This is innovation: Atlas, the team that won the Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition did what scores of aircraft designers and engineers failed to do for 33 years. They weren’t specialist. They cracked the problem by going beyond ‘thinking outside the box’, they won by zeroing in on the right box.

via How An “Impossible” Aviation Challenge Led To An Innovation Breakthrough | Co.Design.

The Purple Line Project created a fake train station to demonstrate what Miami could be like with a better transportation system.

via Students Set Up Fake Train Station To Protest For Better Public Transit – PSFK.

London tube posters have always been notable for using a commercial platform to display unique and interesting works of art. These are not mere advertisements and PSAs, they are a history of graphic design and artistic style.

via London Underground Anniversary Celebrated With 150 Vintage Posters – PSFK.

Israeli designer Ronen “Tinman” Wasserman has developed a line of beautiful and sustainable furniture. By salvaging and upcycling discarded car parts, hetransforms them into tables, lamps chairs and sculptures.

via Old Car Parts Transformed Into Trendy New Furniture – International Design Times.

The all cardboard bike is shockingly durable: it can carry riders who weigh up to 485 pounds. A layer of coating atop the cardboard shields the bike from the elements and gives the finished product the look and feel of lightweight plastic. While the cost to make the bicycle ranges from nine to twelve dollars, the manufacturer expects to sell the vehicle for sixty to ninety dollars depending on the optional addition of an electric motor.

via Cycle on the Recycled: A $9 Cardboard Bike Set to Enter Production in Israel – Business – GOOD.