Furniture and product designers are usually a protective bunch, fawning over objects with the same care that proud parents lavish on their newborns. But a handful are now encouraging us to break their creations. In fact, these products aren’t complete until you give them a personal touch by smashing, cracking, hammering, tearing, or snapping them […]
A day in the life of New York City, in miniature. vía The Sandpit on Vimeo.
What if everyone on Twitter read the same book at the same time and we formed one massive, international book club? Usually such programs are organized by big-city libraries. Seattle started the trend for collective reading in 1998 when zillions of Seattlites all read Russell Banks’ book, Sweet Hereafter. Chicago followed suit with To Kill […]