Mr. Rashid, 54, is a designer whose real estate projects include work for HAP Investments in East Harlem and Chelsea. He is best known, however, for industrial designs, including work in home furnishings, brand identity and packaging. Among his creations are the bobble water bottle, the Oh Chair and…

Karim Rashid has made an art of bringing new ideas and innovation to the widest-possible audience. A recipient of hundreds of international awards and creator of thousands of paradigm-shifting designs, Rashid lectures extensively, creates interiors for a wide range of hospitality venues and…

As America -- and the world -- continues to shake off the giant hangover that was the Great Recession, there remains one symbol of our excess and, some might say, poor judgment, that can elicit a particular type of groaning and remorse: the McMansion. Anyone who's watched an episode of Cribs or…

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Alexei Druzhinin/Associated Press) Eric Chenoweth is co-director of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe. In assessing Donald Trump’s presidential victory , Americans continue to look away from this election’s most alarming story: the successful effort by…

President Obama and President Raúl Castro of Cuba at the end of a press conference in Havana in March. Alejandro Ernesto/European Pressphoto Agency WASHINGTON — President Obama said on Saturday that the death of Fidel Castro was an occasion for Americans to “extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban…

Photo-Illustration: Vulture This week, Vulture is taking a look at great unproduced, unreleased, or unheralded entertainment. In 1994, British rock writer Clinton Heylin published Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry , an entertaining history of the illicit form. Tracing the…

In the recent bestselling video game Life Is Strange , a teenage heroine gains the ability to rewind time. She uses it to solve problems, address regrets, and return to a period in her life when she was completely carefree. It’s a game that seems deliberately crafted to make the adults playing it…

Marina Abramovic thinks I think too much, and am not very useful besides that. And she is not wrong. Abramovic, when she turns her tractor-beam Slavic-magic gaze on you, sees a lot. Being with her, under the spell of that attention, makes you feel both protected by and protective of her. It’s a bit…

Donald Trump on Tuesday at the New York Times. That morning, he described the newspaper as “failing”; in the afternoon he praised it as a “great American jewel.” PHOTOGRAPH BY SPENCER PLATT / GETTY The second week of the Trump transition brought several new appointments, the first specific policy…

Life’s too short to build something nobody wants… When thinking of User Experience, we often think of a simple, beautiful, and easy to use feature-set of a product, that makes the user’s life easier. But as a matter of fact, features are merely a small, fragile part of the product. They are only a…

Excerpt from Savage Sword of Jesus Christ. Photo: Metal Mammoth Inc. The God of All Comics is about to tackle the God of Abraham. Celebrated comics writer Grant Morrison — scribe of acclaimed works like The Invisibles , All-Star Superman , Animal Man , New X-Men , JLA , and an epic run on various…

(Fox/NBC/TBS/Ringer illustration) You could sure use some super-weird TV right now — disarming and surrealist and a little silly. Maybe a lot silly, with deep-thought philosophical overtones if you want ’em, but it’s cool if you don’t. Nothing too grim or dense or prestige. Also, whatever you…

Vandalism, offensive jokes, even criminal assault — reports of bias-based harassment have spiked since Donald J. Trump’s victory in the presidential race. Few of the perpetrators have been caught, but here is a look at five cases in which people have been directly accused. Some apologized. One…

Count Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s White House consigliere-in-waiting, as the latest political operative who has extrapolated a single, narrow presidential victory into a blueprint for a generation of electoral dominance. “The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class…

Donald Trump schlepped across town on Tuesday to meet with the publisher of The New York Times and some editors, columnists and reporters at the paper. As The Times reported , Trump actually seemed to soften some of his positions: He seemed to indicate that he wouldn’t seek to prosecute Hillary…

I had just shaken the president-elect’s normal-size hand and he was moving on to the next person when he wheeled around, took a half step back, touched my arm and looked me in the eye anew. “I’m going to get you to write some good stuff about me,” Donald Trump said. It’s entirely possible. I keep an…

President-elect Donald Trump, in Washington, has continued to criticize the media in the days since the election. Photograph by Zach Gibson / Getty The fantasy of the normalization of Donald Trump—the idea that a demagogic candidate would somehow be transformed into a statesman of poise and…

Just because Donald Trump was willing to enter the enemy’s den and soften his rhetoric doesn’t mean that anything about his approach to the Presidency has changed. PHOTOGRAPH BY LUCAS JACKSON / REUTERS Evidently, it was the Dr. Jekyll version of Donald Trump who left his Fifth Avenue aerie around…

AMERICA is about to take a hard right turn. All that is in doubt is whether the final destination is one that Ronald Reagan might have saluted—a country of low taxes, light regulation and free markets, in which individuals and businesses are free to seek prosperity with a minimum of government…

Photo: Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images Almost 59 million people voted for Donald Trump yesterday. On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump will become the 45th president of the United States. Simply put, a lot of white people learned last night that white supremacy is everybody’s problem. Black…

This article originally appeared on VICE France One Saturday night, while waiting for my train at Paris' République Station, a stranger asked: "Should we get to know each other a bit better?" "Okay," I replied. The guy froze and stared at me as if I was messing with him. "Really? You're actually up…

I’m not going to sugarcoat this at all. We are in for a full-blown assault on LGBTQ rights the likes of which many, particularly younger LGBTQ people, have not seen. Progress will most certainly be halted completely, likely rolled back. And it’s already underway. First, forget any of your thinking…

Photo of Emily Witt by Noah Kalina/courtesy of the author When I met Emily Witt six years ago, I felt that touch of vertigo that comes when you realize you're in the presence of a highly sophisticated and committed mind. Witt is an alumnus of Brown, the Columbia School of Journalism, and Cambridge.…

Lyft Around the time that the ridesharing economy began booming in major U.S. cities, an embarrassing trend emerged. Drunk and/or privileged people began assuming every car on the street was their Uber or Lyft. We so quickly became accustomed to ordering private cars via smartphone that the issue of…

“Life is lonely, boring and dumb.” — The Doom Generation “I feel like a gerbil smothered in Richard Gere’s butthole.” —also The Doom Generation Gregg Araki likes young people. He likes their asymmetrical dyed hair and ripped denim, the tight fabrics that look like placeholders waiting to be ripped…

1979 Revolution is a game about the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79. It came out back in April this year and, two weeks later, the Iranian government announced its plans to ban it . Specifically, Iran’s National Foundation for Computer Games (NFCG) planned to ban any website or individuals selling the…

Iranian women walk past an anti-United States mural. (Abedin Taherkenareh/European Pressphoto Agency) ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates What does Donald Trump’s election mean for the Middle East? A group of prominent foreign ministers and policy experts gathered here last weekend to explore the…

Jacob Blickenstaff has been photographing Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings since 2009. He started out documenting shows, then recording sessions, and was eventually asked by Gabe Roth, a co-founder of Daptone Records, to shoot his first album cover for the label, “I Learned the Hard Way,” depicting…

Gallery DJ Shadow Begins Photo by B+ As we finalize Wax Poetics Issue 66, with DJ Shadow on the cover, we offer some bonus coverage as a sneak peak of our cover story by David Ma—the DJ Shadow origin story. And don’t miss the Endtroducing box set out now. Issue 66 also features Family Stone…

The TV show’s techno-dystopian “what if”s have proved remarkably prescient. Illustration by Malika Favre In 1999, at the age of twenty-eight, Charlie Brooker, the British satirist who is now a television auteur, was at a low ebb. He’d spent most of his twenties freelancing for PC Zone, a little-read…

Algorithms are now used throughout the public and private sectors, informing decisions on everything from education and employment to criminal justice. But despite the potential for efficiency gains, algorithms fed by big data can also amplify structural discrimination , produce errors that deny…

2014–09 Vulture — Dick Knight (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) From now on, I won’t be building any more native apps. All my apps going forward will be progressive web apps. Progressive web apps are web applications which are designed to work even more seamlessly on mobile devices than native mobile apps. What do…

I recently wrote an article called “Native Apps are Doomed.” I was surprised at how many people were defending native apps. In all honesty, the user experience story for native apps has never been impressive. The numbers paint a bleak picture for native app success rates that teams need to be aware…

On Thursday evening, President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to announce that he “Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, Chairman of Ford, who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Kentucky - no Mexico.” He followed up a few minutes later to assert his role in the decision:…

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/d/dd/Yodalukedagobah.png/revision/latest?cb=20130324024419 There’s some interesting research in social psychology explaining how most people form their peer groups. Especially as children and adolescence, but often as adults, people select their…

Warren Ellis is a writer who works in many different forms: novels, graphic novels and prodigious rants about coffee . His writings generally blend big ideas with a deeply felt humanism, including his earlier novels, Gun Machine and Crooked Little Vein , and his work in comics, from the…