The Bookman Light

Cycle safely with tiny removable lights from a new Stockholm design studio

Copenhagen may have nearly a half million commuters cycle through each day, but there are many other pockets of Scandinavia where bicycles are popular. In Stockholm, riding without a bell or horn is subject to fines—tickets for riding without brakes are even higher and when winter hits, police target cyclists riding without lights. Fortunately, where there are bikes, there are those who love them and …

Alternative Clocks

Seven unconventional clocks that tell more than time

Our pace and focus on the short-term these days seems to have surpassed the steady tick-tock of time passing. Groups like The Long Now Foundation aim to counteract this phenomenon by encouraging long-term thinking. To foster this world view—time as a series of years, one lined up after another and 10,000 more after that till infinity—computer scientist Danny Hillis proposed a monumental timepiece that “ticks …

Nonlinear Studio

Intelligent design questioning the relationship between form and function (slightly)

A straight line between points A and B might be the fastest way to get there, but for Nonlinear Studio‘s founding designer Evan Clabots fixation on a predetermined end result isn’t necessarily best. “The design process quickly turns into decisions, concessions and justifications to get a round peg into the square hole that was determined from the onset,” he says. Instead Clabots’ design philosophy focuses …