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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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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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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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Intimate Photos Of How People Eat In New York City
When Miho Aikawa was a teenager, she was often annoyed when her parents would insist that they eat every meal together. As an adult, however, Aikawa recognized the value of the family meal--as a...
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The World's Smuttiest Places, Mapped
Schoolboys have been snickering at the name of Peru's Lake Titicaca for what must be centuries right now, but in the grand lexicon of geographical place names, it barely even merits censoring: There...
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800 Medical Marijuana Strains, Visualized Like A Big Bong Cloud
Marijuana. Cannabis. Mary Jane. Chronic. Dank. Smoke. The Magic Jay-Bone.Each and every one of us has a sizable mental thesaurus stuffed full of street names and slang terms for pot. But for medical...
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Resurrecting Prodigy, The World's Proto-Internet
Before we had the Internet, we had a sort of proto Internet in the form of Prodigy, which was created in 1984 as part of a joint venture between IBM, CBS, and Sears. Over at the Atlantic, Benji Edwards...
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Artist Arrested For Letting People 3-D Print Models Of Her Vagina
Megumi Igarashi loves pussy.More precisely, the 42-year-old designer loves her own pussy. Constructed from molds of Igarashi's genitalia, the artist's body of work includes a vagina lampshade, a vagina...
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Papercraft Guillotine Records Its Victims' Last Moments
Originally designed by Dr. Antoine Louis back in the late 18th century, the guillotine is one of the few design classics you don't really want to have first-hand insight into. As part of a new...
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Roboto Rebooted: Why Google Updates Its Font Like The Rest Of Its Products
In the digital age, the printing press has largely gone the way of Dodo, but we still treat the design of typefaces as being as permanent as if it was made up of centuries-old metal blocks. You just...
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Airbnb's New Logo Looks Awfully Familiar
Unveiled today in San Francisco, the new Airbnb logo--or Belo, as the home rental service is calling it--looks like a heart bent out of a paper clip. Some people like it; others think it looks like...
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Redesigning The Bible With Readability In Mind
The Bible is sometimes called the greatest story ever told. Its typography, on the other hand, leaves much to be desired. Unlike the layout of novels, the layout of the Old and New Testament...
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Visualized: The Weirdest, Wildest Viruses In Computer History
Founded and curated by Amsterdam-based writer Bas Van de Poel, the Computer Virus Catalog collects the weirdest viruses from the annals of computer history, and visualizes them as art. By pairing a...
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Turn Color Into Sound With This Synesthesia Synthesizer App
What does a piece of pizza sound like?Unless you have synesthesia, you've probably never heard the secret music of melted mozzarella and pepperoni for yourself. But thanks to a new app, you can. Called...
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What Charles And Ray Eames Might Have Done With Modern Materials
The Eames fiberglass shell chair has been made in the same way for almost 60 years. A mold covered in glue is dipped into a machine, which constantly spins around, resulting in a skeleton of a million...
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Infographic: The Universe Of Pop Culture Bears
Bears. From the stars in the sky, to the snuggly toilet paper mascot, they're @#$%ing everywhere. For your Bear Friday perusal, this fun infographic courtesy of USA Today visualizes the entire web of...
View Article24 Of Design's Most Important Principles, Animated
Although not anyone can be a designer, everyone who wants to can learn the elements of visual design: contrast, transparency, hierarchy, randomness, and so on. In fact, it doesn't even take all that...
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This TV Only Works When You're Smiling
All too often, we sit mutely staring at commercials, or distractedly flipping through channels, watching our televisions joylessly. But with the Smile TV, a student project by design graduate David...
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NewYorker.com Gets A Fresh New Look
Following a redesign of the magazine last September, the New Yorker has today unveiled a new look for its website. NewYorker.com is now easier to read on smartphones, desktops, and tablets.Updated New...
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iTunes Is Irrelevant. Now What?
A tumorous coalescence of features added higgledy-piggledy over 13 years, iTunes is the definition of a Frankenstein app.It's a media player! It's a media manager! It's a mobile device manager! It's a...
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