A Detailed Look at the High Cost of Insomnia in the United States
In mainstream culture the term “insomnia” is used frequently to describe the inability to fall asleep. If you stay up late at night, bleary-eyed because you can’t go to sleep you typically say you have insomnia. You might call it an “attack of insomnia” or “bout of insomnia,” for an isolated sleepless night, or you [...]
The William Re-Inventing the Stove Top & Cooking
The William is a clever re-invention of the stove top – one that; dynamically uses all available surface space by dividing it into 1,500 heat cells has intelligent and intuitive user experience is flat, flush and easy to clean. 1,500 separately heated, touch sensitive honeycombs Each pot or pan creates a unique signature on the [...]
Cyglo, Designed to Revolutionise Cycling Safety & Awesomeness
A unique, patented invention designed to revolutionise cycling safety. Using high powered LED lights embedded in the tread or wall of the tyres, Cyglo Tyre creates a ring of light that maximises visibility on today’s busy roads. Switched using a motion sensor within the tyre, The LED bulbs can either flash or be permanently on, [...]
An Eclectic Office Made up of Shipping Containers in Geneva
This eclectic interior architecture of an office building in Geneva was recently realised by the internationally acting practice Group8. The office is called Cargo and Group8 worked with the furniture manufacturer Dynamobel to create this insanely cool space. Old and disused cargo containers are stacked one upon the other in order to provide some silent work and [...]
Creative Artificial Constraints | Art Versus Science
This is an idea I’ve toyed with for awhile, but never fully fleshed out. I thought that perhaps putting it out there might generate some interesting feedback to help refine it. Essentially: Creative output with almost no constraints generally falls under the category of Art. Creative output with real-world constraints is more often considered Design. [...]
We are Creating an Infograph on How You Get to Work Each Day.
uncluttered white spaces is interested to learn more about your day. We want to start off with how you get to work. With an increase of people choosing to ride their bike to work of 37% since 2003 in the USA, we wanted to see how our readers get around town. This should take you [...]
An Infograph to Help You Reduce The Odds of Dying In a Plane Crash
Via Information is Beautiful | Visit The Gallery | Home Information is Beautiful source The Guardian Datablog: Most Popular Airliners, Ascend Worldwide, AviationSafety.net, Wikipedia: List Of Accidents On Commercial Airliners, Flowing Data: Safest Seat To Sit In My data: Google Doc
An Easy to Clean, Reusable Water Bottle to Help Save the Planet
Over time, even the best reusable water bottles start to stink, because of how hard they are to clean. That means people stop using them and buy another–which is extraordinarily wasteful–or they stop using refillable bottles altogether. Alex attempts to solve those problems, with a design that screws open in the middle, producing two easy-to-clean [...]
Calibrate Your Thoughts and Move a Few Steps Closer to Being Steve Jobs
What standards are you working to? My father liked his sayings, and one of the most oft spoken was the proverb “If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well” But just what is a job done well? If you show a grandparent your PHD thesis, they’ll say it’s a job done well. But unless [...]
How do I Win Rock, Paper, Scissors Every Time?
More than our fair share of office place disagreements have been settled with Rock Paper Scissors. Might I add, I may be the worst player to have ever played the game however, since reading this, I remain undefeated. We take things quite seriously at UWS. Time to lighten the load… tomorrow, challenge someone to RPS [...]
In the Year 2020, Will we be Wearing Computers on our Wrist?
Is this the future, is Nextep Computer heading our way. Developed to be worn as a bracelet, this computer concept is constructed out of a flexible OLED touchscreen. Earmarked for the year 2020, features like a holographic projector (for screen), pull-out extra keyboard panels and social networking compatibility, make the concept plausible. This seems to [...]
Parasitic Guerrilla Architecture Hijacks the Arche de la Défense
Habitat imagines a world where housing has grown so limited that people revolt and construct their own parasitic homes on any available space they can — like the interior of the famed Arche de la Défense in Paris. Pocket of Active Resistance is a modular complex designed by Parisian architect, Stéphane Malka, who sees existing buildings and infrastructure [...]
From New York to Bondi – Woods Bagot Floats Modular ‘Icebergs’
Contemplating the blue-boarded frozen construction sites on his daily commute from Penn Station to Woods Bagot’s former Garment District office, Woods Bagot New York Principal Jeffrey Holmes considered how to reimagine and revitalise the City’s urban fabric with the promise held by such captivating physical spaces. “Owners and developers are spending money every day to [...]
GEAR FOR LIFE | Things you need for this weekend
WEAR THIS | FINISTERRE European brand Finisterre releases its Anabatic MK II jacket, a lightweight silhouette made for just about any season. The piece comes in four different colorways, each boasting a minimalistic design aesthetic with a water-resistant outer shell. For those interested, the jacket is now available for purchase directly through Finisterre’s online store. [...]
Infograph | A detailed look at the hipster fashion cycle
Flavorwire has provided some insight in relation to fashion cycles and trend in this infograph design by Emily Miethner Providing insight in relation to what leading companies have seem to have known for quite some time: today’s lame trends are tomorrows cutting edge fashion. Like the ocean’s tide, fashions ebb and flow. Whether it’s an indie band, [...]
The Dieline’s Latest top 10 List.
1. One Village Coffee The Dieline have released there latest top 10 list in packaging design. We have grabbed our faveourite 4. To view the entire list and spend some time at the Dieline. Click here now. 8. “O” Olive Oil Concept. 10. Student Spotlight: Bloom. 7. Student Spotlight: Teapot.
Mini continues its support in the battle against HIV/AIDS with Life Ball Series
Mini continues its support in the global battle against with HIV/AIDS with the 2010 Life Ball. Included in this series are contributions from fashion icons Calvin Klein creative director Francisco Costa, Diane von Furstenberg, and Kenneth Cole. Each of the vehicles will be auctioned off at an event in Vienna on July 17th, kicking off the [...]
Noah Abrams Skateistan. An Inspiring Journey through Pictures.
For long time readers of uncluttered white spaces, you will know skateboarding is very close to my heart. Stumbling upon Skateistan by Noah Abrams was an amazing way to start my week this week and the images of Afghanistan’s emerging skateboarding scene is more than inspiring. In a war torn nation where what I can [...]
Infograph | Are we addicted to the internet?
Flotown have released another great infographic on the internet, answering the question. Are we addicted to it? Click on the image to be redirected to the full size.
We think you should visit | Bike By Me [dot] com
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Whilst we can not understand what this site is saying, we certainly know what it is about. This is a very cool look at bespoke bikes in a clean, easy to use website that lets you crrate a bike that works for you. The first image was created by us, the rest are from the [...]
The Entire History of the American Presidency. The Infograph to end all infographs.
Fast Company has written a piece on this Infographic (or immense work of art) on the history of the American President. With 50% of our readers residing in the US, we thought it was more than worthy of reposting. When you get some spare time. Follow this link and update your knowledge on American History. [...]
Infograph | In Deep Water. Oil and how we really can’t afford to spill it
Information is beautiful has yet again created an amazing infographic. This time, on the oil and how we really can not afford to spill it. The oil spill is now on track to be the 3rd worst in history, depositing the equivalent of 22,000 cars worth of oil into the sea every day. The NYTimes [...]
Infograph | Country to Country Entrepreneurship
According to the data, the U.S. is far ahead of any other country in the portion of our GDP that comes from entrepreneurship–11.3%, compared to our next closest competitor, the U.K., which clocks in at 6.3%. This can be interpreted two ways: Either we’ve had a longer history of entrepreneurship–and other countries are perhaps catching [...]
Designers Spin Spider Like Webs From Packing Tape
Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen uses packing tape to create huge, self-supporting cocoons that visitors could climb inside and explore. The installation was first deployed inside a small Croatian gallery, then an abandoned attic during October’s Vienna Design Week. At the last installation inside a former stock exchange building in Vienna, the group used nearly [...]
