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Wikiwand Gives Us The Wikipedia Redesign Jimmy Wales Won't
We've seen our share of concepts for imbuing Wikipedia with a more modern and responsive design. But it's not likely that Jimmy Wales and Co. will adopt any of them--or any radical redesign, for that...
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How The Forgotten Brother Of A Famous Typographer Helped Save The London...
Twentieth-century British typographer Eric Gill is known just as much these days for his typefaces as he is for his erotic proclivities (which include keeping a detailed diary of his rendezvouses with...
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Apple's Biggest Design Crime
Want to play a fun little game? Okay, great! Which of these iOS 7 keyboards has the Shift key pressed?Ready? Go!Geoff TeehanDid you guess correctly? Congratulations! After almost a year of using an...
View ArticleHow An Emmy Statuette Is Made
Last year, the organization behind the Emmys gave the brand a facelift. But the Emmy statuette itself? Like the Oscar, it's meant to be timeless. The manufacturing process is explained in this video...
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Instagram's Hyperlapse Is A Beautiful Algorithm, But It Makes No Sense As Its...
Hyperlapse is a standalone new app from Instagram that speeds up and stabilizes videos into professional-looking steadicam shots.Available now on iOS (an Android version is tentatively planned),...
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How You Watch Porn
If you watch porn online, the computer you're using is enough to determine whether you're a premature ejaculator there to watch Lisa Ann squirting videos, or whether you're a long-lasting lover on a...
View ArticleIs Paris Best Experienced Through The Lens Of A Camera?
Paris Through Pentax is a short film by French filmmaking studio Maison Carnot that shows the bustle of Parisian streets--the trains rumbling through Gare du Nord, spring afternoons spent people...
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Life In Egypt's City Of The Dead
Stretching across several miles on Cairo's southeastern border, Cairo's City of the Dead is not just an Islamic necropolis that dates back to 642 AD. It's a suburb with its own power lines, post...
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The Most Devious Riddle In Chess Becomes An Addictive iOS App
Chess is a game that is often used to express mathematical concepts of the infinite. Although each game takes place on only an 8x8 board, we've known since 1950 that there are more possible chess games...
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7-Year-Old Redesigns Sauce Label To Look Less Like It Contains Cat Poop
How bad does packaging have to be for a little kid to say, "I can do better" and for everyone to agree? Ask Waitrose, a British supermarket chain, which recently redesigned the label of its Brown Sauce...
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Beach Crowds Are Beautiful From 5,000 Feet In The Air
This Labor Day Weekend, thousands of Americans will begin one final migration to the local beach, in what will doubtless be their last chance to enjoy some sun and surf before a gray half-year of...
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Movie Monsters Deconstructed Into Ikea Instruction Manuals
Putting together furniture using Ikea's wordless, line-drawn instruction manuals can be a horror show, which is what it makes it a particularly good format for deconstructing Hollywood's monster squad....
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How To Find Your Next Ice Bucket Challenge
The Ice Bucket Challenge has been a huge boon to the ALS Association, which has raised almost $100 million in the last month to help fight Lou Gehrig's Disease. And no matter how sick you are of people...
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How Republican Is Whole Foods? I Used An App To Find Out
How Republican are your cornflakes? How Democratic your Spaghetti-Os? If these are the sorts of questions that keep you up at night, BuyPartisan is a new app that advertises itself as "like a...
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The Rise And Fall Of The American Food Tower
In the late '80s and 1990s, tall food was practically synonymous with upscale American cuisine. Today, a gleaming skyscraper of sculpted crudité seems as dated as Doc Martens and nü-metal. Why has a...
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Bad Design Is One Of The Top 10 Reasons Apple Rejects Apps
To millions of developers, Apple's App Store review team can seem like an inscrutable shadow watch, where apps are rejected for the most arbitrary reasons. Apple, of course, usually cultivates such...
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Comic Sans On Australian Newspaper's Front Page Sparks Rage
The Sydney Morning Herald kicked off a Twitter tantrum, after the 183-year-old newspaper had the tacky temerity to use Comic Sans on the front page.To be fair, the typeface was used at least...
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Swarovski Barfs Crystals All Over Samsung's Smartwatch
With Apple's iWatch expected to make its debut in the near future, what are companies doing to keep their names in the smartwatch conversation? In the case of Samsung and its upcoming Gear S...
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An Illustrated Guide To The Galaxy Of Women's Shoes
Can't tell the difference between a slingback espadrille wedge and a peep-toe ankle strap platform wedge? The prolific infographic design studio Pop Chart Lab has you covered. The Charted Collection of...
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Draw On The Floor With This Pencil Lamp's Cord
Cords are a necessary evil for even the most elegant lamps, but sometimes they stick out like a sore thumb. Despite this, there are surprisingly few designers who are actually working to find fun ways...
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