With the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing rapidly approaching, the Chinese government has recruited several bloggers and linguists to help ensure that the English portions of the city’s signs are properly translated and free of error.
Recently, the F-word has been popping up on many signs leaving government officials bewildered and expats amused. According to LAEM, [...]

Will energy harvested from the movement of pedestrians in high foot-traffic locales be the next big trend in renewable energy? Karl Sundholm, of the Swedish state-held property administration company Jernhuset, seems to think so.
He plans on using the body heat generated from the approximate 250,000 people that pass through Stockholm Central Station (the largest train [...]

The footwear obsessed folks over at Sneaker Freaker compiled Best of The Best 2007, a comprehensive analysis of the years coolest kicks. Although Adidas, Puma, New Balance and smaller more boutique brands like Visvim and Clae have had a solid year, Nike remains the most dominant player in the game.
Click here to read what some [...]

In The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City, author Elizabeth Currid articulates how the New York economy (one of the largest regional economies in the world) is propelled by the artists, writers, fashion designers and musicians that live there, equally as much as those in the white-collar/financial sectors. Since culture [...]

UK-based Privacy International, in conjunction with the Electronic Privacy Information Center recently published a world map that rates various nations according to their civil liberties track records.
Unsurprisingly, military heavyweights like the US, UK, Russia and China received the poorest possible ratings for their “endemic surveillance” and lack of privacy safeguards. In contrast, nations like Canada, [...]

A fancy watch, luxury car, second home, designer clothes and corner office are no longer enough for today’s super rich. With advanced technology becoming cheaper to produce and distribute by the year, it’s more difficult than ever for the status-conscious consumer to stand out in a crowd. A niche market of super-luxury goods is emerging [...]

Last night I met with Kris Krüg at The Irish Heather Pub, where, over a few beers and burgers dressed with Guinness cheese, I picked his brain. Kris is a well-known Vancouver-based fashion photographer, author and technologist. In 2004 he co-founded Bryght, a company that specializes in online community building and uses Drupal, a [...]

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Wonderwall is a Japanese design firm that was founded by Masamichi Katayama back in 2000. Specializing in cutting edge retail and commercial spaces, and most known for designing A Bathing Ape’s “BUSY WORK SHOPs” in Japan, London, New York, and Hong Kong, Wonderwall is changing the way some of the world’s most progressive [...]

Good design has never been more critical to the image of businesses, products and services than it is today. As a result, creative jobs are in demand and companies are trying to learn how to effectively implement and manage the overall design process to ensure corporate success.
If you are unsure of how design could fit [...]