Built in the 1930’s The Highline is an old overhead railway line to take heavy freight trains off the streets of Manhattans West Side. Instead of demolishing this rail line, it was salvaged by the City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation to become a park area in the sky above city traffic. Designed by the architectural firm Diller Scofido + Renfro the highline experience is definitely recommended.

On a recent visit to New York, I had the pleasure of visiting the New Museum 235 Bowery Street. It really is a spectacular building both inside and outside. In fact recently Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the architectural firm, SANAA who designed the museum, have been chosen as the 2010 Laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize for their designs.

The Kodak Brownie Camera Revived has been for 2012 Olympics. Designed by James Coleman the Kodak Brownie has some of the features of the old Kodak Brownie (see right) like having to view the image through the lens from above.

The new Kodak Brownie design is a celebration of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The various cameras are colourful and in keeping with the London 2012 logo.

Found via Yanko Design

This photograph of the interior of the Statue of Liberty has nice abstract shapes and pretty cool details. We like to show nice images so I thought we’d post it up!

While researching for a design project we are currently working on, I found this really cool article Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up by Jonah Lehrer in Wired magazine. The piece traces how you can learn from the messiness of real failed experiments, while concentrating particularly on the work of Kevin Dunbar who is a researcher who studies how scientists study things – how they fail and succeed. Its an interesting area to explore in order to improve work processes and an article definitely worth checking out…