRS Studio Envisions Shipping Containers As Affordable Housing In Peru

Architecture Design

Two shipping containers are joined together and topped by an angular polycarbonate extension in this conceptual design for low-cost housing by Peruvian firm TRS Studio. TRS Studio designed the speculative dwellings for communities that struggle with housing issues and lack resources to devote to buying construction materials.

Joseph Ford

Inspiration
Joseph Ford
James Niehues: The Man Behind The Map

James Niehues: The Man Behind The Map

Art Design Videos

If you are a skier or snowboarder, there is a good chance James Niehues has been your mountain guide. Throughout his 30 year career he has worked at the smallest hills and the most expansive resorts in North America. James has extensively researched, photographed and illustrated nearly every ski map used in North America over the last three decades.

How Advertising Conquered Urban Space

How Advertising Conquered Urban Space

Cities Design Media

In cities around the world, advertising is everywhere. We may try to shut it out, but it reflects who we are (or want to be) and connects us to the urban past. Local signs connect us to the past, to vernacular styles, to folklore. The best examples catch our eye as children and stay with us.

How Typefaces Influence You

How Typefaces Influence You

Design Explainers

A typeface choice could influence your perception of people running for school board seats, the lawyer opening a new law office, or the coffee shop you never noticed before.

The Golden Ratio: Design’s Biggest Myth

The Golden Ratio: Design’s Biggest Myth

Architecture Design

In the world of art, architecture, and design, the golden ratio has earned a tremendous reputation. The Parthenon, the Pyramids at Giza, the paintings of Michelangelo, the Mona Lisa, even the Apple logo are all said to incorporate it. The golden ratio’s aesthetic bona fides are an urban legend, a myth, a design unicorn.

Crumpled, Highly Realistic Drawings By Bella McGoldrick

Crumpled, Highly Realistic Drawings By Bella McGoldrick

Art Design

Bella McGoldrick has a series of hyper-realistic drawings, using crumpled bags, boxes, and concert tickets as subject matter. The wrinkled, smashed, and folded material presents a complex web of shadows and reflections, making the drawings all the more difficult to compose.

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