The effect could be positive for Australia's growth and allow new communities to flourish along the route.

How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world. By Kyle Chayka.

VIDEO: Questioning QWERTY.

What if instead of getting buried into garbage bags, old coffee grounds could be recycled into something useful and sustainable? That's the goal of Kaffeeform.

It's an apex predator built down to hunt down and break land speed records.

COWAROBOT R1 is the first carry-on suitcase that follows you as you walk using multi-sensor fusion technology and robot motion control algorithm.

A container ship with a hemispherical-shaped bow, which can significantly reduce wind drag, is under construction at Japanese shipbuilder Kyokuyo Shipyard, at its facility about 7km northeast of the Kanmon Straits in Yamaguchi Prefecture [Japan]. By Shinobu Takeda.

Seattle’s Trippiest Rock-Poster Artist Tells All. By Ben Marks. (May 25, 2016)

Prominent Canberra designer Robert Foster dies in two-car crash on the Kings Highway at Bungendore.

The Donald stuck with boring typography for his new logo. Boring, if it didn’t look like his gigantic ‘T’ was thrusting itself into Pence’s ‘P’

When I saw Davide Taub’s clothes, I was struck with desire. I sensed that wearing one of his garments would make me a different person. By Akhil Sharma.

O.K., Peter Doig may have tried LSD a few times when he was growing up in Canada during the 1970s. But he still knows, he said, when a painting is or isn’t his. So when Mr. Doig, whose eerie, magical landscapes have made him one of the world’s most popular artists, was sent a photograph of a canvas he said he didn’t recognize, he disavowed it. “I said, ‘Nice painting,’” he recalled in an interview. “‘Not by me.’” The owner, however, disagreed and sued him, setting up one of the stranger art authentication cases in recent history.

As the executive creative director of a branding firm, my days are filled with finding ways to visually express what a brand stands for, what it wants to be, and what it wants to say. One of the most common ways to accomplish that is with a logo or, in today’s age, a digital icon. Last week, Netflix’s team dropped the ball. Open your phone or tablet (or check Netflix out on social). You’ll see a new N where Netflix was; it looks sort of like a filmstrip, sort of like a ribbon, and sort of like, well, I can’t tell.

Metroid, Final Fantasy, and Zelda, all mapped out like your neighborhood metro.

Clothes can be forms of thought as articulate as a poem or equation. Why then does philosophy like to dress them down? By Shahidha Bari. (May 19, 2016)

over the decades ahead, the rolls royce vision next 100 offers virtually unlimited scopes of personalization, with customers being able to commission a genuine one-off piece.

"Method Design was tapped by production company RSA to concept and create this year’s AICP sponsor reel. The AICP awards celebrate global creativity within commercial production. Method Design wanted to create an entertaining piece of design that encapsulates the innovative and prolific nature of this industry. Our aim was to showcase the AICP sponsors as various dancing avatars which playfully reference the visual effects used throughout production. Motion capture, procedural animation and dynamic simulations combine to create a milieu of iconic pop dance moves that become an explosion of colorful fur, feathers, particles and more."

When a font, as the size largens, becomes more smooth and less jagged looking. Usually occurs around size 14px, where you can really distinguish the smoothness of the letter.

Haruka Misawa of Misawa Design Institution explores the unique environmental variation between air and water through a series of 3D printed aqua-sculptures, known as Waterscapes. The Japanese designer has created artistic aquariums lined with naturally inspired elements which were printed using the latest technology. The collection takes inspirational cues from the traditional water gardens and underwater arrangements made popular in Japanese culture, but introduces a modern take on the established aquatic architectural style.