71 percent of adults used to play on the streets when they were young; 21 percent of children do so nowadays. Sad, but a true. What can we do about it? Well, Bruno Taylor has a few ideas.

While completing his Masters in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martin, Bruno explored different ways of bringing play back into public space - focusing specifically on adapting existing street furniture and architectural elements so as to provide opportunities for incidental play in the public realm. The photo above (and video clip below) shows how he added swings to London bus stops to let commuters "play as you go".

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Information Architect Sean Tevis is running for Kansas State Representative. Check out his XKCD-style "story so far".

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"Society In Decline Project: Intrastate Commerce" - a highfalutin title for a beautiful Flickr set that showcases old US signs.

[via Quipsologies]

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Big in Japan: Bento/lunchbox art...

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Fez looks like your average 2D platform game...but fast forward the video clip above to around 00:30 and you'll see that it puts a whole new spin on this rather tired genre. That's right, at various points in the game, the user can switch from 2D to 3D!

Pretty neat, eh! Perhaps this technique is something that Microsoft and Apple should be exploring in the next versions of their operating systems (if they aren't already). Everyone knows that working in 2D is best for the vast majority of tasks; however, in certain circumstances, it would be really nice to be able to switch from 2D to 3D and back. For example, imagine being able to look around the side of your 2D browser window to see what applications are running on your desktop behind it!

[via ReadWriteWeb]

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