Design
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Background: After washing bedsheets, it is difficult to immediately determine the proper orientation for a non-patterned fitted sheet (the bottommost sheet, with the elastic border, the one that looks like this). Frequently, one turns the sheet 90°, only to discover that the sheet was actually correct the first way. Shameful! Now that we have solved…
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The issue: The fine arts constantly struggle for funding, perhaps due to their general inability to compete with modern sources of entertainment. Proposal: In art museums, commercial sponsorship could take the form of (non-destructive) modification to the works of art themselves. For example, the Mona Lisa could be holding an iPhone (an idea which has…
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6 Baffling Apartment Arrangements You Won’t Believe Are Real* (* they are not real)
architecture, hey there’s no space for a dining table, man who designed those layouts anyway, movable walls, reconfigure your apartment, some crazy apartment layouts or something, those bedrooms in the floorplan don’t look like they would actually fit a bed, those bedrooms would totally fit like a crib or twin bed, what is a “den” anyway isn’t that just a living room, whoa what is up with these layouts
The issue: Many modern apartments are extremely well-built structurally (or perhaps even over-built), but have terrible interior layouts. Unfortunately, it is extremely expensive to reconfigure a floorplan, even if no load-bearing walls (or walls concealing wires or plumbing) need to be modified. For maximum cost-efficiency, a person interested in remodeling could potentially just take a…
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The issue: The original shape of a film camera was dictated by the physical constraints of film and lenses. However, digital cameras have maintained the same unwieldy and awkward layout of film cameras, even though there is no longer a reason for a camera to be shaped in such a way. In fact, the asymmetrical…
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