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 …

Artist R Luke DuBois’ Eye-Opening Data Portraits

At this year’s TED conference, artist R Luke DuBois shared with the audience a few of his latest works. While he doesn’t paint, draw or take photos, DuBois can weave together incredibly complex portraits of his subjects through unconventional applications of programming and code. In one project, he downloads millions of dating profiles to map out the way people speak about themselves across the country. …

Studio Dror’s Montreal Dome Concept

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Montreal’s Expo 67, New York-based design studio Dror has proposed adding a new structure to complement the city’s now-iconic Biosphere. The project, simply called the Montreal Dome, would mimic Buckminster Fuller’s original Biosphere in both shape and size while adding a mesh-like layer atop the dome, allowing vegetation to grow and shield it from the outside. The concept cultural …