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Where Do Designers Go To Work After College?
Everyone who has ever gone to school to pursue an education in the liberal arts has known at least one asshat refer to it as a "Do you want fries with that?" degree. The implication is that the degree...
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90 Years Of NFL Player Growth, Animated
How do the hulking behemoths who play in the NFL today stack up against those who threw the pigskin around in 1923? Hoping to answer this question, developer and data journalist Noah Veltman mined the...
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13 Goofy Ads From The Early Days Of Computing
Part of what makes vintage advertisements fascinating is the way they reveal what the companies of an earlier era wanted people to think. That's as true of the early days of computing as it is...
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There's Finally A Modern Typeface For Programmers
Whether you're coding apps or banging out short stories, the typeface you choose to write in is important. But most typefaces out there are designed with writers, and not coders, in mind. A new...
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"Game Of Thrones" Now Has A Subway Map
The world of Westeros from George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series is vast. A story of war, sex, intrigue, magic, and dragons that takes place across almost a dozen kingdoms and two different...
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The Wall Hook Redesigned For The 21st Century
People have been screwing hooks into their walls for hundreds of years to hang their hats, coats, and umbrellas on, and it works well enough. You'd never think to redesign a wall hook in a million...
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Paul Rand's Classic "Thoughts On Design" Back In Print
First published in 1947, Paul Rand's Thoughts On Design is one of graphic design's seminal texts. Writing at the height of his career, the legendary designer passionately argued over the course of the...
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What's The Difference Between A Logo And A Symbol?
The misuse of the word "logo" is one of those things that gets many design-minded people practically purple-faced with anger (a sibling to debate over "fonts" v. "typefaces"). A logo, they say, is not...
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The Vesper Is A Vibrator You Wear Around Your Neck
Eyeglasses. Pens. It's a time-honored tradition to hang things you're likely to lose around your neck. And while that list doesn't generally include sex toys, there's no reason it can't: Meet the...
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'80s Electronics Turn Old Keyboards Into New Mosaics
In Marvel's recently released film Guardians of the Galaxy, galactic space rogue Peter Quill (aka Star-Lord) spends most of the movie carrying around an old 1980s Sony Walkman loaded up with a mixtape...
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Designer Rebrands Samsung's Logo To Make It As Iconic As Apple's
For 21 years, the Samsung name as served as the company logo, occasionally superimposed over a wobbly blue oval. It's the kind of logo that's fine on washing machines and televisions, but incredibly...
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What Famous Landmarks Would Look Like After The Apocalypse
In the award-winning 2013 PlayStation 3 game The Last of Us, civilization ends when the Cordyceps fungus turns humans into mindless zombies. Developed by Santa Monica-based developer Naughty Dog, the...
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Mounting These Shelves Is As Easy As Hanging A Picture On The Wall
If you want to put up shelves cheaply, you only have a couple of options. You can head to Home Depot, buy a bunch of plywood and brackets, and spend a weekend drilling holes in your wall. Or you can...
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How The World's Craziest Video Game Is Changing MoMA
Dwarf Fortress is probably the most complicated video game ever created. Tasking players with creating a self-sustaining world for its eponymous dwarves, entire epochs of time pass before you even...
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How Apple Uses Picasso To Teach Employees About Product Design
Founded by Steve Jobs in 2008 as a way to train future employees to think more like him, Apple University is an internal program that not only indoctrinates new employees into Cupertino's business...
View ArticleFried Chicken Logo Looks Like A Cock
The logo of a British fried chicken company is causing something of a ruckus because it looks like a cock--and not the avian kind.Based in Cardiff, Dirty Bird sells fried chicken out of a food truck at...
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Why The Kindle Is A Device Dieter Rams Can Love
No gadget gives me as much pleasure to pick up as my Kindle Paperwhite. I'm hard pressed to think of a device that is better designed to do one thing well: read digital books. But what makes the Kindle...
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How Bad California's Drought Really Is
We're all aware that California's drought problem is bad. But from an out-of-state perspective, it's hard to know what "bad" really means. Isn't California prone to droughts anyway? How terrible can...
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Microsoft Relaunches Its Original 1994 Site On The Web
In 1995, Microsoft released Internet Explorer, the web browser that would popularize, conquer, polarize, and ultimately hold back the progression of the World Wide Web. But a year before Microsoft...
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The Science Of Menu Design: How Restaurants Can Make You Choose A Salad Over...
Responding to the rise of American obesity rates, some politicians have proposed regulations that would require restaurateurs to reduce portion sizes, eliminate drive-thrus, and limit soft drink sizes....
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