There's A 9-Hour Movie Of A Guy Walking Through Tokyo, And You'll Want To...
Foot by foot, 28-year-old Ludovic Zuilli walks slowly and deliberately through Tokyo, but as he walks, the city around him unwinds. Salarymen hurry backward past him. Daredevils ride their bicycles in...
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How Zombies Help Siemens Design Disaster-Proof Cities
Once there's no more room in hell and the dead start walking the Earth, whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. See movies such as Dawn of the Dead and World War Z. Panic ensues. The entire grid falls...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong Between Type Legends Hoefler And Frere-Jones?
Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones were the Beatles of the type world. Then they broke up earlier this year in what we described as "the legal equivalent of a knife fight in the street." Now, new...
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Comic Sans Gets A Makeover
Call me mad if you will, but I think Comic Sans gets a bad rap. And I'm not the only one. While the mere sight of the font is enough to make some type purists scream, rip out their eyes, then bite off...
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Twitter's New Design Looks A Lot Like Facebook, And That's A Good Thing
After months of testing, Twitter has announced a new design that makes the popular micro-blogging service look a lot more like Facebook. But don't let that fool you. Twitter's as dedicated to being a...
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Graphic Designer Reinterprets The ABCs For Math Nerds
A couple months ago, Mark Gonyea proved that there is more than one way to count to 100. Now, the comics illustrator-turned-graphic designer is back, proving that there's more than one way to rattle...
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How Tobias Frere-Jones Discovered NYC's Lost Neighborhood Of Type
In the aftermath of his dramatic split with erstwhile partner Jonathan Hoefler, type designer Tobias Frere-Jones has been keeping busy. He has launched a new blog at Frerejones.com, and in his first...
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Star Wars Reimagined As WWII-Style Propaganda Posters
George Lucas's Star Wars films have always borrowed their inspiration from old sci-fi movie serials. Inspired by the likes of Flash Gordon[i], [i]Star Wars's entire aesthetic--from swashbuckling with...
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The Wonderful World Of Whiskey, In One Boozy Chart
Now available from Pop Chart Lab, the Many Varieties of Whiskey print aims to chart the guiding lights of the whiskey world with the Brooklyn-based company's customary aplomb. It categorizes and...
View ArticleMIT Unveils The Shapeshifting Furniture Of The Future
More Co.Design coverage of Milan Design Week:36 Ways To Reconsider The WeatherSee The Everyday Objects That've Inspired 12 Leading Creative MindsWhen it was first unveiled last year, the inFORM--a...
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Is Flat Design Already Passé?
Over the last few years, we've seen an upheaval in the way computer interfaces are designed. Skeuomorphism is out, and flat is in. But have we gone too far? Perhaps we've taken the skeuomorphic death...
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Wooden Mix-Tapes Give Visceral Form To Digital Media
Leaving aside thorny issues such as audio quality and whether or not it hurts artists, the debate between physical and digital music is really one of intimacy versus immediacy. Whether you're placing...
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Artist Imagines What Phantom Islands Might Look Like
Phantom islands are landmasses that existed, on maps, until someone proved that they either no longer exist or never existed at all. Perhaps an island had an identity but was later misidentified. Or it...
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Portable Robot Printer Is Like A Roomba That Squirts Ink
Designed by Zuta Labs and now on Kickstarter, the Mini Mobile Robotic Printer is one for the mobile age. It cleverly sheds the bulk of consumer printing by re-imagining what a printer actually...
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A Laptop Charger The Size Of A Smartphone Charger
Thanks to solid state storage technology and super-efficient chips, our laptops are thinner than ever before. Why can't the same be said for the enormous laptop chargers we have to lug around? Meet the...
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Metal-Heads And Their Cats
Cats are pretty versatile. They can be cute, mangy, fluffy, or sleek. They can be grumpy and they can be nice. But can cats be metal? Oh yes, says Alexandra Crockett, the photographer behind Metal...
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How Nike Turned An Italian Suit Label Into The Air Jordan XX9s
A well-designed clothing label is resilient. The signature of a designer, it is strong enough to stand up against years of wear, comfortable enough to feel like it isn't there at all, and vivid enough...
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The Worst Infographic Of 2014 (So Far)
Earlier this week, the NBC Nightly News decided to recreate an infographic originally published by the Pew Research Center, showing the distribution of race and ethnicity in the U.S. from 1960 to 2060....
View ArticleSamsung's Design Statement Proves It Is A Company Of Robots Bent On Enslaving...
When Apple released a statement on its design process last year, the company said, rather poetically, that every great design starts by trying to evoke an emotion in a person's heart.Compare that to...
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How A Supervolcano Would Disrupt International Flight
In April of 2010, an Icelandic volcano erupted largely without warning. It left travelers throughout Europe stranded as tons of volcanic dust and ash spewed into the atmosphere and grounded planes. By...
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