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How H.R. Giger, The Weirdo Designer Behind "Alien," Became A Household Name
Swiss artist H.R. Giger (b. 1940), who designed the titular monster in Ridley Scott's Alien, died Monday at age 74.Born in 1940 in Chur, Switzerland, "H.R. Giger grew up in very dark rooms having very...
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Falling In Love, Visualized
With apps like Tinder, dating in the online age can often feel like throwing a bunch of random balls into the air and then trying to juggle them at once. To visualize her recent dating history,...
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An Espresso Maker As Beautiful As The Sunrise
The mechanism of making espresso is simple. Although the life-giving elixir might seem magical, it's made by the simple method of pumping water through densely packed, finely ground coffee. Do it...
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Scientific Typeface Illustrates 26 Great Inventions
A glossary of the 26 inventions that have most changed the world have been turned into a literal ABCs, thanks to a new typeface by New Delhi design student Khyati Trehan.The project is called the...
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Nescafé Makes Waking Up To Instant Coffee Tolerable (Sorta)
Despite what Folger's says, few people find the prospect of waking up to a jar of instant coffee as palatable as waking up to a freshly brewed cup of Joe. But as a way of trying to up their product's...
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Eat Cake While Staring At The Apocalypse, With Disaster-Themed China
Handed down from generation to generation, fine porcelain china is one of the mainstays of the wedding gift table. The worlds these designs contain are so idyllic. Rendered in blue or red enamel, a...
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An Ode To Turkish Tea
Last year, I asked famed designer Marc Newson what he and his BFF Jony Ive talked about when they grabbed a couple of pints. I remember being extremely disappointed with his answer. He said that when...
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How Soviet Hipsters Saved Rock 'N' Roll With X-Ray Records
Hipsters aren't anything new. Under Stalin, even the U.S.S.R. had them. They were called stilyagi. Whereas today's hipsters are obsessed with skinny jeans and fixed-gear bicycles, the stilyagi were...
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Can A Fitness Tracker Disguised As A Swiss Watch Solve The Problem Of Wearables?
Wearable health trackers, including the Nike FuelBand, the FitBit Flex, and Apple's upcoming iWatch, are de rigueur right now. But they've all got the same problem: More than a third of all people who...
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The Harvard Law Review Gets Updated For The Age Of #Longreads
For publications as old as the Harvard Law Review, design is the thread of continuity that runs like a seam through over 125 years of history. But while the Harvard Law Review's famously...
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Do iOS 8's Hollow Icons Really Break People's Brains?
When Apple first released the newly redesigned iOS 7 last year, critics of the new look claimed that the wispy new line-drawing icons were far less legible than the bolder, more solid-in icons of iOS...
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Bye-Bye Clip Art: Pentagram Gives Venture Capital Firm First Round An Elegant...
Founded in 2004, First Round Capital has backed some of the hottest American tech and fashion companies today, such as Square, Uber, Fab.com, and Warby Parker. But the venture capital firm hardly...
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App Turns Your Smartphone Into A Panic Button
Human rights activists and journalists often hope to make a concrete difference in the way governments treat citizens around the world, but in the worst-case scenario, they can become themselves what...
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The World's Happiest Places, Visualized
Data viz wunderkind Moritz Stefaner has been on a happiness kick lately. Earlier this year, he analyzed the data of more than 3,000 images to try to determine the happiness of people New York, Bangkok,...
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How Google's Project Ara Could Pave The Way For Next-Gen UI
When you think about it, smartphones haven't changed dramatically since the iPhone was first released in 2007. Sure, they have gotten faster, more powerful, and thinner. They have far better sound,...
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Sci-Fi And Horror Films Turned Into Star Charts
Believers in astrology say that every birth happens under a star sign. For its latest series of infographics, U.K. chart makers Dorothy have taken that idea and run with it, sketching out the entire...
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What If M.C. Escher Designed A Typeface?
During his lifetime, famed graphic artist M.C. Escher explored the concepts of mathematical infinity and impossible geometry in a series of wood prints, lithographs, and mezzotints. One thing Escher...
View ArticleApple Is Killing Off Aperture, Its Pro Photo Editor
For years, Apple has made sure there's an OS X app to match your level of photographic proficiency. If you were an amateur, you had iPhoto; if you were a pro and needed more advanced features, you had...
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Where Do Emoji Come From?
Earlier this month, the Unicode Consortium--a nonprofit made up of member companies including Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and more--announced a new version of the Unicode Standard that would bring...
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Beautiful Stamps Reveal The Hidden Geometry Of The World Cup
Commemorative stamps are a great way for countries all over the world to capitalize on national pride, and there's no greater opportunity to showcase that pride than the World Cup. But from a design...
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