CHI'S

9400 Bike Parking Tower in Tokyo

Via Laughing Squid

The Reverse Graffiti Project

From the Reverse Graffiti Project via Laughing Squid

iShoes' turbo shoes

13.5 mph, recharges in 2 hours, 600 USD...
Check out the video below.
Radical...

Benetton's Fabrica: A Creative Utopia

Via Pingmag

Fabrica is Benetton's creative research centre and most well-known for its magazine COLORS.
Pingmag interviews Fabrica's General Manager Alfio Pozzoni at the opening of its ''Les Yeux Ouvert'' exhibition at the Shiodome Italia in Tokyo.

Fabrica! Do we need to say more? Since 1994, the legendary Italian research centre has invited forty bright young artists from all over to its vast villa in Treviso (that just got a new makeover from acclaimed architect Tadao Ando.) Established by Benetton group founder Luciano Benetton and photographer and its then art director Oliviero Toscani, the institution serves as breeding ground for artists who devote themselves entirely to creative studies for one year. Now, after making a stopover in Milan and Shanghai, you can see Fabrica’s Les Yeux Ouvert (“Eyes Open to the World and the Future”) exhibition at Shiodome Italia in Tokyo, organised by the Pompidou Centre. It was a perfect opportunity for PingMag to grab Fabrica General Manager Alfio Pozzoni for a chat.

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Living Patterns

Via Swissmiss

TIME: Nylonkong and a Tale of Three Cities

Via Time Magazine

New York, London & Hong Kong

Connected by long-haul jets and fiber-optic cable, and spaced neatly around the globe, the three cities have (by accident — nobody planned this) created a financial network that has been able to lubricate the global economy, and, critically, ease the entry into the modern world of China, the giant child of our century. Understand this network of cities — Nylonkong, we call it — and you understand our time.

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Inventions & Visions of the Urban Future

Via Gridskipper

[The Past Is Tomorrow]
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The Human Flow

Human Flows via WeMakeMoneyNotArt

''Human Flow's aim is to ''visually and interactively map global migrations in a bid to understand its causes...''

Ode to New York

SwissMiss via S-nonblog

Love New York...