The Future Googleplex Unveiled

Google’s most innovative product yet just might be their own headquarters. They’ve called upon architecture aces Bjarke Ingels of BIG and Thomas Heatherwick of Heatherwick Studios to design the next generation of their Googelplex in Mountain View, California. Combining open community spaces with seamless, nature-focused design, the collaboration has led to modular workspaces blanketed by a translucent glass canopy that transforms the new “buildings” into …

Fiercely Curious + Made Popup Show

The Brooklyn-based artist and designer collective celebrates its one year anniversary by blurring the lines between physical and digital gallery space

When Erin Przekop and Tom Critchlow were first conceiving the idea that would become their online art boutique Fiercely Curious, they didn’t realize they were going to be starting a creative family. “We were hiking in the Andes and Erin was trying to get out of fashion, so we were trying to figure out how to combine our talents to create something new,” says Critchlow, …

IKEA’s Wireless Charging

With so many of our devices requiring daily charging, open outlets are becoming as rare as Polaroid film. Ikea is setting out to liberate us from our outlet obsession—while reducing powercord clutter—by embedding inductive charging into everyday furniture. The Swedish home design behemoth will soon offer lamps, tables and desks that have a small platform where users can wirelessly charge any of their devices that …