The Shipyard Returns: ”
By Dale Dougherty
Last May, I wrote about the City of Berkeley closing down The Shipyard. A communal workspace for artists and alternative techies, The Shipyard was organized by Jim Mason; it was built as stacks of shipping containers. After the shutdown notice came, members of The Shipyard dispersed to […]

They were flexible in the fifties too: “

Last year we wrote a post on flexible identity design that seemed to strike a chord in the design world. One of our earliest examples was this marvellous project in the seventies for Boston’s WGBH TV.

We’ve received many emails since with other nominations to be included […]

Muscle Suit for Carpenters Unveiled In Japan: “Geniuses at Nagayo University in Japan unveiled a prototype ROBOTIC MUSCLE SUIT designed to help carpenters fit ceiling boards in place. This particular carpentry task is unnatural to the human body and takes a lot of brute force. It requires that the board be pressed against the ceiling […]