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Designing A Better Female Condom
The female condom. In the already somewhat icky seeming world of prophylactics, no three words conjure up quite the same degree of embarrassment and censure. Since the debut of the female condom in...
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Hoefler & Frere-Jones: The Final Interview
When Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Hoefler, the Beatles of the typography world, dramatically broke up their famous partnership in January, what was perhaps most shocking was the bitterness that...
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Facebook, Google, And Sony Are Getting Ready To Fight A Cyberpunk War
Science fiction has always presaged the advent of actual technology, and taught us how to think about it before it comes. A century before the Apollo Space Program, Jules Verne had flown a rocketship...
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The Ricin Cigarette, The Meth Cooker RV, And More Patent Applications From...
The filing cabinets of the United States Patent Office do not immediately come to mind as a finding ground for interesting art, but the collective genius--both crackpot and legitimate--of America's...
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Watch: The Dying Craft Of Neon Signs
Since the 1920s, the cities of the world have been given light and life at night by the flickering, almost phantasmagoric lettering of neon signs. As efficient LEDs replace glowing tubes full of neon...
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HTC Introduces The Lite-Brite Of Smartphone Cases
There's nothing exciting about smartphone cases. The prophylactics of the gadget world, they cost literally pennies to make; go to any consumer electronics trade show, and they will be thrust into your...
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Artist Makes NBA Player James Harden's Beard His Muse
NBA All-Star James Harden is known just as much for his majestic beard as for his skills on the court. In James Harden Illustrated, Croatian illustrator Filip Peraić has made that beard his muse,...
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A Beer With Brains Designed To Taste Like The Dead
What does it taste like to be dead? Drink this beer and find out. That's the surprise selling pitch of Walker, a new brew from Philadelphia's Dock Street Brewing Company that tries to reproduce the...
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Design God Milton Glaser Drinks Beer, Complains About Their Labels
Famous designers don't booze like you or me. When Jony Ive and Marc Newson get together for a few pints, for example, Newson once told me that they spend most of their time measuring the circumference...
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Beautiful Glass Coffeemaker Demands A Place On Your Counter
No one really wants a Keurig. The company's coffee sucks. Its pods are environmentally wasteful, since the plastic they use is not recyclable. They're a terrible deal: a single pound of coffee...
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Astronaut Designer Imagines 32 Skyscrapers Of The Future
At the Louvre, the classical Hellenistic form of the Winged Victory of Samothrace dramatically crowns the head of the Daru staircase. In the mind of Russian architect and skyscraper futurist Vasily...
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Why Garamond Won't Save The Government $467 Million A Year
Last week, media outlets from CNN to the Economic Times reported on a story that pretty much everyone could feel good about: a 14-year-old font nerd in Pittsburgh crunched some numbers and figured out...
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From Amorphism To Zoom, The Field Notes Of Graphic Design
You can never have too many notebooks. My girlfriend, for example, has a set of 50 colorful Field Notes, one for each state, which she writes all of her ideas in when she goes on road trips. I like to...
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How The "Star Wars" Lightsaber Was Designed
In all of the annals of film and science fiction, you'd be hard pressed to find an object as singularly identifiable as the Star Wars lightsaber. Even if you don't like science fiction, you can...
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Artist Uses Type For Paint In Gorgeous Travel Posters
At least since the invention of the typewriter, people have been using type to create art. In 1893, the first typographic pictures of Christopher Columbus, the Santa Maria, and a butterfly were...
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This Is The Russian Nesting Doll Of Kitchen Gadgets
The modern kitchen has no shortage of gadgets--the juicers, the squeezers, the zesters, the mashers, and so on--but what it is short on, more often than not, is space. Perhaps that's why the matryoshka...
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How Spotify Might Win The Streaming Music Wars
Spotify, the popular music streaming service with more than 24 million active users, has been dominating the music landscape thanks to its great features, open API, and extensive library of songs. But...
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Growing up in the '80s, the surrealist illustrations of vintage science textbooks always fascinated to me, but this animated music video takes the cake. A collage of drawings from old schoolbooks of 50...
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How Cereal Boxes Are Designed To Hypnotize You
Next time you wander down the cereal aisle with your shopping cart, ask yourself this: Why on Earth are all the cartoon mascots--Fred Flintstone, Cap'n Crunch, the Trix Rabbit, and so on--staring...
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Digital Clocks Updated With An Elegant Script Typeface
While most smartwatches like the Galaxy Gear and Android Wear push the boundaries on the sorts of displays you can have on your wrist, the vast majority of digital watches today still get by with a...
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