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Meet The Chuck II, The First New Converse All Star Design In 100 Years
Released for the first time in 1917, the Converse Chuck Taylor All Star is an American design classic. The Chuck's canvas, star-blazoned silhouette isn't just iconic, it's sacrosanct, and for good...
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When Handwriting Dies, Neural Networks Will Be The Only Calligraphers Left
In the digital age, proficiency with a keyboard is considered more important to a student's education than legible handwriting, leading some to despair that the art of writing by hand is going extinct....
View ArticleThis Beautiful iPhone Game Is All About Bonsai On An Alien World
Bonsai seems like a slow-paced subject for a great video game, but Prune might be the best designed iOS game to come around since Monument Valley: a lovely, serene, and haunting puzzler about bonsai on...
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A Pair Of Sunglasses That Simulate LSD Hallucinations
Viewing the world through rose-colored glasses is boring. What about hallucinogenic-, psychotropic-, electric-Kool-Aid-colored glasses instead? Wayfarer, meet way out: Hungarian artist Bence Agoston...
View ArticleThis Colorful Compilation Of Fake UIs Is The Best Thing You'll See Today
It's Friday, and we're all a little tired. So here's some frothy Friday design fun for you: a loop of 100 super fun, pre-animated fake user interface elements, backed up with the intro song to some...
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Why Is This House Dangling From The Arm Of A Crane?
70 years after World War II, some places in Germany are still rebuilding. For this and other reasons, the sight of a construction crane is a common blight upon the German skyline. But in the artsy city...
View ArticleThese Animated Walls Of Type Show Off Monotype's Fonts Like Print Never Could
As part of a commission from the world's largest type foundry, Field—a studio led by Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn that delivers branded art for a global audience, whose work we have admired in the...
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A Staircase Designed For Dogs
We design houses for humans. We design houses for dogs. What we don't design are houses for humans and dogs, which is somewhat odd, considering the fact we often co-habitate. But dogs and humans have...
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Calligraphy And Choreography Merge In These Magical Light Paintings
Scribing luminescent glyphs of power, French artist Julien Breton travels the world, combining dance, light, and photography to create stunning works of Arabic calligraphy that seem to magically hang...
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Wes Anderson Meets Tim Burton In These Creepy, Intricate Dioramas
Looking at the dioramas of French artist Marc Giai-Minet, you'd be forgiven thinking they were props from some strange Hollywood team-up between Tim Burton and Wes Anderson. His scenes of unseemly...
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This 1,400-Foot Desert Citadel Would Be A Self-Sustaining City Of Tomorrow
It may look like Immortan Joe's Citadel from Mad Max: Fury Road, but this abstract desert obelisk isn't a citadel of the post-apocalypse. It's a self-contained city—also called an arcology—that French...
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Cards Against Humanity's Latest Pack Is All About Design
Have you ever wondered how famed Mac designer Susan Kare might go about designing a pair of pixel art tits, or how ornery ad legend Milton Glaser might handle a design brief that simply read...
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A Carpet That Hooks Up To Your Radiator To Kill Dust Mites
For those with acute asthma, owning a carpet can be murder. Even if you vacuum regularly, a rug serves as a perpetual pleasure garden for tens of thousands of attack-inducing dust mites. "Pillows,...
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The Golden Rectangle Makes For A Great Set Of Shelves
The Golden Ratio might be design's biggest myth, but that's not to say that it's useless. Aesthetics aside, the Fibonacci Sequence upon which the Golden Ratio is based is a very useful formula for...
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A DIY Pantone Stained Glass Door Anyone Can Make
Not to get all Instructables on you, but as a design writer, sometimes you come across a design detail that is just so lovely and well executed and approachable, you want to call attention to it, so...
View ArticleNetflix Designed A Symphony From Random Brainwaves
Netflix's new sci-fi show by Babylon 5 alum J. Michael Straczynski, Sense 8, is all about eight characters around the world who can suddenly communicate with each other telepathically. Suitably, that's...
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This Roll-Up Map Highlights Parks And Pools When It's Hot Out
We're used to digital maps that can automatically adapt themselves to road conditions, traffic, and time of day, but paper maps are usually a different story. This map by British designer Camilla...
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Is Space About To Experience A Design Renaissance?
Getting human beings off the planet is the hardest design challenge mankind has ever undertaken. Yet it's also a solved problem: we've been sending people into space since 1961.50 years later and space...
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This Sensor Will Tell You How Busy The Gym Is Before You Even Leave The House
No one likes a bar that's too crowded, or for that matter, one that's too dead. But what if you could pull out your smartphone and see just how jumping your favorite hot spot was before you made your...
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Pinterest Hires Mac Design Legend Susan Kare
Susan Kare, the legendary designer behind the original Mac's icons and fonts (and, more recently, a killer set of pixel art tits for Cards Against Humanity), is hoisting her pirate flag at a new...
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