Tag: USA

You have to admire a good church conversion, and this one, created for a family in Illinois is simply wonderful. The conversion, by Linc Thelen Design and Scrafano Architects, took a 5,500 square foot church and transformed it into a...

Casper, a US mattress company, has come up with a very novel way to market its special foam mattresses: a nap tour of the United States. They’ve created this special nap pod on wheels which is travelling around the States...

Coca Cola has big advertising budgets, and the support of awesome agency Ogilvy & Mather, so it’s really no surprise that we come across brilliant campaigns like this, the Drinkable Commercial. Yep, in order to promote Coke Zero,  Coca Cola and...

Although technically not a pavilion, the USA’s Food Truck Nation is a separate area from their official space, and deserves a mention in our Pavilion A Day series. Food Truck Nation is the restaurant of the United States, but is not a traditional eatery...

We’ve talked about Luke Lamp Co. before, and now the US-based lighting brand is back with a Kickstarter campaign for The Baselamp. Essentially, it’s a lamp base with an integrated LED chip and recessed touch-capacitive dimmer switch, which has been developed...

We adore this style of photography, where images are placed in front of the exact place they were taken (see our own RiTOrno series, Hebe Robinson’s Echoes, or Maksim Zavialov’s polaroids), and Finnish fangirls Tiia Öhman and Satu Walden have taken...

Travel to the heart of St. Louis, Missouri and you’ll find the City Museum, possibly the best kids’ (and big kids’) playground in the world. Built on the 600,000 square foot site of the ex International Shoe Company, the museum/enormous...

The United States’ huge pavilion at the Milan Expo tells the story of the nation through topics such as science and technology, nutrition and health, and culinary culture. Designed by Biber Architects, the pavilion was inspired by traditional American barns, and...

This ongoing research project is the work of British multi-disciplinary designer Michael Pecirno, who has extensively researched various aspects of the geography of the United States in order to create single-subject maps dedicated to individual aspects of the country’s landscape. The maps,...

Let’s face it, some of us are really busy, some of us aren’t very good at knowing where to find what we want on the App Store, and some of us are just plain lazy. Magic is a service which...