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How Globalization Has Tattooed The Skin Of Buildings Around The World
If architecture is all about loving the bodies of the buildings that surround us, photographer Roland Fischer is all about the skin. As part of his ongoing series, Facades, Fischer travels the world,...
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Google's Guide To Designing With Empathy
According to the World Health Organization, more than 1 billion people worldwide have a disability. To Astrid Weber and Jen Devins, Google's resident accessibility experts, that stat should be stamped...
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Why Can't The U.S. Government's Graphic Design Be This Beautiful?
How do you make infrastructure policy seem revolutionary? You make the official guidelines look like the old flower-power posters, in the hopes of dredging up the same spirit of change that defined the...
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What If "Star Wars" Pilots Fought Battles Over Earth?
A Star Destroyer crashes in Paris, careening to a halt just meters from the base of the Eiffel Tower. An X-Wing sinks beneath the waters of a Venetian canal, like Luke's spaceship sinking beneath...
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This Undulating Cabinet Is Like Joy Division's Album Cover Come To Life
If you ever wanted to own a cabinet that channels the cover art of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, here's your chance: the Wave Cabinet, a sideboard created by New York artist and designer Sebastian...
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27 Apps Designers Can't Live Without
Maybe it's just Gmail, or maybe it's something more esoteric like Processing, but there are certain apps we rely on so much that if they suddenly went missing, we'd have a hard time getting by. That's...
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Visualizing The Color Palettes Of The Web's Most Beautiful Websites
What do the best-looking sites on the Internet use for color palettes? A surprising number of pastels with the occasional sprinkling of earthen tones, at least looking at this infographic from...
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These Gorgeous Necklaces Grow Like Flowers
Why design jewelry when you can grow it? Enter Floraform, a new line of jewelry that uses advanced computer algorithms to organically "grow" necklace, ring, and bracelet designs which were inspired by...
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Japanese Paper-Cutting Is The Future Of Flexible, Bendable Gadgets
Ever wonder why all our gadgets are rigid rectangles? It doesn't have anything to do with the outside of the device, but the inside. Electronics are full of conductive sheets, which are basically...
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2016's Presidential Hopefuls Rebranded As Black Metal Bands
As the primaries fast approach, presidential hopefuls are unveiling their official campaign logos, and let's speak plainly. Whether the logo is an "H" that functions as a sort of political Rorschach...
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Why We Shouldn't Fall In Love With Our iPhones
These days, many of us (and even maybe most of us) have a more intimate relationship with our smartphones than we do to our friends, our family, even our partners. We spend our waking hours glued to...
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How To Turn Off Gmail's Sucky Hangouts And Get The Old Chat
After two years of gently suggesting that users switch from the classic Gchat UI to the newer Hangouts platform, Google surprised Gmail users around the world this week by automatically switching...
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How Many Americans Police Kill Every Year
How many people do American police kill every year? It's a question that should have a concrete answer, yet no one really knows: no government agency transparently and accurately reports the total...
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Spoiler Alert! 9 Movie Posters That Spoil The Endings Of Hollywood Blockbusters
In our spoiler-obsessed culture, giving away the end of a movie is viewed as rude at best...and a crime worthy of being drawn-and-quartered at worst. Warsaw-based designer Dawid FrÄ…tczak just doesn't...
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Detroit Wants To Arrest Shepard Fairey
Better send Robocop. Shepard Fairey, the world famous street and mural artist, is a wanted man in Detroit.A warrant for Fairey's arrest was filed in Michigan's 36th District Court, in connection with...
View ArticleDirector John Waters On How To Live A Creative, Disruptive Life
With his trademark pencil mustache, Pink Flamingoes and Hairspray director John Waters took the podium at the Rhode Island School of Design earlier this month to deliver the commencement address. After...
View ArticleWatch This Cocktail Cabinet Spin Open Like A Magic Trick
Most cabinets just open or close. Not the Cubrick. Instead, it pirouettes open, allowing you to access its contents from any side (and elegantly hiding the contents when it's not in use). It saves...
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Comically Explained: The 6 Kinds Of Corporate Org Charts
Can't figure out your company's org chart? You're not alone: no one can, and attempting to do so is just wishful thinking. To translate what it means, the Doghouse Diaries has come up with a handy...
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Designing The Perfect Pair Of Scissors
Anyone who has ever wrapped a Christmas present has dealt with the maddening problem of trying to cut a long sheet of paper in a perfectly straight line. Even if you've got a steady hand, you'll...
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Love MS Paint? Here's VR Paint
Microsoft Research Labs, the creators of real-life holodecks and mind-reading stylii alike, have just unveiled their latest augmented reality project, dubbed Semantic Paint. Harnessing the scanning...
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