Street Seats

Six Point Resin, Dollar Shave Club, Literary Book Madness and more in our look at the web this week

Developed by Bade Stageberg Cox for the Pier 94 Coffee Bar at The Armory Show this weekend, Street Seats is an assortment of 50 chairs collected from the streets of New York. Painted taxi cab yellow, each one is stamped with the date and location of where it was found.

Invisible Mercedes-Benz

Six Point Resin, Dollar Shave Club, Literary Book Madness and more in our look at the web this week

Demonstrating the invisible carbon footprint of Mercedes’ F-CELL hydrogen fuel cell technology, the car maker sought to render one of their autos truly invisible. A side-mounted 5D Mark II recorded video was projected onto a panel of LEDs on the opposing side, giving the car the appearance of transparency.

Mind the Future

Contemporary trends delineated in a comical, design-forward compendium

If you’ve ever wondered about how machines become emotional, if you’re curious about the rise of monocultures or if you were unaware that mounting transparency beckons the end of secrecy, Mind the Future is your guide to the 60 most important long-term societal trends. Essentially a collection of color-coded notecards, the information takes you through scenarios from environmental plights to political conundrums with a bit …