design

So you feel like you could design your own dress, order it online fit to your exact measurements and have it delivered? Good for you! Now there’s a website that allows you to do just that. The catch? All the dresses they show in their photos are incredibly ugly....

With the recent development at CERN of a more stable anti-matter, it’s beginning to become evident that there might be dangers involved. Much like with radio-activity, anti-matter, if put in contact with, let’s say arbitrarily, a human being, could be hazardous. The way I understand anti-matter, it is the...

The Spanish resort town of Alicante has thrown a curve ball at boozy tourists in the form of some crazy paving that apparently plays tricks on both eyes and stomachs. From Metro: Set in rows of diamonds at 90 degrees to each other, the opposing slabs create an optical...

Mike Cooper has a family tradition of creating “increasingly ridiculous” birthday cakes for his family members. His latest, a playable Angry Birds cake was made in honor of his son’s sixth birthday. Cooper spent 10 hours putting it together and his son spent two minutes destroying it, but memories...

A truly amazing story about a talented artist, who should have been famous, had she actually been discovered. One can only hope her story is eventually told, if only so the world can see life through the eyes of a nanny at a time when life was simpler, and...

Fallingwater is arguably one of the most famous houses on the planet, so it makes sense that we would see it in gingerbread. Melodie and Brenton painstakingly recreated the architectural masterpiece out of 12 square feet of gingerbread dough. •It took over 12 hours to design •It took Brenton...

I’m sure that I am not alone in thinking that these retro icons, as woven by artist Micah Schippa in his tools-at-hand collection, would make really cool cushion covers. A nice, but not overtly geeky, way to pay homage to our technological roots. You can check out Schippa’s work...

Meet “Ron” (if that is his real name). He is putting his stainless steel appendage to good use making the neighborhood safer and amusing fellow members of the Hampshire Constabulary. Design fails don’t come any better or more amusing than this....

If you live within striking distance of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you might want to head down there to check out the enormous Hot Wheels track that artist Chris Burden has put on display. Watching the 1,200 cars and 13 trains zipping around Metropolis II (mostly...