 |  | Bike-Lock Handlebars: Break Them, And The Bike Can't Be Ridden | | John Pavlus | | New York bike thieves don't play. They have Mission: Impossible-level skills and enough balls to steal your wheels in broad daylight... while being filmed. So when Savannah College of Art and Design student Jaryn Miller was told to design a solution to bike theft as a class exercise, he knew that throwing more iron at the problem wouldn't work. " If even the most durable lock is vulnerable, I figured I had to find a way to make it more trouble than it's worth to steal the bike," he tells Co.Design. His Senza lock actually functions as the bike's handlebars, so even if you destroy the lock, you'll have a hell of a time riding away.  Read more |  | | | Killing Of Osama Bin Laden Shows Masterful Media Strategy Against Al Qaeda | | Cliff Kuang | | Amid the stunning news of the surgical American commando operation that killed Osama Bin Laden, one feature looms large in the background: The extraordinarily careful, strategic, and savvy media management of the strike and its aftermath. Read more |  | | | Kids Do It Better: Alessi Taps Student Talent, With Stunning Results [Slideshow] | | Sizanne LaBarre | | Alessi, Italy's venerated purveyor of high-end home wares, tapped the best and brightest from ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne recently to produce a set of stunningly simple concept office accessories. Read more |  | | | The Scariest Dollhouses We've Ever Seen [Slideshow] | | Cliff Kuang | | Marc Giai-Miniet is a French artist who looks like Santa Claus and works like a madman, building much of his livelihood on small, fastidiously complex dollhouses, some just 36 inches long and 35 inches wide.
Mind you, these are not the dollhouses of little girls' dreams. They're packed to the rafters with dusty books and miners' bins and dirty clawfoot tubs, with a blackened submarine thrown in here, a statue of the Virgin Mary there. One house, called Le grand digérant ("The large one digesting"), has a giant, gloopy intestine where most would put the parlor room. Giai-Miniet is round about what'd you get if Kafka had earned his keep designing Barbie dreamhouses. Read more |  | | | How Graphic Design Could Help Resurrect A Declining Resort Town [Slideshow] | | Suzanne LaBarre | | Rhyl, Wales, is a town in the U.K. like many others. Once a thriving seaside destination -- a sort of Coney Island in a kilt -- it has deteriorated rapidly since the 1960s, as the roller coasters and penny slots lost out to affordable vacations abroad and paltry local investment. Now, Proud Creative, a design studio in London, has devised an intriguing visual identity to freshen Rhyl's image: It wants to make the place new by evoking the past. Read more | | CLICK HERE TO UNSUBSCRIBE   |
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