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47 Behind-The-Scenes Photos Of "Star Wars"
Actor Peter Mayhew is the kind of guy who you'd probably think twice about sitting across from in a bar. Towering over seven-and-a-half feet tall, Mayhew is a shaggy, wild-eyed giant in the civilian...
View Article$200 T-Shirt Designed To Help You Stop Slouching
Whether with back braces or corsets, fashion has long tasked itself with correcting the sorry, slumping postures of the world's chronic slouchers. A new fashion line hopes to combat the problem of...
View ArticleThis Optical Illusion Game Would Make M.C. Escher Drool
Forced perspective is that optical illusion that can make an object appear larger, smaller, or farther away. It's a technique that's been used in everything from film to architecture to a Canadian...
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350 Kinds Of Zombies, Explained
As explained in Dan O'Bannon's classic 1985 punk rock zombie film, Return of the Living Dead, rigor mortis starts in the brain and then it spreads down to the internal organs and finally settles into...
View ArticleAn Incredible Look At Where The World's Counterfeit Statues Are Made
China is infamous for its ability to create cheap knockoffs of almost anything, from toys to sneakers to smartphones. Not even priceless masterworks are exempt from Chinese counterfeiting. Right...
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Watch A Designer Teach Pirates How To Knock Off His Luxury Bags
What do you do when pirates continually knock off your company's luxury bag designs? If you're Saddleback Leather, you hit YouTube and turn the design piracy of your "competitors" into a marketing tool...
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The Scotch Tape Roll Gets A Revamp
A Chinese design team has just fixed the single most annoying thing about tape: finding the invisible %&@!-ing edge when it gets lost on the roll.Rather than focus on developing an elaborate...
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Psychopathic Pimp Sues Nike, Alleging Deadly Air Jordan Design
Under the transformative leadership of Mark Parker, Nike has made its driving mission to prove that a sneaker can never be too well-designed. But one psychopathic pimp would beg to differ. He says Nike...
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Design Pirate Cody Foster Threatens Whistleblower
A Nebraska-based tchotchke maker accused of stealing independent designers' work is threatening to sue a Flickr user who provided online evidence of the company's pirating ways.Last October,...
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Infographic: How Dogs Evolved
Some 40,000 years ago, dogs were wolves: silver-eyed stalkers who hunted man with blood-smeared lips in the deserts of Paleolithic Persia. Today, though, millennia of domestication have turned those...
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Artist Embroiders His Loved Ones Into His Own Flesh
Whether just a photograph in a wallet or a strand of hair in a locket, most of us carry a part of our loved ones around with us. Artist David RodrÃguez does a lot more than that, though: he turns these...
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Hoefler & Frere-Jones, The Beatles Of The Type World, Are Breaking Up
Hoefler & Frere-Jones--perhaps the world's most renowned type foundry whose fonts have been seen everywhere from the pages of GQ to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign--is splitting up. And...
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100 Famous Movie Quotes, Visualized
In 2005, the American Film Institute polled a jury of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians to come up with 100 Years, 100 Movie Quotes, a list of the most memorable movie quotes in Hollywood...
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This iPhone App Wants To Kill Badly Framed YouTube Videos Forever
Smartphones have put powerful video cameras in millions of pockets, but that doesn't mean that the people wielding them know how to make a movie. Peruse YouTube and you will find tens of thousands of...
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A Kit To Transform Your Lomocam Into A Polaroid
"What the hell is Lomography?" So begins the latest press kit from the Lomographic Society, which is almost in and of itself reason enough to write about their newest product, a kit that piggybacks off...
View ArticleWatch The Amazing Flight Pattern Of Birds
The world is filled with invisible geometry, from the patterns of Wi-Fi signals cloaking our nation's capital to the indiscernible dark matter that makes up the bulk of our universe. Oftentimes, these...
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Squarespace Makes Designing A Logo Dead Simple
Since the company first launched in 2004*, Squarespace's mission has been very clearly defined: it shouldn't be hard for people to knock together a well-designed web presence, no matter what their...
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Is Squarespace's New Logo Generator A Design Crime?
Yesterday, Squarespace released a new tool called Squarespace Logo that brought the company's dead easy, drag-and-drop approach to making a logo. We wrote it up, and while we didn't think it was...
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Helvetica And Garamond Glasses Turn Fonts Into Frames
If you're the sort of person who always looks upon the world through the discriminating lenses of type design, great news! You can now literally wear eyeglasses based on fonts thanks to Type a new line...
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Sci-Fi Device Lets Men And Women Swap Bodies
Talk about going on a gender bender.A new machine created by a Spanish design collective combines virtual reality with advanced neuroscientific techniques to let men and women swap bodies with each...
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