Technicolor Type Calendar Turns Every Month Into A Kaleidoscope
Word art may be among the most reviled of arts, but the MWM 2015 calendar by graphic designer Matt W. Moore is enough to justify the form. It's a wall calendar that uses technicolor typography to make...
View ArticleJordan's Ancient Wonders Look Even Better Tiny [Video]
Created by German film production company Spoonfilm, Jolly Jordan is a beautiful 4-minute film that takes viewers on a journey to an adorably miniature version of the Middle Eastern country, where the...
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10 Movie Posters Imagine The Sequels Hollywood Never Made
"Applied to anything in life, "What If?" is a powerful, festering question," says Jon Gibson, co-owner of Los Angeles iam8bit art gallery. "What if China's economy collapses? What if JFK didn't refuse...
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Ikea's Quest To Design The Perfect All-Purpose Chair
There is an invisible line between the chair suitable for public seating and the one suitable for putting in your home. An aluminum folding chair might look perfectly fine at a business conference, but...
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How The Close Button Was Born
If you were to name a single button you interact with most often, it would probably be the close button, whether you're on Windows, Linux, or Mac. The close button lets you exit a program or window...
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5 Ways The Amazon Echo Could Become An Essential Part Of Your Life
Last week, Amazon unveiled the Echo, a strange robot speaker that works something like Siri in a can. You can tell it to play music, set alarms, look up answers to questions, and add things to your...
View ArticleThis iPhone Game Is The Angry Birds Of Interstellar Suicide
If you think about it, the goal of every video game, from Super Mario to Tetris, is to stay alive. Well, every game except one. Coming soon to iOS, Sunburn is the Angry Birds of interstellar suicide,...
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9 GIFs That Explain Responsive Design Brilliantly
What is responsive design? Most people vaguely understand that it refers to websites that work just as well on desktops as they do on smartphones, but there's a lot more to it than that, leading to...
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How To Use Japanese Emoticons: A Play In 3 Parts
ヽ༼ ʘ̚ل͜ʘ̚༼◕_◕༽◉_◔ ༽ﾉ — We have a question. What's a donger?c༼ "͡° ▃ °͡ "༽ᕤ — I LOVE MY DONGER!ლ(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ლ) — Whoa whoa WHOA. Hold on there, potty mouth. This is a family publication.༼ つ ▀̿_▀̿ ༽つ —...
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Pantone's iOS Keyboard Is Here. It Is Colorful
When Pantone announced it was teaming up with Brightkey to release its own custom iPhone keyboard, I got excited. Brightkey is a simple third-party keyboard for iOS 8 that has some cool features—you...
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By Turning Minutes Into Money, This Chrome Extension Helps You Save
All of us have spent money we shouldn't have on a purchase. Whether as the result of calculation or whim, we've all looked at something we wanted, done some dodgy mental math, and decided it is somehow...
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Monument Valley's New Levels Would Give Even M.C. Escher A Hard Time
A mobile game that debuted earlier this year (and was a finalist in Fast Company's 2014 Innovation By Design Awards), Monument Valley has always aspired to be a living M.C. Escher painting. What makes...
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5 "Rejected" Nelson Mandela Memorials That Make More Sense Than A Huge Pair...
Last week, Cape Town unveiled a new sculptural tribute designed by Michael Elvion called 'Perceiving Freedom,' honoring the life and work of Nelson Mandela. What was it, you ask? An statue symbolizing...
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Sneaker Guru D'Wayne Edwards On What Rome Could Teach Designers About Solving...
courtesy D'Wayne EdwardsWelcome to Wanderlust, a 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,...
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A Typeface For Dyslexics? Don't Buy Into The Hype
After being featured at the Istanbul Design Biennial, Dyslexie, a typeface designed with dyslexics in mind, is getting a lot of press. It trended on Facebook earlier this week and has been covered by...
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This Tiny Cardboard Battery Is Like A Vitamin For Your Smartphone
Having trouble keeping your smartphone charged throughout the day? Designer Tsung Chih-Hsien has created a Red Dot Design Award-winning concept for a tiny cardboard capsule that could juice up your...
View Article4 Things Healthcare.Gov 2.0 Gets Right (And 5 Things It Still Gets Wrong)
Launched last year to near universal jeering, the first iteration of Healthcare.gov //was the very definition of a design crime. Democrats and Republicans alike pounced upon the site's disastrous...
View ArticleBeautiful New App Shows Kids How People Around The World Live
When Tinybop founder Raul Gutierrez was a kid, he used to press his ear to the walls of his house, listening to the mysterious sound of the pipes creaking behind the drywall and imagining the worlds...
View ArticleThis Wonderful Web Toy Turns Your Browser Into Magic Liquid
If you've ever spent a few minutes tracing your fingers through soapy water just to watch the iridescence swirl, this web toy is for you.Developed by George Kearney, it's a fluid dynamics simulator...
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How Pelican Books Is Reimagining The Cover In The Age Of E-Books
The covers of our favorite books are doors that lead into their internal literary worlds, and that's enough to make their designs important: a book's cover is the focus point for our experience with...
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