One Man is Illustrating Every NYC Subway Station

For the past 38 years, New Jersey native Philip Ashforth Coppola has spent his evenings, weekends and vacation days underground in New York City’s subway system. There, he studies and illustrates the city’s historical subway architecture, mosaics and signage as a means of preserving old New York. So far, with just a black pen, he’s drawn out four volumes worth of subway stations and won’t …

Leading Design Studios Envision Future Cannabis Products

With cannabis culture quickly maturing, fledgling marijuana brands have needed to adapt their identities to appeal to the masses, not just the dorm room stoners. Peeking into the possible future of cannabis businesses, Surface Magazine recently reached out to 12 leading design studios with one simple brief: create a fictionalized aspirational marijuana brand. And the results—which include a bag of potato chips filled with pot …

Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things

When thinking of architecture most of us don’t think of small-scale creations, but there’s plenty of design prowess behind these structures. From pet houses to pods to tree houses and sheds, cabins and inflatable structures—there’s a little genius behind all these little buildings. “Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things” celebrates a wide range of designs, and shows good things certainly do come in small packages.