If you’ve ever fantasized about living in a real-life Lego home, your dream could finally come true.
French architecture firm Multipod Studio recently unveiled a prototype for the PopUp House, a customizable home made from stackable blocks. It can be designed, ordered, and built in about a month.
Check out the design for the first homes, located in the pine valleys of Southern France.
And you thought building Ikea furniture was daunting.
Did you know that Finland has a Brand Book? I haven’t made it through this 365-page monster yet, but once you get past the cringe-worthy hyperbole of the first few pages, it actually turns pretty interesting. And insanely granular: there’s even a mission for grandparents.
http://www.demoshelsinki.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/TS_Report_EN.pdf
This is a pretty cool thought project, even though it kind of breaks the first of the five basic principles of flag design. That’s an awfully talented child who can draw this flag from memory.
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Some tropes are so ingrained in Medieval-inspired fantasy stories that it’s tempting to think that they represent real aspects of Medieval life. But often these stories are just reinforcing myths and misconceptions about life in the Middle Ages.
One thing that it’s important to remember when talking about the Medieval period is that it spans a long time — from the 5th century CE to the 15th century CE — and involves a great number of European countries. You’ll notice that a great deal of the debunkery here involves 14th century England, thanks to works like The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer and the works of Joseph Gies and Frances Gies (although another source, Misconceptions About the Middle Ages, covers a bit more ground). But the point here is that the Middle Ages were, in fact, far richer than the Medieval-like settings of many swords and sorcery stories would lead you to believe.
Via io9: 10 Worst Misconceptions About Medieval Life You'd Get From Fantasy Books.
This would be fun.
German website CURVED/labs worked up this concept design for an anniversary edition of the original Macintosh, echoing that machine’s shape while flaunting the thinness possible with 2015 technology.
link: core77.com