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This Ghostly Chandelier Is Made Of Ice
Belgian artist Arturo Erbsman specializes in designing lights that harness the ambient environment to beautiful and ghostly effect. His last design, the Polar Light, is no exception: It's an icy...
View ArticleThis Bluetooth Speaker Is A Levitating Death Star Of Sound
The Om One is a Bluetooth speaker with an anti-gravitational twist. It hovers and spins in mid-air, spitting out tunes like some sleek Death Star of sound.Weighing just three-quarters of a pound, this...
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Photo Essay Explores The Inner World Of A Trailer Park
Though many of us think of trailer parks as the wrong side of the tracks and the people who live there as misfits, the work of San Francisco-based photographer David Waldorf portrays the world of a...
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It Takes 4,500 Pages To Analyze And Archive One Second Of Twitter
How best to physically archive our digital lives seems an insurmountable task, and previous attempts to do so--like this plan to print out Wikipedia as a 1-million-page book--downright quixotic. But...
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This One Guy Approves 30,000 Beer Labels A Year, And Brewers Hate Him
This year alone, 29,500 individually designed beer labels have been submitted for approval to the Trade Department's Tax and Trade Bureau. And every single one of those label designs was approved or...
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Tom Hanks Releases A Typewriter App For iPad, And It's Insufferably Twee
Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks doesn't want to turn you into a twee hipster doofus using a typewriter in your local Starbucks. He wants to turn you into something even worse: the twee hipster...
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Can A Photographer Truly Capture Love?
Photographers routinely let us see the world through their eyes. Can they also reveal to us the qualities that make them love the people who inspire them? Des Moines-based curator Lindley Warren thinks...
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Turn Your World Into A Secret Message With This iPhone App
Knit is a new iOS app designed by Treble Apps that aims to make your iPhone a decoder for a world of secret messages, pinned to real-world locations by your friends and loved ones.In execution, Knit is...
View ArticleWatch How The Twitter Conversation Of #Ferguson Spread Across America
Since unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown was brutally gunned down by an unnamed police officer in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, #ferguson has become a Twitter hashtag used around the world to protest...
View ArticleInfographic: The Evolution Of The Bat Symbol
When we think of the symbols at the center of our favorite superhero's chest, like the Bat Symbol, we think about them like logos, with designs that are fixed for long periods of time. But as this...
View ArticleThe Simple Way "Sherlock" Solved Hollywood's Problem With Text Messaging
For as many problems as our smartphones solve, they also introduce at least a few narrative problems for storytellers. Take text messaging in film. How do you film two people texting each other in a...
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How Cities Sleep Around The World
The Jawbone Up is a wearable activity tracker that's particularly useful for individuals trying to live healthier healthier lives. But now its also being used as a tool that can give us better insight...
View ArticleThis Mexican Cemetery Becomes A Living Cartoon At Night
Stretching over 590 acres, the PanteĆ³n de Dolores is Mexico's largest cemetery, and contains over 700,000 tombs, gravestones, and sculptures. With all of those slabs of granite and marble around, the...
View ArticleBrowse Massimo Vignelli's NYC Subway Manual On Twitter
Created in 1972, Massimo Vignelli's revamp of the New York City subway map was as heralded by design nerds as it was reviled by New Yorkers. The designer transformed city geography into sleek geometric...
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How Ikea Destroys Relationships
Between the trials of its endless showcase labyrinth or fights spurred over that last Swedish meatball, Ikea has been the death of countless budding relationships. In fact, the plot of a special double...
View ArticleDigital Makeup Turns This Woman Into Living CGI
With just a small kit of powder, mascara, colored pencils, and paint, makeup can turn people into animals, monsters, paintings, and other people entirely. It can make the ugly beautiful, the beautiful...
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A Trash Can Jonathan Ive Could Love
Looking like a painted wooden column sliced diagonally in half with a samurai sword, the Swing Bin is one of the most beautiful trash bins we have ever seen.It's also a feat of creative construction....
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A 3-D Printed Wedding Ring For Your Creative Partner
There are some bonds that are forged in conditions that speak to everything that is noble within the human soul. We often mark these bonds with mementos. Two soldiers caught behind enemy lines who...
View ArticlePolice Say This Fancy Bus Stop Is A Safety Hazard
What happens when you let top architects design the bus stops for a small Austrian town? Well, in at least one case, you get a potential public safety hazard that police feel obligated to try to warn...
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Spotify Visualizes The Entire Planet As A Neverending Music Festival
Serendipity is what we call a happy coincidence. Serendipitous events can be big life events, like being stood up on a blind date and having the waitress turn out to be your future wife, or it could...
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