Building of the Week | How a Massive Glass Casino Represents Traditional Native American Forms

Each week, Wired Design brings you a photo of one of our favorite buildings, showcasing boundary-pushing architecture and design involved in the unique structures that make the world's cityscapes interesting. Check back Fridays for the continuing series, and feel free ...

A Watchmaking Renaissance Is Yielding the Most Complicated Timepieces Ever

New materials. Outlandish technologies. Insane movements. Today’s watchmakers are engineering the most complicated mechanical timepieces ever.

Push Back Against the Elements With New Flexible, Super-Strong Umbrella

Anyone who has spent time in blustery, rainy climates knows the frustration of an umbrella defeated by the elements. In 2009, designer Federico Venturi experienced this frustration firsthand and, instead of throwing away the broken umbrella like everyone else does, ...

Celebrate Penny Arcade’s Revived Podcast With 10 More Awesome Design Web Shows

Design freaks (and freaks of any persuasion, really) can find a digital treasure chest of entertaining content in the realm of the podcast. Allowing for interested parties to expand beyond radio/tv/print restrictions, the format continues to grow in professionalism and ...