How Food Styling Is Done
Although food styling has a reputation of exploiting appetites with visual trickery, the truth is that it's actually more honest than you think. While shady techniques such as using mashed potatoes in...
View ArticleFinally! A Video Game About Building Ikea Furniture!
Is building Ikea furniture your idea of a good time? Well, hold onto your Napoleon hat, because there's now a game for Mac and Windows that will allow you and up to three other players to simulate the...
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If Ikea Made Cardboard Furniture, It Would Look Like This
If Ikea were going to sell you cardboard furniture, instead of just furniture that feels like it's made of cardboard, this is probably what their catalog would look like.Cardboard furniture is, of...
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Leatherman's New Wearable Multitool Is TSA-Approved
Since 1983, Leatherman has made a mint selling men increasingly elaborate multitools, under the rather fanciful notion that they will someday be in a position where instantaneous access to, say, a torx...
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A Secret Design Studio Hides Inside This 100-Year-Old Dutch Tower
Located in Amsterdam's Dam Square, the De Bijenkorf department store was first built in 1909 as a gorgeously cresselated neo-gothic structure pierced by a distinctive central turret. Since it was...
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How Nike Protects Air Jordans From Counterfeiters
Over at the sneaker-crazy Sole Collector, there's a great round-up of some of the hidden design details found on various Air Jordan releases. From the 14 Jumpmen symbols hidden all over 1999's Air...
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Do We Need Stricter Design Protection Laws?
Is there anything wrong with knocking-off a 50-year-old design? Tony Ash, managing director of Vitra, thinks so. Ash has written an opinion piece over at Dezeen, arguing for stricter design protection...
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7 Scrumptious Hors D'oeuvres That Are Really Edible Infographics
Data Cuisine is an on-again/off-again visualization culinary jam by cultural curator Susanne Jaschko and data viz extraordinaire Moritz Stefaner. The idea isn't just to visualize data out of food—like...
View ArticleHow An Intergalactic "Powers Of 10" Inspired The iPad's Most Beautiful New App
Earth: A Primer is like a geology textbook for the Diamond Age: an iPad app in the style of Neil Ardley and David Macaulay's The Way Things Work that explains and simulates the ways in which lava,...
View ArticleCode And Theory Hires Huge Alum As New Creative Co-Director
Yesterday, the marketing and design firm Code and Theory announced that it had hired John Long, formerly of brand design agency Huge, as their new Group Creative Director.Born in New Jersey, the...
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An Epilepsy Tracker So Beautiful, It Could Be Sold In An Apple Store
Wearables are getting smarter. Once considered little more than glorified pedometers, the wearables coming out of 2015 are going to be considerably more powerful. So powerful, in fact, that they might...
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20 Photos That Examine The Diets Of Soldiers Around The World
Few things are more important to soldiers than their food. Enter K-Rations, a new exhibition by Italian industrial designer Giulio Iacchetti that examines the packaging and contents of field rations...
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From Obama's Campaign Designers, A Card Game To Help Companies Define Their...
Cards Against Humanity—the hilarious party game that plays like profane, multiple choice Mad Libs—has become a smash hit around dining room tables all over the world. Now, the designer behind Cards...
View ArticleEmbroidery Patterns Translated Into Soothing Music
Inside every music box is a steel comb with tuned teeth (or lamellae) that make a single note when plucked. On some music boxes, a rotating cylinder covered in pins plucks the teeth, creating a tune....
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This Photographer's Signature Was Written With The Moon
Although writing your name on the moon is a timeless super-villain plot, writing your name with the moon seems like sheer insanity. But that's just what photographer John Kraus did, using a very...
View ArticleInfographic: How Far Can Light Travel In 45 Minutes?
As far as we know, light is the fastest thing in the universe. From the second it is emitted from the sun, it zips off across the galaxy at an incredible 186,000 miles per second. But even though light...
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A Map Of Every Patent Steve Jobs Touched
People are always trying to put themselves into the head of Apple founder Steve Jobs, to figure out how he thought. Unfortunately, Jobs was pretty inscrutable, but here's one fun way to at least...
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A Periodic Table Of Sexy Talk
First created by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, the Periodic Table of the Elements are ordered by their atomic number. It starts with hydrogen, and then the elements continue to get denser...
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Brutalist Buildings Turned Into Papercraft Models
Thanks, at least in part, to classic films like Get Carter, the 1960s and 1970s British architectural landscape is synonymous with Brutalism. Unfortunately, many classic examples of British Brutalism...
View ArticleWhy Not Mix People Like Paint To Get Them To Collaborate? That's What This...
The painting palette is a wonderful design. An amorphous blob of flat wood, the palette is designed to allow an artist to easily mix paints. A dab here, a dab there, and an entirely new color is formed...
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