Named “House on the Hillside”, Marchal + Fürstenberger Architects have created a the three-story building in Arlesheim, Switzerland where the top floor appears to be floating.  Each level is designed quite differently. The basement is fused with the topography of the hillside, the ground floor is surrounded with floor to ceiling …

Artist Joe Baldwin and the Chicago Transit Authority have come together to imagine a new way to promote Chicago’s green spaces. With the Mobile Garden concept, flat cars will be added to Chicago Transit Authority trains that will play host to native species of plants which require little maintenance. [via Treehugger]

Australian street-wear label General Pants have given their store staff the opportunity to scout talent for their new record label Major Label.   Designed for contract-free single-releases, the label gives all profits and track rights over to the artists.  Launching on the first of March this year, those wishing to …

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics has launched “Pretty Powerful”, a campaign featuring real women. A photo gallery profiles eight women, where clicking on each profile reveals a brief bio, a before and after image, video testimonial, and tips from Bobbi herself

Estee Lauder will be releasing a collaboration with New York institution the Neue Gallery in honor of their forthcoming Otto Dix solo show set to open in March. Inspired by the Weimar German Expressionists, the collection will include colors such as Berlin Red and will be sold exclusively at the …

Underwater Airplanes, Suburbia & Food Waste – here are a selection of  news headlines from around the world. World ‘The War Against Suburbia’ ‘No scan, no flight’ at Heathrow and Manchester Richard Branson Debuts Necker Nymph Underwater Plane Business Wall Street Gets a Lift From Economic Data Japanese Media See Trade Tensions in Toyota Recall PepsiCo chief …

Designer Fabian Hemmert has created an unusual new concept design that re-examines how we interact with mobile phones.  At TEDxBerlin last year, Hemmert demonstrated his prototype device that responds to touch – shifting weight and thickness in response to the changing use of the phone.

Based on the inner workings of advertising agencies in India, Omkar Sane and Aindri Chakraborty’s book Welcome To Advertising Now Get Lost is a series of creatively illustrated comments on the shortcomings of the industry.  Touching on everything from the pitch process to the creative brief to account management, the book …

Chances are, if you’re a young, affluent Chinese guy living in a large city of China, you’ve heard of P1.cn. Further chances are, your picture was taken by them and posted on their exclusively naughty and niche SNS community. You were probably then identified by a friend or co-worker and …