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These Nendo-Designed Ice Cream Cakes Are Too Beautiful To Eat
Nendo--the Japanese studio that has redesigned everything from chopsticks to magnetic eyeglass frames--is getting into the ice cream business. The firm has created an adorable little ice cream village,...
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Diana Balmori On Why Every Design Lover Should Visit Kyoto
Welcome to Wanderlust, a new series on Co.Design in which some of our favorite designers share their secret picks and insider tips for the best design cities on the planet. Our first Wanderlust...
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Ideo Releases ChitChat, A New Way To Send Voice Messages On Your iPhone
Between phone calls, text messages, Snapchats, tweets, and Facebook, there's no shortage of ways for people to ping you on your smartphone. Into this cattle car of digital communicators comes design...
View ArticleEsurance Learns An Expensive Lesson On Why Kerning Matters
Auto insurance provider Esurance just learned a painful and expensive lesson that anyone named Clint could have told them for free: kerning is important. In fact, it's the difference between trying to...
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'Horrorstör' Is A Ghost Story Designed Like An Ikea Catalog
The prospect of spending a Saturday at Ikea is so innately disquieting, it's amazing it hasn't become the setting for a horror story before now. Horrorstör is a new horror novel by Grady Helix that...
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The Ousted Co-Creator Of Beats Wants You To Wear These Earbuds Around Your Neck
The history of the Beats by Dre brand is extremely dicey: it took a copious amount of backstabbing to become the Apple-owned juggernaut it is today. Whether backstabber or backstabbee, one of the...
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Designing A Better Charity Donation Form
Promotional stunts like the Ice Bucket Challenge do a lot to get people interested in charities, but if poorly-designed donation sites get in the way of converting that goodwill into money, what's the...
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Denmark Designs A Better French Press
Muuto's latest product has a decidedly Nordic take on the old-fashioned French coffee press. That might seem like cultural sacrilege, but considering the fact that it was actually the Italians who...
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After 25 Years, Dieter Rams's Classic Side Table Is Back In Production
One of Dieter Rams's most legendary objects is back from the interior design grave. British furniture design company Vitsœ has re-released the iconic 621 Side Table after 25 years out of circulation....
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What God Will Kill You For, Visualized
Many of us are well-aware that Yahweh wasn't exactly the most patient of gods. Forget fire and brimstone, Yahweh was the kind of deity who'd see you stoned to death just for working on a Sunday.In this...
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Southwest Airlines Unveils A New Logo
Founded in 1971, Southwest Airlines' first logo was a friendly heart emblazoned in a set of pilot wings, representing the airline's home airport of Dallas Love Field. But in 1998, Southwest replaced...
View ArticleHow Flat Design Made The Apple Watch Possible
After years of speculation, the Apple Watch is finally here. And though it runs iOS, it has its own user interface, with a home screen bursting with tiny little bubbles, each one of which represents an...
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What Top Designers Think Of Apple's New Smartwatch
Today, Apple unveiled three new products: the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and the Apple Watch, Cupertino's first (and long rumored) foray into the wearables category. We asked three top industrial...
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Massimo Vignelli's NYC Subway Manual Is Coming Back In Print
When Massimo Vignelli redesigned the New York City subway map in 1970, he also put together a lengthy MTA Graphics Standards Manual. Half design porn, half design Bible, this manual has been relatively...
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What The Font? Analyzing The New Apple Watch Typeface
More on Apple: -How The Apple Watch's UI Will Work -How Flat Design Made The Apple Watch Possible -What Top Designers Think Of Apple's New Smartwatch -4 Key Design Insights From The Apple Watch -The...
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Maaike Evers On Why Amsterdam Is The Best Design City In The World
Welcome to Wanderlust, a weekly series on Co. Design where some of our favorite designers share their secret picks and insider tips for the best design cities on the planet. Today, Maiike Evers of San...
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6 Photos That Capture The Personalities Of Exotic Birds
Just like wallpaper, the plumage of parrots can be exotic or drab, eye-catching or camouflaging, colorful or practically monochrome. In Claire Rosen's photo essay, Birds of a Feather, parrots are...
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Why Use Google Maps When You Can Get GPS Directions On The Death Star Instead?
Mapbox Studio is a toolkit that allows apps and websites to serve up their own custom-designed maps to users. Companies like Square, Pinterest, Foursquare, and Evernote con provide custom-skinned...
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A Guide To Who Hates Whom In The Middle East
The relationships between all the players in the Middle East can seem impossible to unknot: a mass of countries, states, and political groups that are hopelessly intertwined. Thanks to David McCandless...
View ArticlePopKey, A GIF-Only Keyboard For iOS 8
One of the more substantial additions to Apple's iOS 8 software might be third-party keyboards, which allows users to install packages (like Swype) that allow them to enter text in different ways than...
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