A Virtual Tiger Stalks Paris, Projection Mapping from a Car
Here’s guerrilla projection taken to a whole new level: hitting the pavement, doing it from a moving object. Hit the road, jack.
The result: a digital tiger that appears to “run” ac...
Red Bull Music Academy by Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos
Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos filled a Madrid warehouse with makeshift huts and a wilderness of plants to accommodate a nomadic music academy organised by drinks brand Red Bull. (more&...
FIBER Festival, Amsterdam, a Trailer of the Moment, and Visual Networking
Producing slick trailers for electronic and audiovisual events has become all the rage lately, it seems. This one from FIBER Festival is especially lovely, in that it sets the darkly moody ambience o...
MATERIALICA: Materials-Based Design Competition
As someone who has to go through a lot of international press releases, I always admire the precise, no-nonsense wording of a proper German missive. "Outline your innovative competence by participati...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: Story
We took a drive with the founder of a new retail concept store based in NYC
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In this video we meet Rachel Shechtman, founder of the new retail concept shop, Story. Sponso...
Follow-Up: Google's Goggles Come Into Focus
Google's working on a new device, a pair of augmented reality glasses that've been all but confirmed by the New York Times. We looked at this idea a couple months back--now here's what's new.The New Y...
Projection screen using latex paint and sand blasting beads
This method of building your own projection screen is new to us. [Sean Michael Ragan] ran across some sand blasting material made up of minuscule glass beads at Harbor Freight and inspiration struc...
Ask MAKE: Modding Vacuum Tubes with LEDs
Bob asks:
I saw your article on the LED mod for old tubes . I have a box full and would like to do an array of tubes but I have no clue as to how to wire , power supplies etc. I can do the mechanica...
Dezeen Screen: golden spider-silk cape
Dezeen Screen: in this movie from the V&A museum in London, Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley talk about the golden cape they made by harvesting silk from over a million wild spiders in Madagascar...
SAMIZDAT publication
SAMIZDAT publication is now being distributed online: samizdat-pub.tumblr.com
Born from the discussion and contributions of the participants of the workshop, the publication “Samizdat” ar...
Markus Feder: Fistful of Silence
Munich based designer, animator and director Markus Feder`s latest music video `Fistful of Silence`for The Glitch Mob; Exploring the tension between Surface and Volume.
One gives birth to the other a...
Lindles: Jeremy Lin, Amazon Kindle, And The Rise Of Insta-Authors
Jeremy Lin has inspired a lot of rabid fans, magazine features, and six-figure book deal offers. But he's also fueled a new breed of lightening-fast ebook authors. Alan Goldsher, author of "Linsanity:...
Noted #31. Fun with ASCII, Malcolm X, media moans, Rock Paper Scissors & Sayer
Here are a few sites, pictures and articles that have caught our attention recently.
ASCII madness from self-described ?non-annoying? interface designer Nick Kwiatek.
Robert Newman?s classic Malcolm X...
Up your FPGA game by learning from this LCD control prototype
[Cesar] recently got a PSP display up and running with his FPGA development board. That’s a nice project, but what we really like is that he set aside a lot of time to show how it’s done ...
Artemas Quibble
Modern leather goods inspired by ancient techniques
A self-taught woodworker, Jason Ross' foray into leather goods happened by chance. While working on a furniture project in a friend's wo...
Salone Milan 2012 Preview: 1% Products by nendo
It's not always so bad to be part of the 1%. Tokyo-based nendo is showing his newest collection of 1% products this April in Milan. This second release follows his 2006 inaugural collection which in...
The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt
There’s an unwritten rule that says that anyone writing anything even vaguely Easter-themed must sprinkle their prose with excruciating egg puns, but here at It’s Nice That we’re bet...
Boring Formless Nonsense
I would appear to have designed the cover for eldritch Priest's new book, Boring Formless Nonsense. It's due out sometime early next year, and looks like a fascinating, brain-scratchy read. Jolly go...
ai weiwei directs ordos 100 documentary
100 architects from 27 countries were selected to participate in the ordos 100, whereby each team was asked to design a 1000-square-meter villa to be built in a new community situated in inner mongoli...
How To Pitch A Startup In Three Minutes
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Re_Type Expo: reinterpretation of the letter C
?Don?t miss out on this fantastic exhibition!? Im Rahmen der Selected C Designkonferenz, die wir bereits angekündigt haben, findet eine kollektive Grafikdesign Ausstellung vom 23....
Flyknit running footwear by Nike
Slideshow: sports brand Nike have created a range of running shoes with knitted uppers made in one piece. (more…)
Intel's human digital billboard
Party is behind this new project for Intel Asia, to promote the brand's Ultrabook laptop. In order to demonstrate the Ultrabook's "thinness and responsiveness", the agency choreographed 60 people wi...
Retro hardware mash-up spouts archaic geekery
This delightful little box is something only a hacker could love. It uses some second-hand hardware to display random sayings attributed to [Buckminster Fuller]. The image above doesn’t do the ...
Crit* Absolut London
Every week, we revisit the previous week's #1 post, with a Crit by Richard Baird.
Absolut is a brand of premium vodka produced in the Skåne region of Southern Sweden and owned by the French com...