Design

August 23, 2016

Dress Submerged in Dead Sea Transforms Into Glimmering Salt-Covered Masterpiece

Israeli artist Sigalit Landau has a special reverence for the Dead Sea. From her childhood home on a hill in Jerusalem, she looked out on the northern banks of the briny waters, and her family visited its shores on weekends. Its influence now filters through her creative work as both milieu and material—as much literal as symbolic of the surreal and spiritual realms.

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August 17, 2016

Unique Tables Designed to Look Like Animals Are Half-Submerged in Water

Designer Derek Pearce has expanded the possibilities of everyday furniture with his enchanting Water Tables. Each one integrates an animal as both its base and a crucial aesthetic element: the body of the creature seems to comes up through the glass tabletop to create the illusion that it’s floating freely in a river or lake. In one of Pearce’s works, an otter bobs gleefully on its back between two rocks.

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August 13, 2016

Smart Toaster Works with Ingenious App to Toast Your Bread Into Any Image You Want

Tired of eating the same boring, plain toast with butter every morning for breakfast? Toasteroid‘s “smart-toaster” lets you create your own designs that bake right onto the bread as it toasts. Just download the Toasteroid mobile app, connect your smartphone to Bluetooth, pop your bread in the silver sleek companion toaster, and you are ready to start designing your one-of-a-kind toast. Users can select either Toasteroid templates or doodle their own toast-worthy image.

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August 6, 2016

DNA-Shaped Suspension Bridge Inspired by Olympic Games’ Five Rings

Architecture firm Penda and engineering firm Arup have teamed up to undertake the ambitious goal of redesigning the suspension bridge, with their newly commissioned project to build the San Shan Bridge in China. The bridge will be completed in time for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, and will span across the Gui River connecting Beijing’s city center to Zhangjiakou.

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