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3-D Printed Cookie Cutters Shaped Like Your Favorite Typefaces
Christmas trees, gingerbread men, and snowflakes: this time of year, cookie cutters come in all shapes and sizes. And now, there are even cookie cutters for type nerds. Behold!: Cookie cutters that...
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Wave To An Astronaut With This Stellar Visualization Tool
On Sunday, November 23, Italy's first female astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti, was launched into space to serve aboard the International Space Station. Thanks to this charming interactive...
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How Top Designers Tell Clients That Their Taste Sucks
Sometimes, you have to agree to disagree. But what do you do with clients who just fundamentally have terrible taste in design? They're paying the bills, creating a problem that almost every designer...
View ArticleCreate Animated GIFs About Typefaces With This Cute iPhone App
The world is full of great typefaces. Now available for iPhone and iPad, Fontspiration is a cool new app for iOS that makes it a little easier to appreciate them on the go.Built by Extensis, a company...
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The History Of Web Design Explained In 9 GIFs
Froont, a San Francisco company that makes tools for web designers, has created nine GIFs that show just how far web design has come in the past 25 years. If you've ever wondered why CSS is important,...
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Inside China's Wild World Of App Design
Most of us never think about the apps people use on the other side of the planet, but Dan Rover does. The Vermont native recently moved to Guangzhou, China, after getting hired as a product manager by...
View ArticleWatch: 30 Years Of Great Design From The Criterion Collection In Under 2 Minutes
When it comes to home video, no one pays more attention to minute details than The Criterion Collection, an American video-distribution company that specializes in preserving and distributing important...
View ArticleThese Whimsical Gadgets Predict The Next 10 Minutes Of Weather
Berg was a revolutionary British design consultancy that specialized in designing charming, single-serving gadgets that visualized Internet data that would otherwise feel impersonal: for example, the...
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The Urban Dictionary Of Design Slang
Joining the ranks of any profession is the same as committing yourself to learning an entirely new language, most of which is frankly gibberish. (TPS reports, anyone?) Design is no exception. So we...
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Hallmark Apologizes For Selling Hanukkah Paper Covered In Swastikas
Hallmark has pulled Hanukkah wrapping paper from shelves after someone complained it was covered in swastikas. According to Hallmark, the wrapping paper was pulled from store shelves after the company...
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20 Ways To Describe Pantone's Color Of The Year
Every year since 1990, the Pantone Color Institute has nominated a Color of the Year, which supposedly predicts the single hue that the design world will go nuts about for the next 12 months. Last...
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Why Do Designers Think No One Knows How To Scroll?
Adopting the lingo of the old newspaper days, we say that something is 'above the fold' in the digital age if you can see it when a webpage loads without scrolling. Conventional wisdom in web design...
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Why Comic Sans Works On The "I Can't Breathe" Shirts
On Saturday night, Chicago Bulls star player Derrick Rose wore a black T-shirt adorned with the phrase "I Can't Breathe" during warm-ups as a way of showing solidarity with the family of Eric Garner, a...
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This Site Visualizes Your Death
Ever wonder how you fit into the teeming swarm of humanity, statistically? Now in beta, Population.io is a great new site designed by Benedikt Groß (previously featured on Co.Design for his typeface...
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Harry Potter Series Reimagined As Glow-In-The-Dark Pop-Up Books
At this point, the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling are widely accepted to be children's classics, but you can't exactly say the same for the books' physical designs. The covers are serviceable, but...
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Is This Psychedelic iOS Keyboard The Craziest UI In Design History?
On December 16, 1997, an episode of the popular animated series Pokemonaired in Japan, during which the lovable electric gopher Pikachu spent a few minutes frenetically blasting rainbow-hued missiles...
View ArticleFall Through A Wormhole Into This Stunning Wikipedia Galaxy
There are a 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone, and the Milky Way is relatively small on the cosmic scale. Luckily, there aren't nearly as many Wikipedia articles: with only 4,668,117...
View ArticleMoo Is Now Selling Letterpress Business Cards That Aren't Really Letterpress
I've got to be honest. I've never really liked Moo business cards, even after they've been foisted upon me by half a dozen companies. Moo is a Rhode Island-based company that sells custom-printed...
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Nike Reveals Recovered Emails, Texts In Lawsuit Against Former Designers
The lawsuit between Nike and three designers—Marc Dolce, Mark Miner, and Denis Dekovic, who turned in their swoosh to start a hip new design studio for rival Adidas—is starting to heat up. After filing...
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Cyclops Stools That Look Like Adorable Aliens From Another World
Crouched like one of the otherworldly bathhouse denizens from Miyazaki's Spirited Away, there's so much to love these weird yet adorable stools. Designed as the debut product of design house Phillip...
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