NASA Create the Future Design Contest

Roads that produce electricity from the kinetic energy of cars, DNA-scanning ballot boxes to wipe out voter fraud, superbly energy-efficient houses (pictured right) to stave off the impending energy crisis… these are some of the entries vying for the $20,000 prize offered by NASA in the Create the Future Design Contest While the entry date has come and gone, there are literally hundreds of concepts …

Cody Hudson for GoodShape Design

Multimedia artist Cody Hudson is the first to take part in the GoodShape Design artist series run. The limited edition series consists of silk screened 18×24 prints made on heavy stock acid-free paper and t-shirts printed on the trusted American Apparel tee. GoodShape founder and designer Wayne Pate isn't going for a high-level concept here, he's simply including artists that he finds inspiring personally. Rather …

Yoko Devereaux x DFC: Housewares

I don't smoke, but if I did, I would use one of these new Superflat Ninja Ashtrays (above left). A collaboration with Mexico City's hip houseware brand DFC, Yoko Devereaux expands beyond the tailored knitwear the label's known for to add some well-designed home furnishings. Also included in the collection is the Cabron Bottle Opener (below), a solid brass bottle opener featuring a brass knuckle, …