It has been projected, that by 2050 half of the world's population will live in the city - Architect Antonio Scarponi’s urban, rooftop farm endeavors to address how we might sustainably live and eat within our future urban environments.
The Globe (Hedron) is a greenhouse made from renewable and natural materials, including bamboo, and uses the process of aquaponics to grow
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An Italian, online food service, Milk, Please! enables users to crowdsource help with small or last-minute grocery requirements.
The process is simple - users navigate through to the site where they make a request for simple grocery goods, such as bread, eggs or cheese. A shopper nearby can then choose to accept this request, and, if they wish, personally deliver the
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In this technology abundant age, it is relatively easy for most of us to communicate with our friends and loved ones, wherever they might be in the world. But our digital devices are not quite able to match the sense of real-time interaction, and can often feel like impersonal tools for communicating. Interactive designer Marco Triverio has created an
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Designer Cory Forsyth and former Creative Director at Google Creative Lab Ji Lee have come up with a ‘calmer’ way to experience the Internet.
As the saying goes, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ - Wordless Web is a browser plug-in that removes all copy from a web page leaving only images and a white background space – viewers are
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The Serpentine Gallery has revealed exciting renderings of the 12th annual pavilion to be completed by Swiss practice Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, which will coincide with the 2012 Olympics this summer.
Working together for the first time since the RIBA Lubetkin Prize winning Beijing National Stadium, which was built for the 2008 Olympics, the trio will
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The ubiquity of photosharing apps such as Instagram and sites like Flickr have, in recent years, enabled even the most the novice photographer to share beautiful photos with the world in an instant - so it comes as little surprise to hear that this photography phenomenon will be honored throughout May as the W Hotel in New York hosts #WDESIGN:
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20th Century Fox has released a viral campaign across multiple media platforms ahead of director Ridley Scott’s first foray into science fiction for 30 years.
In an attempt to draw audiences into the world of Prometheus, Fox has teased fans with a website for Weyland Industries - the corporate company that funds the Prometheus space mission in the film - which
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The Tate Britain has announced the shortlisted entrants for Britain’s most anticipated art award, the Turner Prize.
Spartacus Chetwynd
Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price, will compete for the £250,000 prize, which will be presented on December 3rd – they will also present their work in an exhibition at the Tate Britain in October. Works this year span the
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London-based design studio Barber Osgerby have scooped the Design of the Year award this year for their Olympic Torch.
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby beat off a myriad off creative hopefuls for the prestigious prize, including NEWGEN designer Mary Katrantzou, Olympic Velodrome designers Hopkins Architects, Issey Miyake for his 132.5 collection and Zaha Hadid for her Guangzhou Opera House. Barber Osgerby's
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Photographer Matt Richardson has created a prototype camera that it prints out text descriptions of what it has captured instead of images.
The Descriptive Camera works much like a regular camera - users point the small device at a scene and press a button to take a picture. In a twist, this picture is then sent to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing
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