Julijonas Urbonas’ “Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive (more)

Maria Perales’ collection of houseware that need furniture to hold and support It. Mirrors, vases and chandeliers fit in and on the furniture, becoming a part of its everyday landscape. (via Petra Tikulin). You can find more at Map website

The Quantum Parallelograph is an exploratory project developed by Patrick Stevenson-Keating where he examines the scientific and philosophical ideas surrounding the theory of quantum physics and multiple universes. The device delves into the multiverse, and allows users to glimpse into their “parallel lives” – to (more)

We are generally suspicious of academic work. But every rule has some exceptions, and “Open Pathways” is one of these. “Open Pathways” is the final degree thesis of Siliva Franceschini (followed by Eleonora Fiorani and Beppe Finessi). A great research about the conceptual foundation of (more)

Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that’s only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an (more)

Openwear is the new open source concept and community in course of developing by EDUfashion. In Openwear’s online space, small fashion producers, designers, stylists, students, interns,tailors, photographers, models, crafters, sewing cafes, silk-screen printers, fashion schools and others will all be able to open their own web (more)

Inspired by a childhood spent on the beaches of Cornwall building castles, boats and tunnels in the sand, Max Lamb decided to return to his favourite beach at Caerhays on the south coast of Cornwall to produce a stool using a primitive form of sand-casting. (more)

We are in France, summer 1944… (a great short documentary by Jean Gabriel Periot). Via Fosca Salvi. Link to the movie This stunning and masterful film covers a lot of ground for its short running time. Initially we’re exposed to a blur of archival footage (more)

Quite simple but very effective: Student works. Submitted by them, curated by the Architects’ Journal. http://www.ajnotebook.com/ A democratic concept. People make their own upload, then every day the magazine editors select the “today’s top post” headline. (we love simple and intuitive interfaces…)

“A reversing of a traditional production process; not from wood to paper, but the other way around.” The Newspaper Wood is a collaboration between 2 Netherlands designers, Mieke Meijer of Mieke dingen and Vij5, the designlabel that was started by Arjan van Raashooven & Anieke (more)