World’s Strangest

Remember Travis Pitts and his awesome design, “We’ve Got Some Work To Do, Now?” Well, he’s still coming up with great ideas, mashing up different threads of pop culture in clever ways. To paraphrase Travis, I’m frankly surprised no one’s thought of this yet. Bigger image at the Flickr link. Link (via Super Punch)

In 1894, Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin—a French aristocrat and intellectual who had previously attempted to incorporate more physical education into the curriculum of the country’s schools—convened a congress in Paris with the goal of reviving the ancient Olympic Games (an idea Coubertin first introduced at a USFSA meeting in 1889). The congress agreed on [...]

“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares,” says Saul Bass, creator of many beautiful movie posters, logos, and other designs — see above for a few iconic examples. Bass made a lasting mark on American graphic design with his bold designs and text treatments. You see his influence today in images that [...]

Archaeologists Do It in the Dirt, design by Chris Murphy – $14.95 Chemists Do It Periodically on a Table Cosmologists Do It in the first 3 Minutes Geologists: Experts in the Art of Subduction Statisticians Do All the Standard Deviations A new addition to our growing line of cheeky Scientists Do It T-Shirts, here’s one for all you [...]

The New Jersey design firm Lovegrove & Repucci has created this graffiti-covered dinnerware set in the tradition of the Netherland’s Delft-style porcelain. It’s called “New York Delft” and in the links, you can can find an Antiques Roadshow spoof featuring the collection. Link via Make | YouTube Video | Image: Davies & Starr

A simple, but unusual and elegant design: a bridge in the city of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands uses two arms to swing a section of road in and out of place. It’s called the “Slauerhoffbrug” and was built in 2000. Image Gallery and Aerial View via The Presurfer | Photo: Frozenly

The design blog Dornob has a post describing flooring made from recycled leather belts, including rugs and floor tiles. They’re pricey, at about $70 per square foot. So Dornob suggests that you could make your own: If you are looking for a cheaper alternative approach, however, local vintage clothing stores may sell a belt for a [...]

Design Boom has a huge gallery of the most beautiful works of subway station and tunnel architecture across the world. Pictured above is the Solna Centrum metro station in Stockholm, which opened in 1975. Shades of red dominate the artwork of the station, which depicts the social concerns of 1970s Sweden. Link via Fast Company | [...]

The room pictured above, by designer Jeffrey Miller, was inspired by the work of Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. Erin Williamson of Design Crisis has assembled a gallery of similar interiors. Link via Fast Company | Photo: Design Crisis

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have revealed a radical new design of electrical generator that is claiming to have solved o…