Secret Shadow Signs - Hotel Sign Seen Only At Night
The Gallery Hotel Art in Florence has a sign that you won't notice in the daytime for it is just a series of metal wire attached to the side of the building. But come night time, a spotlight above lights up and those bent wires cast shadows which spell out the hotel name.
It's a unique lighting choice and cleverly done. On one hand, it saves a great…
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You couldn't get more eco friendly than a sailboat, but there are times when the wind fails and people have to resort to noisy and polluting outboard motors. Now a Turkish design team, Gürsu and Dogan,…
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Nice is debuting its new plug-in electric city car, the MyCar, at the British Motor Show in London on July 23. The two-seater, eco-fun car with zero emissions be available in the U.K. this fall, with prices…
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Despite being threatened by pirates and having almost been sunk by submerged logs, the Earthrace biodiesel trimaran (powered by recycled human fat) made the fastest trip around the world. This knocks 14…
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Environmental activists in Iran are upset because some of the most beautiful wetlands in the northern part of Iran are being destroyed. Among those seeking heightened conservation for the wetland ecosystems,…
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The Free Spirit is a cross between a bike and a car. What Leonid Lucenko has really designed, of course, is a tricycle.
Sometimes designers let creativity get in the way. For example, the Free Spirit…
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Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" showed what major cities such as San Francisco and New York would look like when the sea encroached due to global warming. The prepared images were shown from the perspective…
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Constantinos Economides believes he can help save old chairs including favourite ones by repurposing them into rockers. He has designed curved wooden platforms where the chairs can be strapped on. There…
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Mazda has unveiled the first official images of the new Mazda Kazamai concept. Mazda must be super excited about the design, it seems they couldn't wait until the car's official debut on August 26 at the…
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Flat-pack, pop-up and prefab are all terms that are becoming increasingly popular int he world of design and living. Prefabricated products go way beyond the shelves of Ikea; in fact, prefab homes -- yes,…
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What do you do if the only access to your local oceanfront property is lined with jagged stones and pointy coral? You do what humans do best - make it the way you want it.
Architect, Vicente Guallart,…
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Packaging is a necessary evil. We need it to preserve the items and keep them organized. However, once we open up our packages, and use the actual product, the packaging material is bound for the garbage…
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Peace of Cake is a cake tray with a message, "Make cake, not war."
Fred says, "Everybody knows if we made more cake and less war the world would be a happier place."
However, we all know that it takes…
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Electric cars are not the future: zero-emission vehicles are the now! There are a variety of eco-friendly, battery-powered cars on the market today and thousands more in design and concept stages.
In…
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