The emerging concept of “active design” aims to push people in the right direction by getting architects, designers, and urban planners thinking about the major role their work plays in getting people to lead healthier lives. learn more in fastcoexist…
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The Internet of Things might change the way you live your life within your house, but we’re not quite at the point where it’s having a huge effect on the way your house is designed watch the video in bigthink…
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In the world of art, architecture, and design, the golden ratio has earned a tremendous reputation. Greats like Le Corbusier and Salvador Dalí have used the number in their work. The Parthenon, the Pyramids at Giza, the paintings of Michelangelo, the…
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When the city of Alexandria, Minnesota, asked community members what they wanted in their new high school to be like, they replied, “like the Google campus learn more in fastcodesign How To Design The Googleplex Of Schools By John Brownlee…
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Beijing’s new airport is going to be a monster. At 7.5 million square feet, it covers about the same amount of space as 130 football fields put together—all within one terminal building. learn more in fastcodesign How To Design The…
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Getting an infection during surgery is a serious problem.They also double the hospital’s cost of treatment. To prevent dangerous infections, the global architecture firm NBBJ (along with American Shared Hospital Services) designed a new operating room concept that reduces the…
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The market of wearable technology is set to be worth an estimated $60 billion. Wearable technology is redefining our relationship with the world around us. With each developing devices, the technology is reinventing the way we connect with each other,…
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Neuroscientist Bevil Conway thinks about color for a living. An artist since youth, Conway now spends much of his time studying vision and perception at Wellesley College and Harvard Medical School. His science remains strongly linked to art–in 2004 he…
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A new US-based garment online retailer – a startup from the proverbial garage, is vying to capture a piece of your wardrobe, but in a different way! vPersonalize.com wants consumers to design their own apparel, online, on a 3D model…
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Responsive design–layouts that repaginate to fit different screen sizes and devices–reigned supreme in 2013. That trend will likely continue as business leaders look for ways to keep customers coming back to their websites. But while it’s a useful concept to…