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Data Cuisine: The Edible Future Of Infographics
It would be fair to say that visualization maestro Moritz Stefaner eats up data. Over the years, he has used data for everything from identifying the world's selfiest cities to showing the hidden...
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Artist Glues Together Hundreds Of Colored Pencils To Create World's Most...
The streaks in these beautiful wooden vases appear, at first glance, to be lines of paint, or maybe veins of burl. The truth is more astonishing: They're lead. Because these wooden vases aren't just...
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A Short History Of Typewriter Art
One quality that seems to define humanity isn't just its compulsion to create art, but to create art in the most impractical ways. For proof, look no further than Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology, by...
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Designer Dad Teaches His 2-Year-Old Daughter About Typography With Edible ABCs
Zoë Perez is a pretty typical two-year-old girl. Like many two-year-old girls, she loves fairies and princesses, but she's just as likely to cross the pink aisle to fight a dragon or plunder some booty...
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Moment: The Invisible App Designed To Cure iPhone Zombies
The world is filled with billions of smartphones, and they have enhanced our lives in countless ways. But they have also been responsible for the creation of hundreds of millions of smartphone zombies:...
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Behind The Scenes Of Design Observer's New Look
Launched in 2003, Design Observer has been one of the most influential sources for design thinking and criticism on the web. It was founded by four outspoken design critics at a time before the web...
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These Beautiful Objects Are Made Of Human Hair
As the brains behind Studio Swine, Azusa Murkakmi and Alexander Groves specialize in figuring out ways to transform trash into beautiful design treasures. Previously, they have created furniture from...
View ArticleInfographic: Famous Writers Who Hated Each Other's Guts
Writers have been slagging each other off for centuries, and this fun interactive infographic courtesy of the Huffington Post is a good primer on just how ugly it can get.Unlike modern celebrity...
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Narragansett Brings Back The Beer Can Design From "Jaws"
From Spuds MacKenzie to Sam Adams, there have been many beer spokesmen over the years, but none of them can beat Quint, the Narragansett chugging shark hunter from Stephen Spielberg's Jaws. Played by...
View ArticleWhy Do We Love Michael Bay's Cinematic "Bayhem"?
Transformers: Age of Extinction, Michael Bay's latest vertiginous slow-mo cacophony, has reached a new critical nadir even for the franchise. With a mere 17% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it's by...
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Steve Jobs Meets "Swiss Family Robinson" In Awesome Glass Tree House
Designed by Russia's A. Masow studio, this gorgeous glass confection is a modern-day tree house. The three-storied circular building will be constructed around a 40-foot fir tree; a cylindrical glass...
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Discarded Japanese Gadget Factories Are Becoming High-Tech Greenhouses
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, companies such as Fujitsu, Toshiba, and Panasonic are beginning to grow produce such as lettuce and strawberries where silicon chips were once grown...
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The Tour De France As A Tube Map
First designed in 1931, Harry Beck's Tube Map of the London Underground might be the most iconic transit map in the world. But can a design language used to make sense of the 249 miles of underground...
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Suspended Machines Exist Only To Keep Themselves From Falling Down
Each one of us is, more or less, a Rube Goldberg machine: an implausible and over-engineered construct of flesh, sinew, brain, and bone that only exists to compensate for the complications caused by...
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A Beautiful Wikipedia Design That Borrows Inspiration From iPad Apps
When it comes to design, there are few pillars of the Internet more resistant to change than Wikipedia. Although every single word on the 32+ million page digital encyclopedia can be edited by anyone,...
View ArticleWhy Britain Has The Best Wall Sockets On Earth
Anyone who has traveled to the United Kingdom has probably marveled at the imperial bulk of the standard U.K. wall plug. With three chunky, rectangular pins, the design at first glance seems almost...
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Is A Smart Thimble The Computer Mouse Of The Future?
Although it has gotten us through the last 50 years of computer history, the computer mouse has one big, contemporary design problem: It only works well with 2-D interfaces. That's fine for a...
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3-D Printing Brings Marcel Duchamp's Long-Lost Chess Set To Life
Artist and sculptor Marcel Duchamp might be most famous for his Modernist painting Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2, but his true passion may have been chess. After retiring to pursue an almost...
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Death And Pizza: How Domino's Lost Its Mascot
In 1986, advertising agency Group 243 was tasked with creating a mascot for Domino's Pizza. Their creation--the Noid--was one of the most inexplicably popular mascots in corporate history. But in a...
View ArticleWatch: This Optical Illusion Will Make You Hallucinate
Dropping a tab of acid is a surefire way to experience a hallucination, but for a less chemical-heavy trip, set aside two minutes and watch this video. Then immediately look away. Come back when you're...
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