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Famous Logos Reinterpreted As Chinese Restaurant Signs
When a logo is well designed, it works like a lightning bolt to the central cortex, sparking a sensation of instant familiarity. But does that lightning bolt still strike when you see a logo in an...
View ArticleMuji's New Air Purifier Is Like A Jet Engine For Your Sinuses
At a glance, Muji's latest product looks like some tech gadget: the minimalist, porcelain-white analog to Apple's Mac Pro or the Amazon Echo, perhaps. It's actually a beautiful air purifier that pulls...
View ArticleTomorrow's Skyscrapers And iPhones Could Be Made Of Super Steel!
When you look at the gadgets that surround you, chances are, they're made of aluminum. There's a reason for that. Steel might be great for everything from skyscrapers to cookware because of its...
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Stunning Video Game Is Like An Ancient Greek Urn Come To Life
In May 1819, John Keats left his job as an assistant surgeon at Guy's Hospital in London to dedicate himself to the full-time task of writing poetry. He composed five poems, of which, "Ode To A Grecian...
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This Chapel Might Be The World's Most Romantic Wedding Destination
The Ribbon Chapel is located in the garden of the Bella Vista Sakaigaham resort in Onomichi, Hiroshima, which overlooks the sea of Japan. Its two intertwined staircases, twisting around one another to...
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Apple Starts Adding Racially Diverse Emoji To The Mac
Emojis just took another big step towards racial inclusivity. Following the Unicode Standard's addition of emoji skintones back in November, MacRumors says that Apple has become the first major tech...
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5 Ways MIT Is Reinventing Your Power Cord
Bending your lamp cord to turn off the light? Pinching your headphone cable to mute your music? A new project out of MIT is looking to change the way you look at cords by giving them superpowers.Called...
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These Moleskine-Like Books Unfold Into Tables And Stools
Every bibliophile's probably made the joke that they had so many books, they could make furniture out of them. Now on Kickstarter, Bookniture makes building furniture out of a book as easy as opening...
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This Line Of Furniture Is An Erector Set For Adults. Literally!
Building Ikea furniture is like playing with an Erector Set that gives you splinters; is missing a random assortment of parts; can break you and your girlfriend up. Building Meccano Home furniture, on...
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How To Redesign An Iconic Typeface For Arabic
Hermann Zapf, the designer behind popular typefaces such as Palatino and Optima, was born in Nuremberg, Germany, almost 100 years ago. The typeface that bears his name, Zapfino, is in many ways his...
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A Designer Table That Embraces Embarrassing Cords
You don't see a lot of extension cords or power strips in furniture ads. But the clutter- and cable-free apartments of the showroom don't exist in the real world. So how's that fancy designer side...
View ArticleFrom A Former NASA Engineer, The Heat Map Microwave
In what could be the best use of heat mapping since Predator, former NASA JPL Engineer Mark Rober has patented the Heat Map Microwave: a microwave that uses an infrared camera and LCD screen to...
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What $120 Billion Worth Of Tax Evasion Looks Like
Last weekend, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released a treasure trove of some 30,000 accounts helds at HSBC's Swiss branches between 2005 and 2007. Totaling assets of almost...
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MIT Invents A Social Network You Can Wear
Fashion has always been a good way to break the ice. Spot someone at a party wearing something you like; go up and compliment them on it. Easy. But a new project called Social Textiles wants to turn...
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Why All Typefaces Are Optical Illusions
Take a CLOSE LOOK at this sentence. The capital letters look like they're the same height, and the the lower case letters look like they're the same height. But zoom in and you'll see that's an optical...
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A Museum Where You Can Go To Drink Beer
Sweden traditionally hasn't been a big destination for beer snobs. If you went to the pub, you'd pretty much be limited in choice by whether or not you wanted a big beer or a small one, according to...
View ArticleThese Tables Can Be Assembled With Magnets, No Tools Needed
Magnets! How do they work? Don't answer that. Like Shaggy 2 Dope, I don't want to talk to a scientist. We all know they're magic.So I'm just going to say it. This line of flatpack end tables by...
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A Nation's Storied Design Heritage, Reduced To A Single Font
What does a country look like as a font? That's an abstract question, but one that Stockholm-based design firm Söderhavet had to try to answer as part of a project to design a comprehensive identity...
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Could Graphic Design Help People Better Relate To Each Other?
We all prioritize different things in our lives. That's what makes us unique, but it can also make us feel as if we're more different from one another than we really are. Why can't you understand that...
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You Can Blame The New "Star Wars" Lightsaber On Jonathan Ive
Back in December, Disney released the trailer for the next film in the Star Wars series, The Force Awakens. Directed by J.J. Abrams, the biggest impression that the trailer made on the Internet was...
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