Kranium- A Cardboard Helmet

We are always on the lookout these days for interesting cardboard applications and there is much to learn from this bicycle helmet by Kranium Design. Of particular interest is its water resistance. It is dipped in a water-based coating, …

Happy Halloween!

In honor of today’s celebrations, I am highlighting the genius of Nathan at HaHa Bird, who has artfully melded design, technology and a DIY spirit into a Halloween pumpkin that plays Tetris. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Pumpktris!…

1425 T Street- The Alley of Doom!

This was on NPR yesterday:

For one day, anyone who showed up to this alley in the U Street neighborhood of Washington, D.C., could take a free turn at playing Indiana Jones — donning a fedora and whip and fleeing

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Cardboard Bicycle- What Else Can This Material Do?

Izhar cardboard bike project from Giora Kariv on Vimeo.

Hard to believe this bike is made out of cardboard and not just the frame, but the moving parts like the cranks and the wheels, too! Sturdy and waterproof (once …

Creative Chain-link

After finding so many nice examples of ornamental wrought iron fences, gates, and railings around town, my thoughts turned to the other extreme; the ubiquitous, utilitarian and utterly banal chain-link fence. There’s a reason it is so often used–it’s …

Penn Quarter Bodega in the News

A new article in the Communities at WashingtonTimes.com about our friend and client, June Blanks, and her quest to bring a bodega to the Penn Quarter.

She says, “I would never have thought this before I moved to the middle

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Create Your Own Panoramas- 360 Panorama App

Grabbed this app while it was free and tried it out today. Very simple to use, just slowly pan around the scene you want to capture with your phone and, “voila!”, a panorama is stitched together for you without having …

2012 Olympic Cauldron- Heatherwick Studio Does it Again

The 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremonies in London concluded last night with the lighting of the Olympic Flame. I for one, think the design of the cauldron is really great, eschewing the typical hagiographic focus on the torch bearer and instead …

Tiny Apartment Design- How About a Bathtub Under the Dining Room Table?

Always a sucker for tiny apartments, I saw this today and had to repost. A somewhat different take on the theme of space flexibility / convertibility, this Barcelona architect kept the bed in place and opted to add a bathtub …