Firebelly x Good Chaos: How an Ongoing Partnership Influenced a Joyful Identity

Liz’s work instantly dazzled and lit up my design brain… My eyes followed the edges bouncing from color to color. The longer you looked, the more you were rewarded.

Around the same time as Firebelly’s partnership with Colossal, the Chicago design studio was also developing a brand identity for Good Chaos, an impact organization committed to creating opportunities for artists. As part of its initial launch, Good Chaos was seeking a trio of local artists to design distinct logos for the organization and create interactive and joy-filled digital experiences on the Good Chaos website.

In his research, Firebelly’s...

The Matrix-like AI project among proposals from the Manchester School of Architecture

Dezeen School Shows: a project that envisions a future in which society is fully reliant on AI is among the architecture projects from the Manchester School of Architecture.

Also included is a community centre created to celebrate Irish heritage and a pavilion made entirely from repurposed waste.

Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University and The University of Manchester
School: Manchester School of Architecture
Courses: Master of Architecture (MArch), Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA), Master of Arts in Architecture and Urbanism (MA A+U) and Master of Arts in Architecture and Adaptive Reuse (MA AR)
Tutors: Chris Maloney, Rosie Parks, Mark Hammond, Julie Fitzpatrick, Stefan White,...

Extreme Package Design: The Art Edition of the "Calatrava - Complete Works" Book

If you're a fan of the architect Santiago Calatrava, you can buy Taschen's "Calatrava – Complete Works 1979 – Today" coffee table book for $200. The nearly-700-page tome is loaded with text and images including both photos and his original watercolor sketches.

If you're a Calatrava superfan, you can pony up for the special Art Edition of the book. This version, of which only 300 were produced, comes with two signed lithographs and a pretty on-brand package design by Calatrava himself:

The...

LegoGPT AI model turns text prompts into Lego designs

A team of computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University has created LegoGPT, an AI model that can build real-life Lego structures from a single text prompt.

The team, led by Ava Pun, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and one of the study's coauthors, decided to train the AI model on Lego bricks because they are widely available and results can be easily reproduced in different labs.

However, the underlying idea for LegoGPT could have real-world applications, such as helping architects design structurally sound buildings or designers create custom furniture.

House Pedra / Marcos Bertoldi Arquitetos

© João Vitor Sarturi architects: Marcos Bertoldi ArquitetosLocation: Curitiba, BrazilProject Year: 2024Photographs: João Vitor SarturiArea: 887.0 m2

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An Easy Way to Recycle Your Firm's Material Samples

If you've ever worked at an industrial design or architecture firm, you've seen that closet or series of storage bins filled with material samples. Eventually there's a major office cleanup to reclaim space, and a bunch of that stuff goes.

Goes where? Into landfill, according to Swatchbox, a sample-providing middleman between manufacturers and designers. "The architecture and design industry generates tons of waste from specifying materials," they write. "Every day, thousands of physical samples (tiles, textiles, laminates) are shipped out to architects and designers globally. Most end up in landfills after a single use."

That's...

When Transparency Gets Intimate: Manufacturing Honesty in the Age of Trade Wars

What a time to be alive—especially if you're in the business of making things that people actually want to touch, wear, and, well... use intimately.

San Francisco-based Crave launched their latest edition of the Tease Necklace while doing something radical in our current trade war environment. Instead of the usual manufacturing shell game (where your "designed in California" product mysteriously appears from a factory you've never heard of), they're offering customers a choice:

- Made in China - Assembled in USA - Fully Made in USA

Same product. Three different manufacturing stories. Full transparency on what each option actually...

In Surreal Portraits, Rafael Silveira Tends to the Garden of Consciousness

With scenic vistas for faces, blossoms for eyes, or nothing but coral above the shoulders, Rafael Silveira’s surreal portraits summon aspects of human consciousness that span the spectrum of the wonderful and the weird. The Brazilian artist describes his work as “a profound dive into the human mind,” merging flowers, landscapes, and uncanny hybrid features into visages that channel humor with a slightly sinister undertone.

Silveira’s forthcoming solo exhibition, Agricultura Cósmica at DCG Contemporary, traverses “the fertile terrain of the subconscious,” the gallery says. “With a nod to pop surrealism and the uncanny, his work imagines the mind as a garden...

MAFGA (Make American Fonts Great Again)?

With the U.S. experiencing social turmoil, economic uncertainty and a fracturing of international bonds, it's a strange time to re-introduce a patriotic font that is meant to have global appeal. For reasons unknown Delve Fonts, a California-based digital type foundry, has re-released this Astra Nova font.

Designed in 1969 by designer/photographer François Robert, it was inspired by the stars on the American flag and "channels his admiration for the best aspects of American culture," according to Delve. The original design was simply called "Astra," and it won a Letraset design competition in 1973. The new, "revitalized" digital...

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