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This Comic Sans Typewriter Is Every Type Lover's Worst Nightmare
For some people, a letter, manuscript, or note typed out on a typewriter is imbued with a certain romance and integrity. But even die-hard typewriter fetishists like Tom Hanks might hurl their...
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Karim Rashid On Milan's Best Design Secrets
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, industrial designer...
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Write Stories On Extinct Galactic Civilizations In New Game
Write what you know. Every young writer has heard that advice. But writing what you know is boring. Wouldn't you rather write about space travel and galactic civilizations gone extinct? Well, now you...
View ArticleThe Berlin Wall Is Going Back Up
When the Berlin Wall was built back in 1961, it literally went up overnight. Constructed first out of just barbed wire, then supplemented with concrete walls, landmines, and watch towers, the mauer...
View ArticleWill.i.am Unveils Yet Another Stupid Smartwatch
Black Eyed Peas rapper Will.i.am has just announced his first wearable. Called the PULS, it's a bangle-sized entombment of bad design thinking so laughably absurd it sounds like a Funny or Die sketch....
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Peek Inside The Fossil-Filled Bowels Of The American Natural History Museum
Last week, a group of around 30 attendees of Fast Company's Innovation By Design Conference descended upon New York's American Natural History Museum to get a special backstage tour. Our photographers...
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This Nightlight Costs $100, And It's Worth Every Penny
Asked about the future of the connected home last week, Nest founder Tony Fadell said it wouldn't be a single integrated Jetsons-like experience authored by Google or Apple. Instead, it would be made...
View ArticleRubber Bands Get A Makeover
Why do rubber bands have to be so round? No reason at all.Japanese jack-of-all-trades design house Nendo has created a series of reimagined stationery items that include paper clips that come in a long...
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The Cool Accidental Typography Of Satellite Imagery
Most typefaces are purposefully designed. Not this one. Now on Kickstarter, Aerial Bold is a typeface of topography, made up entirely of the accidental letters found in satellite images: buildings,...
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Pentagram's Michael Bierut Rebrands The MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab moves fast. From shapeshifting displays to technology that could 3-D print Eames chairs and self-lacing McFlys, the Media Lab reinvents the way we think about the future every single...
View ArticleIsaac Asimov's Advice To Creatives? Waste Other People's Time And Money
With tens of thousands of books, short stories, articles, and reviews to his credit, science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov may have been one of the most prolific creatives of the 20th century. But what...
View ArticleIkea Recreates "The Shining" In New TV Ad
To celebrate Halloween, Ikea's Singapore branch has used the dark corridors of the furniture superstore to seamlessly recreate the famous hallway scene from Stanley Kubrick's horror movie masterpiece,...
View ArticleThe Electric Tea Kettle Gets A Makeover
Electric tea kettles, and tea kettles in general, are wasteful. Since most people thoughtlessly fill the kettle up to the top, even if they only need a single cup, energy is spent heating unused water....
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13 Photos That Prove Even Old Dogs Are Cute
Everyone loves a puppy, but Canadian photographer Pete Thorne doesn't have time for them. As part of his Old Faithful series, Thorne exclusively photographs the oldest, grayest dogs he can find. His...
View ArticleThe First Real Photoshop Alternative For iPad Is Here
For years, Pixelmator has been the go-to Photoshop alternative on the Mac for people who want an app with all the polish of an Adobe product, without actually letting Adobe sink their claws into them....
View ArticleI Can't Believe This Trippy Hologram Statue Isn't CGI
You see this weird revolving object? It looks like a liquid-metal Terminator bugging out on an acid trip. Your first instinct was probably to think it was CGI. But no, this is a real object.It's called...
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Can A Bike Be Both Cheap And Beautiful?
You'd be hard pressed to find a more bike crazy country than the Netherlands. Not only are bicycle paths ubiquitous, but there's more than one bicycle for every single person in the country.And while...
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Fashion Guru Simon Collins On Why Beijing Is The World's Most Exciting Design...
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, Simon Collins, Dean...
View ArticleThese Insane Kinetic Sculptures Look Like "Inception" Brought To Life
Trained as a computer engineer in Caracas, Elias Crispin is a Venezuelan-born, Paris-based artist who specializes in making kinetic installations, with geometry that changes over time. Any one of his...
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The Dollar Is Too Nationalistic. Here's What It Should Look Like Instead
As part of his thesis as a student at the Basel School of Design in Switzerland, Travis Purrington wondered what the dollar would look like with a more modern look. His concept jettisons America's...
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