Snapchat boasts 100 million daily users—yet is wildly misunderstood even by key media partners. Here’s what everyone is missing.
“We the millennials, bro!”
The Countries Where People Have The Best Well-Being In The World
Money isn’t everything. Nations that have better work-life balance, health care, and education offer the best quality of life.
Our quality of life isn’t just about how much money we earn but also how much leisure time we have, the environment we live in, our access to health care and education, and a slew of other factors. In assessing where people are living best, we need to account for more than wages and gross domestic product, though these are obviously important.
Out Of Office With The Guy Who Designed Your SoulCycle Bike
All things analog: Why designer and heir to a New York furniture empire Eric Villency still finds inspiration in the old days.
Eric Villency—the grandson of furniture magnate Maurice Villency and son of the mixed-media artist Rowann Villency—turned the furniture empire his grandfather built in the depression era into a full-service design firm specializing in everything from interiors to product design. And while he’s designed things like SoulCycle’s signature custom bike and a dorm room concept intended to protect against technology theft, Villency continues to be inspired by relics of handmade mid-century design.
The Value of Randomness in Art and Design
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Ask a designer or artist if any aspect of their process is random. The answer will likely reveal a complex relationship between human cognition, digital media, authorship, and even conceptions of reality and the divine. For those of us who work in computational media to make art, the question can be even more focused: When and why do you use a “random()” function when you write code?
The Newest Lexus Is An Origami-Inspired Car Made From Cardboard
Be careful, it isn’t exactly street legal.
Driving down the street, a new paper car—hand-glued from 1,700 pieces of cardboard—looks more like a piece of animation than a real-life object.
Hem’s Addictive, Custom Shelving Tool Teases Responsive Furniture To Come
Easily configurable, custom furniture: It’s the anti-Ikea, and the latest trend in interior design.
Responsive design has already taken over the web, with apps and sites that can automatically stretch and shrink to fit on tablets or televisions with equal comfort.
Watch Architecture And Typography Smash Together Like Peanut Butter And Jelly
Gorgeous concepts by Universal Everything imagine a future in which our words and buildings are one.
Ideo looks like a roller coaster designed by M.C. Escher. AKQA is a series of fans gone sentient. These are some of the strange, part-typographical, part-architectural brand interpretations designed by Universal Everything for the OFFF Design Festival.
Artist Max Siedentopf Soups Up Boring Cars With Cardboard
“Slapdash Supercars” is a lo-fi, guerilla version of that MTV show that shall not be named.
The era of mass customization has afforded us with the ability to make products our own, but artist Max Siedentopf noticed that we’ve lost our creative edge when it comes to personalizing cars. So he took things into his own hands and started a guerilla art project that involved kitting out nondescript cars with cardboard spoilers, headlights, body kits, and more.
Why Snapchat Axed Yahoo From Discover
A new Fast Company feature reveals why Snapchat booted Yahoo from Discover—and replaced it with BuzzFeed.
When Snapchat launched Discover, a selection of editorial videos from publishers updated daily, it debuted the feature with a spectrum of media brands. Included in the inaugural group of 12 Discover channels were content creators like Comedy Central, Vice, Cosmopolitan—and Yahoo, whose channel was headlined by none other than Yahoo News anchor Katie Couric.
Your Tweets Tell Data Miners How Much Money You Have
You’d be surprised which things in your timeline are tipping them off: your anger level and linking habits.
Twitter is largely a public forum, and most users know this. If you tweet about something you want to keep private, you’ve failed. But what many people don’t realize is that simply using Twitter at all can reveal a lot more than intended.
