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Paris Métro Stops Come To Life In This Surreal Art Project
If you've ever found yourself standing on a subway platform at 3 a.m., you know this to be true: the most surreal moments in a metropolis often happen here. Deep under the earth, millions of people...
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Fascinating Old Chart Maps World's Tallest Mountains, Forgets Mt. Everest
For the design-minded, is there anything as satisfying as taking an unordered jumble of things and organizing it neatly? From sorting candy by color to artfully arranging trash, the Internet has long...
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After 2,500 Years, The Paper Airplane Goes Digital
If it seems like kids have been flinging paper airplanes at each other since the beginning of time, you're not far off: paper airplanes actually predate the Wright Brothers taking off at Kitty Hawk by...
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Euclidean Geometry Meets Mondrian In These Stunning 3-D Paper Sculptures
In 1847, an eccentric British mathematician named Oliver Byrne released a new edition of Euclid's famous mathematical treatise, The Elements of Geometry. Byrne added a rather longwinded but ultimately...
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What It Was Really Like To Fly During The Golden Age Of Travel
When we think about the Golden Age of Flying--the glory years of Pan Am and the Concorde in the 1950s and 1960s, before flight became cheap with the rise of the jumbo jet--we imagine a colorful, lavish...
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There's a scene in Judd Apatow's 2005 romantic comedy The 40-Year-Old-Virgin in which Steve Carrell, the titular virgin, tries to bluff his friends about his lack of sexual experience by describing...
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The Gross Secret Behind Star Trek's Old Costumes
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was nothing if not utopian. In his original vision for the science-fiction series, Roddenberry imagined a future in which a generation of space hippies went forth as...
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The 2020 World Expo Will Look Like A Crystal Palace From Space
The Shangri-La of the Middle East may be built upon shifting sands and the mirage of luxury, but come 2020, it will play host to the World Expo. For that, it is gaining another palace: a gorgeous...
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34 Posters Celebrate Braun Design In The 1960s
It's hard to overstate the influence of industrial designer Dieter Rams. At Braun in the 1960s, Rams put into practice a comprehensive approach to ID and brand strategy where products weren't designed...
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A Map Of The Weird World Of Cycling
If you've ever known bicycling enthusiasts, you know they not only speak their own language, but practically live in their own world. Luckily, realizing enthusiasts' worlds is what Dorothy does best....
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14 Gift Ideas For Type Lovers
Type is all around us. It dances on our screens, fills our books, flattens itself against our keyboards, and clings to the outsides of our buses. Yet so few of us see it for the vibrant and endlessly...
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These Victorian Baby Pictures Are Filled With Hidden People
Next time you see an old black-and-white photograph of a baby, look closer. That baby's mother might be hidden in the photograph. In fact, once you know what you're looking for, you'll probably start...
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This Genius Spoof Rebrands Santa For The 21st Century
Ever since Coca-Cola started featuring him in holiday ads back in 1931, and thus helped turn him into a pop culture icon, Santa Claus has been as much of a brand as he has been an omnipotent...
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Horrific Accident Inspires Eerie Photo Montages
In 2011, Diane Meyer's brother was hit by a car. His skull smashed in the accident, Meyer's brother needed to have a steel plate put in; even after the surgery, he was in a coma for several weeks. As...
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Fisher-Price Releases A Bouncy Seat For Baby's First iPad, And Parents Freak...
Fisher-Price's latest product is a bouncy seat for babies that is designed to put an iPad a foot away from a newborn's face. This has parents, doctors and child advocates hopping mad: An Internet...
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Why Printer Ink Should Be Packaged Like Chanel No. 5
There are few liquids on earth that cost more than printer ink. In fact, at a cost of $4,285 per liter, it's almost double the cost of even the most expensive perfumes. Put that way, there are few...
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How Do You Design One Cover For Two Books?
Designing a great cover for a famous novel can be a daunting enough task, but Canadian illustrator Ray Fenwick had to literally do one better. As part of a series in which Houghton Mifflin republished...
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The Monsters And Aliens Of America's Best B-Movies, Mapped By State
In League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, legendary comics magus Alan Moore imagined a Victorian England in which all of the most fantastic people, places and events in fantastic British fiction had...
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A Magic Box That Makes Music Out Of Manga
Even in the silent film era, when full orchestras would perform a score live as a movie flickered overhead, we have expected our movies to have sound. Yet we don't have the same expectations of...
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Photographs: The Beautiful Alien Worlds Of Scotch Glasses
There are more artists who have found inspiration at the bottom of a glass than one can count. Painter Francis Bacon was estimated to drink over six bottles of wine per day, while famous American...
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