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The Exclusive Inside Story Behind Times New Ramen, 2015's Best New Font
Times New Ramen is a new font by the perpetually tongue-in-cheek designer Ryder Ripps, creative director of the progressive brand marketing agency OKFocus and New York Times profiled net artist: a...
View ArticleBeautiful App Makes Cartoons Out Of Classical Music
Unless you're a musician—and sometimes, not even then—you're probably not very comfortable with reading musical notation. Sure, we might be taught in grade school music class. We might be able to plod...
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Flowchart: How To Choose A Typeface
Once you really understand them, typefaces can be powerful. A properly chosen font can either give your words authority, or totally undermine them. Even a typeface as openly reviled as Comic Sans,...
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How Cars Are Made, In 20 GIFs
Think of an automobile factory. It's a cacophony of whirring robots, massive clunking steel stampers, spark-spitting welders, and buzzing drills. But separate all the steps that go into turning a lump...
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Artist Invents A Machine To Create Life From Scratch
At the University of Michigan, conceptual artist Adam W. Brown has assembled an installation of glass beakers, hot plates, and rubber tubes. It doesn't seem terribly imposing—it has the look of random...
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The Urn, Reimagined As A Dildo Full Of Your Dead Spouse's Ashes
Cremation urns usually only hold the ashes of a spouse. With his new work 21 Grams, Dutch designer Mark Sturkenboom reimagines the urn as an interactive memory box for widows. It doesn't just hold the...
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5 Things App Designers Could Learn From Walt Disney
Among animation and film buffs, Walt Disney's 12 Principles of Animation is rightly revered, but is that where their usefulness ends? Rebecca Ussai doesn't think so. With the help of ex-Disney animator...
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To Help Destigmatize HIV Victims, This Magazine Was Printed With Infected Blood
The latest cover of Vangardist Magazine, a progressive men's publication, is bound to stand out at newsstands. "This Magazine Has Been Printed With The Blood of HIV+ People," it reads, and it's true....
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7 Designs By Nendo That Will Make You Hate Your Front Door
Japanese design house Nendo has been busy experimenting with front doors. But these aren't normal doors. To commemorate the 70th anniversary of Abe Kogyo, a fabled manufacturer of wooden doors for...
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Visualized: The Complete Hero Roster Of The Mighty Avengers
Avengers: Age of Ultron has arrived alas, adding three new superheroes—Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Vision—to the core team of Earthy's Mightiest Heroes: Captain America, Hulk, Hawkeye, Black Widow,...
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7 Fan-Made Movie Posters That Are Better Than The Originals
Everyone loves fan movie posters. They're a great way for fans to lick their graphic design chops while paying tribute to a much beloved film. They're big business too, with companies like Mondo raking...
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This Table Was Inspired By Data Viz's Most Hated Chart
Compared to flashier visualization methods, the pie chart is hated by data viz designers, but home decorators might be more forgiving: the Times 4 Coffee Table by Goncalo Campos uses a quartered pie...
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Getting Vaccinated Will Soon Be As Easy As Putting On A Band-Aid
Most people hate getting jabbed with even a single needle, but Georgia Tech's Mark Prausnitz thinks the future of vaccination is to jab people with a hundred needles at once. But it's not as terrifying...
View ArticleWhy Facebook's Former Design Chief Is Joining A Finance Startup
Last week, investment management startup Wealthfront announced that former Facebook design director Kate Aronowitz would be joining the company as their new vice president of design. Formed in 2008 as...
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Internet Cool Kid Ryder Ripps Explains Why You Can't Let Clients Boss You Around
Ryder Ripps is an artist, programmer, and creative director who the New York Times once called "the consummate Internet cool kid, as fluent in HTML and JavaScript as in the language of conceptual...
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Amazon's Echo Takes A Step Closer To Becoming The Heart Of The Smart Home
When Amazon first announced the Echo—an always-on speaker slash Siri-in-a-can tied into the company's services—we were bullish about it. Although the Echo couldn't do much at release, we saw it as a...
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What If Superheroes Replaced Politicians On The World's Currency?
In the world of comics, it's not unusual for superheroes and supervillains to hold political power. The Fantastic Four's nemesis Dr. Doom is the king of Latveria, while Captain America has been elected...
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Would You Don These Sci-Fi Skin Suits If They Could Improve Your Health?
What if you could change your body just as easily as you changed your clothes? The body suits of textile artist Chloe Cooper imagines a future of fashion in which people don't just buy clothes to...
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This Lamp Only Turns On When You Use It To Charge Your Phone
Wireless charging is officially starting to take off. With the new Apple Watch, the world's biggest gadget maker supports the technology; so does Ikea, which has released a furniture line that also...
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A $2.5 Billion Plan To Transport Penn Station Back In Time
Few would argue that Manhattan's Penn Station is anything but a big fat architectural goiter. Yet it wasn't always that way: The old Penn Station, demolished in the 1960s, was one of New York's crown...
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