Design

BMW Builds an Art Car That’s Not an Art Car

Italian artist/prankster Maurizio Cattelan turns an i3 into a Spaghetti3.

Design: Remembering Bill Cunningham, Legendary Fashion Photographer

The influential lensman passed away on Saturday, June 25, at 86 years old.

Design: A Sleek New Tank Watch From Larsson & Jennings

Classic design, affordable price—what’s not to love?

The Black Swan Is a 229-Foot Yacht Made For a Supervillain

For the wealthy bad guy who wants to broadcast his nefarious motives.

Lars Fisk’s Automotive Sculptures Are a Ball—Literally

Rolling into the uncanny / tin-canny valley.

The Hyperloop Could Look Like One of These Wild Designs

SpaceX-approved competitors reveals what they think the future of transportation should look like.

NASA’s Giving Away These New Mars Travel Posters for Free

Drumming up support for Mars exploration with some retro-styled wall art.

Design: The Whitney Museum Gets A Stylish New Home

And it wasn’t cheap.

Design: China Is Building A Terrifyingly High Glass Bridge

If you’re afraid of heights, don’t watch.

Design: The World’s Backup Plan

Well done world.

Check Out These Photos from the Construction of the World’s Longest Train Tunnel

Building 35 miles of tunnel beneath the Swiss Alps isn’t easy, but it sure looks cool.

Design: The Fastest Helicopter in the World

In this case, speed is everything.

Design: The Panama Canal’s Big Expansion

The waterway will be able to accommodate ships twice as large.

Italian Automotive Masterpieces Invade Nashville’s Fine Art Museum

Come for the Alfa Romeo BATs, stay for the Braques and Brancusis.

Here’s the World’s First 3-D Printed Consumer Wheelchair

It’s a big deal. 

We Want These Vibrant, Pop-Art Silkscreens of Malaise-Era Automotive Decay

You can own your own piece of Rainer Keller’s “Machine Overdrive.”

Design: Classic Ford Broncos

They never go out of style.

Rolls-Royce Installing Pieces of Actual Assembly Line In the Final Phantoms

Then, a misty-eyed assembly-line robot looks the cars in the headlights and says: “Never forget where you came from.”

New App Turns Car Photos Into Custom Swim Trunks

Put some speed on your swimwear.

Bikes Based on People’s Attempts to Sketch Them from Memory

They’re pretty terrible. But could you draw a car?

Porsche Design Shapes Alpha Piano’s mPiano

Mechatronic keys and sleek lines make an instrument worth of A Space Odyssey.

Design: The Tunnel That Finally Connected England to Europe

Finally, you don’t have to swim.

See How the Masters Design Custom Motorcycles

Look inside The Build, a new book about the minds and metal of moto geniuses.

Design: NYC’s Lowline Is The Next Modern Marvel

A New York Exhibition Explores the Automobile in American Art

“The car is a symbol of a journey, of adventure, of freedom, and those are such American concepts.”