Man Made DIY

Armed with Google maps and the finely tuned research skills of a team of geography professors and graduate students, the curious minds at FloatingSheep set out to answer the simple question, "where can I get a drink."      … read more

Many a song has been written about "the road." From bluesmaster Robert Johnson's Faustian deal with the devil at the crossroads to a good twenty-five percent of the Bob Dylan and Paul Simon songs in the sixties, many tunes memorialize specific places, or the journey along them.

English design firm Dorothy collected 390 song titles and organized them into a singular, incredible road map.   … read more

Tim De Chant explores the question, "if the world's [seven] billion people lived in one city, how large would… read more

Cast iron cookware? Awesome. Topography? The best. Family companies practicing traditional artisnal crafts and making amazing things? That you can actually buy? Can't beat that.

FeLion Studios has created the "Made in America" series of… read more

This is hands-down the coolest piece of street art I've seen in a long time (do I even need to stay street art? How about just art instead?). The piece, titled Blinking City, is more than just a aesthetically pleasing spray paint stencil. It's actually a collage of several neighborhoods in Bejing and is a commentary on the "inadequacy of traditional maps for city environments characterized by fast pace transformation and urban growth"   … read more