Studio Aisslinger's LED-TV designprojects for Changhong. The TV is turned on by inserting a finger in a circular opening within the stand where a sensor registers the movement and activates the screen.
Improv everywhere's Mp3 Experiment Eight. Over 3,500 people downloaded an MP3 file and pressed play simultaneously at sunset in two starting points by the Hudson River. Amazing video and photos!
Chris Jordan's Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture. This wave depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, the estimated quantity entering the world's oceans every hour.
A roundup of some of our favorite design inspiration of the week here at NOTCOT.org including a good round of photobombing, hideaway capsules, sloth x-rays and pneumatic tubes.
The Veliero bookshelf by Franco Albini made from two brass-tipped masts of tapering wood that rest together on one point and shelves floating under hangers of thin steel rods.
This year's Pictoplasma NYC festival will take place at Parsons the New School for Design on November 4th and 5th. This year's speaker lineup includes Geneviève Gauckler.
DGI-byen invited 7 artists and designers to redecorate their conference meeting rooms, in order to make meetings here a different and inspiring experience.
'Sonumbra de Vincy' by loop.pH captures the type of designs to be featured at London's origin contemporary craft fair in September as part of a new platform for lighting installations called Lux Craft.
GE and MIT's SENSEable City Lab compile and visualize the data from 7.2 million anonymized electronic medical records to create this Health InfoScape. By Dominik Dahlem, Eric Baczuk and Xiaoji Chen.