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This Origami Pot Grows Along With A Plant's Roots
We've seen expandable flower pots before, but nothing this elegant. "Growth" is a pot by London-based design house Studio Ayaskan that unfolds like origami to give the roots within plenty of space to...
View Article24 Hours Of Flights Over London, Visualized Like "Tron"
Every day, thousands of gorgeous light cycles battle in the sky above Heathrow—at least in this video by air traffic-control company NATS, visualizing what 24 hours of flight traffic looks like as it...
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Type God Erik Spiekermann's Biggest Challenge? "Asking For Money"
Whether he's criticizing Apple for its font choices, blaming bad design for getting "an asshole" elected president, or complaining about the fact-checking skills of contemporary design journalists,...
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Boy, The New Roald Dahl Logo Sucks
How do you capture the subversive genius of a beloved children's author in a rebrand? Not like this.Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and James and the Giant Peach, is...
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This Beautiful Lens Lets You Draw With The Sun
Now on Kickstarter, Febo is a new tool that lets you engrave objects by using the sun like a laser. Designed by Rosalia Galeano, Francesca Padoyan, and Paola Papetti, it's a lens that laser focuses the...
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Only The Biggest Ideas Make It Into The World's Tiniest Design Portfolio
When most designers want to make a splash with their portfolio, they go big. U.K.-based freelance designer Michael Lester decided to go small. To promote his work, Lester sent potential employers the...
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Feeling The Heat? This Slick Table Supercharges Your A/C
As the weather heats up, certain furniture falls out of favor: leather couches, polyester seats, steel patio chairs left out too long in the sun. But what if your furniture could keep you cool in the...
View ArticleZaha Hadid's 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium Is Dead
Architect Zaha Hadid's plan for Tokyo's 2020 Olympic Stadium is officially dead.From the beginning, Hadid's proposed design was controversial. The 20-story megastructure, which resembled a futuristic...
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The Rejected Covers Of "Go Set A Watchman"
For a graphic designer, being asked to come up for a cover for Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman (available this week) must have been like walking into a minefield.Not only is the novel a long-delayed...
View ArticleThis Poor Computer Was Designed To Sing '90s Karaoke Forever
Thanks to Google's Neural Nets, we now know what computers dream of when they sleep. Next question: what do they sing when they go out for karaoke? The answer is more horrifying than you could possibly...
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DIY Surgery: The Future Of Medicine?
In 2015, if you need an operation, you go to a hospital. The Open Surgery Machine imagines a future in which getting an appendectomy is as DIY as downloading a template from Thingsverse and firing up...
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Designing A Lego Set For The Internet Of Things
A successful Kickstarter billing itself as "the ultimate Internet Connected Electronics Kit," Sam by Sam Labs aimed to be an electronics kit that made rolling your own devices for the Internet of...
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Cyberwar, Visualized
Ever seen WarGames? Remember at the end of the movie when Matthew Broderick's character has tricked the malfunctioning supercomputer W.O.P.R. to simulate all permutations of global thermonuclear war,...
View ArticleIs The Kinect The Future Of Green Screen?
Although it's much beloved by hackers and artists, the Kinect hasn't really caught on as a tool for photographers and filmmakers. (Or gamers, alas.) That's sort of odd when you think of it, because at...
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The Ultimate Map Of Literature's Great American Road Trips
It's late July, and if you haven't already planned your summer vacation, might we suggest taking a cross-country road-trip? The sort of classic American holiday immortalized in novels ranging from Jack...
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This Fashionable Bracelet Transforms Into A Set Of Bluetooth Headphones
When they're not in or on your ears, headphones are a pain to carry around. Wear a pair of over-the-ear cans around your neck, and you look like a dweeb; stuff a pair of earbuds in your pocket when...
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4 Freaky Plane Designs That Reimagine The Golden Age Of Air Travel
For all their convenience, airplanes are one of the dirtiest modes of transportation out there. A fully loaded A380's CO2 output is equivalent to each passenger driving six cars an equivalent distance....
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Why Google's Deep Dream A.I. Hallucinates In Dog Faces
We've all been getting a kick out of what artists and developers have been doing with Google's Deep Dream, the neural net powered hallucination AI. Now you can play with it for yourself, thanks to the...
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Do You Code? You Should Try This Font
Coders look for different things in a typeface than normal people do. While most of us choose a font for the character it imparts to our words (Baskerville for authority, Comic Sans for playfulness,...
View ArticleThe Magical Beauty Of Programmable Materials
Ikea furniture that assembles itself when you add water.3-D printed, self-lacing McFlys. Modular, single-piece robots that fold like proteins The design possibilities of programmable materials seem...
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