Cool Hunting Video Presents: ICON Bronco

Our latest video explores the workshop where creative minds gives classic trucks new life

For our latest video, the third to premiere at the 99% Conference last week, we drove through the desolate corridor of I-5 to the outskirts of Los Angeles to visit ICON, California’s premiere builder of custom trucks. Newest in the line-up, the ICON Bronco takes the body of a classic 1970s Ford Bronco and rebuilds it from the ground up. All ICON’s trucks maintain the …

Data.Anatomy [Civic]

A data-driven display from Ryoji Ikeda explores the interior of an automobile

Derived from the data set of the latest Honda Civic model, the new sonic and visual installation by the Paris-based Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, “data.anatomy [civic]” was unveiled last week at the stunning post-industrial venue Kraftwerk Berlin. Ikeda considers mathematicians to be artists, and specializes in work based on science and numbers—in this case he manipulates DNA data and astronomy to compose electronic sounds and …

UX vs. UI in Cereal

Remembering Dick Clark, Vernacular Typography, Pulitzer Prize Photos and more in our weekly web roundup

Graphic designer and illustrator Ed Lea offers up some nourishment for UED geeks out there, pitting the differences between UX and UI in a photo infographic built with cereal. While the rundown is certainly clever, the philosophical analysis found in the comments section may be just as entertaining.