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An Ode To Banner Ads, Every Junior Designer's Worst Nightmare
In 1994, five designers were assigned the ignominious task of designing the world's first banner ad, a design journey detailed over at Fast Company here. 20 years later, they're not an experiment for...
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This London Bar's Cocktail Menu Is A Gorgeous Pop-Up Book
A good cocktail isn't just about the taste, or the alcohol content. It's the peacock tail of drinks: it's all about the look and the flair. That's why a description or even a picture can't do a...
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The Ditto Might Just Be The Most Meta Wearable Yet
How meta are wearables now? This meta. Meet the Ditto, a new gadget from Simple Matters that is a tie-clip sized vibrator that sits outside of your smartphone, buzzing in situations where you couldn't...
View ArticleThese Video-Game Consoles Were Designed To Be Excruciatingly Slow
Video games have been primarily about fast, frenetic action, ever since Nintendo released the original NES in the U.S., filling kids' brains with games like Mega Man and Contra. But why shouldn't video...
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The Guardian Rolls Out A Redesign, With Input From Thousands Of Readers
It seems like all the major magazines and newspapers are redesigning their websites lately. First it was The New York Times, then the New Yorker. Now the Guardian is getting in on the action with a...
View ArticleWhat The Great Pyramid Looked Like More Than 4,000 Years Ago
Go to the pyramids at Giza today, and you'll see pollution blackened steppes surrounded by smog and sand. Some 4,000 years ago, the pyramids looked much nicer: They were covered in polished limestone,...
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Design Porn For Air Traffic Controllers
There are few areas of design so important to get right as that of the airport runway. They host millions of flyers every year, but most of us never get a really good view of the system set up to make...
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Cool, Weird Halloween Costumes You Can Pull Out Of A Printer
Need a last-minute Halloween costume? Print yourself out one of these beautiful papercraft masks.Designed by Steven Wintercroft, a mask maker who specializes in selling his designs online, these masks...
View ArticlePsychedelic Ant Farms Designed To Raise Money For Charity
Although they used to be filled with soil or sawdust, newer ant farms use an edible semi-transparent gel, which serves as both nutrition and medium of travel for the ants trapped inside. Most of that...
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How To Design A Creative Halloween Costume At The Last Minute
It's Halloween. All the good costumes are sold out. You might think it's too late to make yourself a great Halloween costume from scratch, but think again. Multidisciplinary designer, educator, and...
View ArticleWhat Futurists Think Of HP's Bold And Weird New PC
This week, HP announced the Sprout, its bold attempt to reinvent what it means to work on the PC. Forget a mouse and keyboard. You control the Sprout by sliding your hands across an illuminated...
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The Private Yacht Of The Future Will Cost $500 Million
It looks like concept art for a sailboat designed to slide over the waves of an alien ocean, but this star-shaped yacht wasn't designed to go to Solaris.Conceived by Russian designer Igor Lobanov,...
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The Evolution Of Violin Design: How Stradivarius Won The PR War
To talk about a Stradivarius is to talk about the highest standard of craftsmanship an object can attain. Never mind the fact that studies have shown that many professional violinists can't tell a...
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Letterpress Printers Are Running Out Of @ Symbols And Hashtags
Before the Internet, the @ and # symbols were relatively obscure. Unless you were an accountant or a bookkeeper, you simply never used them. On the typewriter, they were largely ignored, and in a...
View ArticleA Time Machine For Smells
Smells are deeply evocative. They can conjure up memories that are years or even decades old. In this spirit, one recent design school graduate is attempting to harness the power of scent to create a...
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Stefan Sagmeister Reveals Vienna's 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. We asked New York-based...
View ArticleWhy Newscasters Wear Purple On Election Day
It's Election Day. You're a professional newscaster, a person whose job is to be as broadly palatable to as many viewers as possible. The entire political future of the country is up in the air, and...
View ArticleThe Complexity Of Famous Writers' Prose, Visualized
A Chromapoem is a new type of visualization by New Orleans-based designer Lola Migas that automatically translates text into beautiful radial graphs that show just how complex a snippet of prose is.In...
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These Jeans Come In 400 Sizes
Buying a pair of jeans as a woman can be maddening. Don't believe me? Look at this sizing chart. If I were to try to buy my quite normally shaped wife a pair of jeans using this chart, I'd have to...
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Photos Bring Creepy Renaissance Paintings To Life
The work of legendary Renaissance painter Florentine Agnolo di Cosimo, better known as Bronzino, is remarkable for the juxtaposition between the painter's realistic attention to detail and his choice...
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