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Designed by Spanish architects SelgasCano, a Los Angeles workspace has popped up in a formerly empty parking lot in Hollywood. The recently opened SecondHome Hollywood boasts a 50,000-square-foot garden of 6,500 trees and plants and 700 tons of soil and vegetation. It is Los Angeles’s densest urban…
I spent 2004–2006 working at Apple as a UI engineer for their online store. Part of my job was to prototype concepts that would add some interactive sparkle to the site. One such project improved the “Personalize your iPod” page, where customers could submit two lines of text to be engraved on the…
Here’s a slightly updated version of a card game I made in 2014. It was originally targeted at the iPad, but for the purposes of this post I’ve altered it to work on any size screen. Essentially it’s a card matching game. Find two matching cards that have an edge or corner touching each other,…
Drawing has always been something I’ve approached with a great deal of unearned confidence. Each time I sit down to sketch I feel sure I’ll be able to capture the subject with a few strokes of a pen, but the end results never seem that different from the drawings I made as a child. That was again…
A couple of years ago I made a small tipi for my nieces and nephews to play with. Nothing human sized, but big enough for them to get some dolls and cars inside. I thought I’d outline how I put it together. The first thing I did was make the poles. I found a stick of walnut in my parts bin and ran…
In late 2017 I started learning how to make CGI hair in Blender. I’d watched some videos from Pixar showing how their fur and hair technology had improved over the years, and it seemed like a fun area to explore myself. The hair I knew best belonged to Sam, and I wondered if I could reproduce his…
I have quite a lot of scrap wood in my workshop. I usually get it from cabinet shops that are having a clear out, or from sidewalks where people have dumped it. It mostly just sits in the corner taking up space, but occasionally I find a use for it. In 2015 I tried making some dishes out of the…
There’s a traffic jam on Miami Beach thanks to Leandro Erlich. Erlich’s installation, titled “Order of Importance,” is an effort to put conversations surrounding climate change front and center. Commissioned by the city of Miami Beach and curated by Ximena Caminos and Brandi Reddick, the…
Each and every day, we're lucky to discover dozens of interesting and inspiring projects from around the world. From global identities and campaigns to side projects and independently published books, The Edit is home to five of them; every two weeks. Birmingham-based studio Two of Us worked with…
London-based design agency Otherway created the identity for Cabinet, an online pharmacy with a mission to disrupt the $24 billion over-the-counter medicine market in the US. Cabinet are a new kind of pharmacy – they are completely transparent about everything they do and how their products are…
Lookbooks is an online bookstore that sells ‘old and kinda fun books’. Their identity, by London-based Studio Lowrie, is initially delivered on a series of bookmarks, custom rolls of tape and tote bags, with a website to follow soon. The playful identity doesn’t take itself too seriously. A series…
London-based design consultancy Two Times Elliott created the identity for The Unstated, an online womenswear retailer that champions emerging brands. By carrying only ten brands in limited qualities at any one time, their shopping experience comes with a personal and unconventional touch. Two…
In celebration of the Porto City Theatre’s 87th anniversary, Rimini Protokoll presented 100% Porto, a performance that captured the diversity of the city. 100 inhabitants were placed on stage and divided them into categories such as age, gender, nationality and area of residence. Each one of them…
Contemporary artist Tim Bengel has installed a living cemetery on the border of the Berlin Wall during the city’s Art Week. The exhibition, Graves of our Generations, revolves around the question ‘Why did(n’t) I live?’, and consists of 100 engraved marble gravestones, 10000 flowers and 5 tons of…
Process Visual Journeys in Graphic Design by Counter-Print Process Visual Journeys in Graphic Design showcases the ideas and sketches behind the work of Swedish studio BankerWessel. The book contains nearly 1500 individual sketches and annotations showing the thought behind their work for clients…
Caracol is a bar in São Paulo, Brazil that plays host to a different musical guest each and every day. Their identity, designed by local studio Sometimes Always, reduces the shape of a snail (the Portuguese to English translation of Caracol is ‘snail’) to its simplest form, a circle. The sheer…
De Utrechtse Boekenbar is a small bookshop in Utrecht, The Netherlands, specialising in art books and independent magazines. The shop also hosts exhibitions, spoken word nights and book presentations, mostly featuring young local artists. The identity of the shop was designed by Dutch designer Daan…
Tora is a Japanese sushi restaurant in Toronto, Canada, based on the concept of ‘Japanese tradition meets technology’. The identity, stationery, packaging, website, signage and photography is created by Glasfurd & Walker. The identity is built around a high contrast custom typeface inspired by…
Badalona Comunicació is a media company that outputs to the written press, radio and television. They are the main source of information for the local population of the Catalonian city of Badalona. They commissioned Barcelona based studio Forma to redesign their visual identity, communication…
Stelplaats is a temporary art centre located in an unused public bus parking lot in Leuven, Belgium. The identity, created by Belgian designer Corbin Mahieu, is directly inspired by the lines found on the floor of the parking lot.
Henua Organics is a luxury cosmetics brand that creates skincare products made from organic ingredients, rooted in the essence of Nordic simplicity. Their identity and packaging was created by Werklig – a brand design agency based in Helsinki, Finland. ‘Henua’ is a Finnish word, translating to mean…
Ya-sin Chahimi is an artist driven lifestyle brand specialising in high-end men’s grooming products. Their first creation is a citrus, jasmine and cedarwood scented beard oil. The packaging and visual identity was designed by Daniel Carlsten.
The British Academy is the UK’s leading authority on the humanities and social sciences. Their fellowship of over 1000 leading experts inspire, support and promote the most outstanding research and researchers. Manchester based agency Only helped the Academy to define a new visual and strategic…
Hey is a Barcelona based studio known for seamlessly combining graphic design and illustration. Counter-Print have published a new book which offers insight into the studio’s creative process through their work for clients such as Monocle, PayPal, Nokia and Uniqlo.