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10 Classic Porn Movies Get A Tasteful Redesign
Adult videos often get the short end of the stick in the graphic design department. Consequently, the covers of even classic porn movies are often as lurid as they are crude: at best, a garish...
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Retro Lego Gadgets Blown Up Into Real, Working Computers
One of the coolest things about the old Lego from the '70s and '80s were the weird, wonderful computer bricks they shipped with. These fanciful blocks took their style from the analog computers of the...
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Designing A Less Deadly Gas Can
In the past 15 years, gas cans have been responsible for nearly a dozen deaths and 1,200 injuries. A small spark or flame shoots up the nozzle, and boom. Game over. The latest concept from Somerville,...
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Albert Einstein's Handwriting Is Now A Font
E=MC^2. It's not just a fascinating equation, it was written in a fascinating hand. The handwriting of Albert Einstein, the legendary German theoretical physicist, was unique: a wondrous calligraphy...
View ArticleThis Dystopian Diorama Is "1984" Meets The Internet Of Things
When George Orwell wrote 1984, surveillance technology was strictly analog. What would 1984 look like if it was written in the world of the Internet of things?That's the question posed by the Nemesis...
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Two Typefaces, Five Days: Inside A Fabulously Nerdy Type Marathon
Monotype, one of the world's largest type foundries, is used to churning out new fonts. Most of them take weeks, months, and even years to develop, but over the course of the past week, Monotype has...
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It's Time To Take Flickr Seriously Again
Yesterday, Yahoo pushed out the biggest update to Flickr, maybe ever. An update two years in the making, Flickr 4.0 is a total redesign on every platform that uses magical backend algorithms and a...
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This Museum Explores The History Of Man And Manure
You can learn a lot from shit. That, at least, is the hope of Italy's newly opened Museo della Merda, or in English, the Museum of Shit.Located in the northern Italian town of Castelbosco, the Museum...
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Game Of Thrones Made Easy, With Google Maps
Fantasy novelists like Game of Thrones scribe George R.R. Martin spend thousands of pages building intricately detailed worlds, but geographically, these worlds can be hard to understand. Making...
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London: The Next Great Tech And Design City?
Forget Silicon Valley and New York. If you care about technology and design, look across the pond to London, says New York's Museum of Modern Art. The MoMA Store is releasing the London Tech City...
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Nuimo: A Universal Dial For The Internet Of Things
Right now, the smartphone is the universal remote to the Internet of things. Whether you're flicking on your Philips Hue smartlights, queuing up a Spotify playlist on your stereo, or setting the...
View ArticleBjarke Ingels Redesigns His Old High School
Located just north of Copenhagen, the Gammel Hellerup High School has one of the coolest campuses in the world. It's all thanks to the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the architecture firm that last year...
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Artefact Designs A Backpack To Save Cyclists' Lives
The offices of Seattle-based design consultancy Artefact is located near a corner on Second Avenue where two white bicycles are perpetually chained. The white bicycles each denote a death: on this...
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Could Slimmer Streets Help Solve San Francisco's Housing Crisis?
San Francisco's housing crisis is legendary. The median housing price in San Francisco is now $1.1 million, more than the California and U.S. median by $700,000 and $900,000, respectively. The average...
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Crazy Way To Paint Patterns On 3-D Objects Is Like A Cartoon Come To Life
In old Warner Bros. cartoons, one common gag is a single can of paint that contains an elaborate pattern, like plaid, which can be applied to a surface with a single brush stroke. The reason it's funny...
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MVRDV's Seoul Skygarden Is Like The High Line On Steroids
Move over, High Line: Rotterdam-based design firm MVRDV has developed a winning concept for a skygarden in Seoul that might just become the new gold standard for public parks that repurpose old...
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This Mechanical Lung Blows
To help them better understand their own breathing patterns, third-year Interaction Design Students at the ArtEZ Academy of the Arts Amy Whittle and Willem Kempers created Lung, a strange machine that...
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MIT Made A Game To Figure Out How Our Brains Work In The Dark
Famous Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo is so good at what he does, he can score a goal even when he is plunged into darkness. What makes that possible? Advanced calculations by our subconscious...
View ArticleYour iPhone's Keyboard Just Became The Ultimate Calendar App
Sunrise is a cross-platform calendar app for Mac, iOS, Android, and the web that consistently gets rave reviews. On the iOS side of things, though, the latest update to the app is so brilliant, you...
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Errol Morris: How Typography Shapes Our Perception Of Truth
In 2013, acclaimed filmmaker and author Errol Morris ran a bold experiment. With the collusion of the New York Times, he asked 45,000 readers to take an online test. The test allegedly measured whether...
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