PRI: Studio 360 - Design for the Real World
Design for the Real World is an inside look at the hidden genius of everyday things - lipstick, sheetrock, tea bags, ballparks - from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, public radio's weekly guide to what's happening in the culture. Produced by Public Radio International and ...
Design for the Real World is an inside look at the hidden genius of everyday things - lipstick, sheetrock, tea bags, ballparks - from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, public radio's weekly guide to what's happening in the culture. Produced by Public Radio International and WNYC.
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In 1960, zip tops made opening aluminum cans more convenient ...
In 1960, zip tops made opening aluminum cans more convenient and dangerous. Those razor-sharp metal tags you ripped off and threw away were a hazard for the thirsty. That all changed in 1972, when a young engineer named Daniel Cudzik was
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Apple's Newest Update
Last week, Apple's Steve Jobs made a design presentation ...
Last week, Apple's Steve Jobs made a design presentation not to masses of swooning tech journalists, but to the Cupertino, California city council. What Jobs unveiled this time was Apple's future corporate headquarters. The design, by
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Sandcastles
Sand sculptor Kirk Rademaker makes architecture out of sand -- ...
Sand sculptor Kirk Rademaker makes architecture out of sand -- fantastical structures as high as ten feet, with arches and balconies, and sloping curves that stretch all over the beach. He showed off his skills at Ocean Beach in San Francisco.
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Monopoly Redesigned
Last month, Studio 360 announced plans to redesign the board ...
Last month, Studio 360 announced plans to redesign the board game Monopoly. Capitalism and real estate have changed a lot since Monopoly was first sold by Parker Brothers in the 1930s, and we decided the game was due for a major overhaul. We
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Monopoly Redesign: Eliot Spitzer Edition
Since the board game Monopoly first came out in the ...
Since the board game Monopoly first came out in the 1930s, capitalism and tycooning have changed a lot. Someone who knows that better than most is former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who now hosts a public affairs program on CNN. Spitzer told Kurt
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William McDonough: Godfather of Green
William McDonough is a grand old man in the young ...
William McDonough is a grand old man in the young field of green architecture. In the 1970s, he built the first "green roof" in America a corporate headquarters with a meadow on top and is now working on a sustainable
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A More Perfect Union
Artist-programmer R. Luke DuBois has his own map of the ...
Artist-programmer R. Luke DuBois has his own map of the U.S., and it's not colored with red states and blue. DuBois doesn't need the polls; he gathered his data from 19 million dating profiles. Politics, schmolitics he wants to know
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Periodic Tables
This week in Studio 360's Design for the Real World: ...
This week in Studio 360's Design for the Real World: Sam Kean explains how the 19th century Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev invented the the Periodic Table and why the table's orderly design endures today. Kean is the author of "The
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Bollywood Romance
For years, Bollywood's sappy, over-the-top, romantic musicals drew audiences with ...
For years, Bollywood's sappy, over-the-top, romantic musicals drew audiences with colorful hand-painted murals on the old movie theaters. But digital printing presses have put many of the painters who created these murals out of work. In Delhi,
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Biomimicry
Natural historian Janine Benyus believes that imitating nature's best ideas ...
Natural historian Janine Benyus believes that imitating nature's best ideas can provide solutions to human problems. Could we store electricity like an electric eel to build a nontoxic battery? Benyus told Studio 360's Sarah Lilley how
