Cool Hunting

Copenhagen Bike Share Competition
Challenging cyclists to create "an attractive and modern bike share system," Copenhagen pushes their standing as a forward-thinking, eco-friendly city with a competition open to designers around the globe. Updating their 1995 bike sharing system (the first of its kind), the major goal is to create a transportation system effective in increasing the percentage of cyclists around Copenhagen while decreasing the number of injuries—geared...

Design Miami Call Out to the Americas
In response to the dearth of American design, the organizers behind the 2009 season of Design Miami are soliciting portfolios from designers throughout the region. From the Carribean to South America to Central America and North America, the project seeks portfolios of "high quality, high concept objects-for-use made through handcrafted, high-tech and/or experimental processes," as well as "from emerging, experimental architects."For your chance to...

Holger Schubert Maserati Garage
by Tamara Warren A beautiful car deserves a beautiful garage, and Holger Schubert’s minimalist 1200-square-foot carport for Maserati's Design Driven competition is exactly that. Overlooking western Los Angeles, Schubert's winning design has a setting more akin to an art gallery than a garage. Accessed by a separate driveway bridge, the sustainable structure allows the car to remain the focal point of the airy elevated garage....

Third Ward Open Call Photography Exhibit
by Tisha Leung Are you an avid photographer who thinks outside the box's box? Third Ward, Williamsburg's go-to resource for the creative design professional, recently announced their first-ever Open Call for photography. With a goal of finding the best new creative work from emerging photographers, the missive turns to photography's evolution as a catalyst, looking to its development from daguerreotypes to glass negatives and from...