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Samsung's Latest TV Is Also An Unexpected Design Masterpiece
Televisions were once built more like furniture than anything else, expected to fit into a home's decor for decades. But in more recent times, the attention has shifted to the more gadgety aspects of a...
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Nendo's Carbon Fiber Bookshelf Stretches To Any Size You Need
Here's something that's happened to everyone. You've got a pile of books just sort of hanging out, looking like a bomb went off. So you decide to buy some shelves for them. You buy a perfectly sized...
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Zaha Hadid Finally Admits Her 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium Bid Is Dead
The demise of Zaha Hadid's 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium may have been greatly exaggerated in the past, but now we can actually call it: it's dead.Controversy has embroiled Hadid's proposed design from...
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Firing Its Designers Might Be The Best Thing For The Creators Of Fruit Ninja
Do you need to have designers on staff to run a design-focused company? Not necessarily. In fact, there are some circumstances in which handing a few key designers ultimate power over a project can be...
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The London Underground Finally Publishes A Geographically Accurate Tube Map
Colorfully laid out according to the clean, minimalist principles of electric diagrams, Henry Beck's map for the London Underground is unquestionably a design classic; one that has been updated—but...
View ArticleFrom Motorcycles To Robots, Honda Animates 70 Years Of Automotive History
Did you watch football on Sunday? If so, you might have caught Honda's new "Paper" ad, tracing the Japanese corporation's history through 70 years, from motorcycles to futuristic robots, all in under...
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The Lost Apple Logo You've Never Seen
Popularly, most people think of Apple as only ever having one logo (albeit one that has come in many shades, colors, and textures), from the Apple II to the iPad Pro. But the truth is that even now,...
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NASA Technology Helped Create This Alien Typeface
First invented by NASA in the 1960s, ferrofluid has been experiencing a kind of renaissance lately, being used in everything from high-tech lava lamps to designer alarm clocks. Now, designer Craig Ward...
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The Luna, A Giant Moon For Your Living Room
Few things set a more romantic mood than moonlight. Luna is a lamp that attempts to recreate that mood by dropping a round, cratered sphere on your dining room table, bedroom nightstand, or living room...
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Enjoy 366 Days Of Inspiration With The 2016 Typodarium Calendar
We're not even into October yet, and competition is already fierce when it comes to recommending the best-designed calendar for 2016. Just a couple weeks ago, we were convinced that the CMYK Color...
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The Pachinko Machine Of Your Probable Death
Thanks to humanity's endless fascination with mortality, there's no shortage of tools out there that will predict how much longer you've got to live. But according to FlowingData's Nathan Yau, all...
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Yes, This GIF Takes 1,000 Years To Loop
GIFs are designed to loop short clips—generally a couple seconds long—over and over until you close your browser window. But As Long As Possible is a different kind of GIF; one rendered on a geologic...
View ArticleThis Unobtrusive Arm Band Will Let You Feel Virtual Reality
Virtual reality is getting more immersive and stimulating by the day, but if you try to feel something in VR, your hand will just pass right through the air. A new Japanese startup wants to change that...
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Chess Deconstructed: Inside The Saul Bass Tribute-Turned-Video Game
The legendary Saul Bass was one of the most influential graphic designers of the 20th century, lending his unique unique vision to everything from corporate logos to motion picture title sequences....
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Learn How Neurons Work Through An Autobiographical, Interactive Story
Falling somewhere between an infographic, a web comic, and an animated TED talk, Neurotic Neurons, an interactive graphic by artist Nicky Case, is charming, educational, funny, sad, and strangely...
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A Constructivist Swing Set For Kid-At-Heart Designers
There's no shortage of well-designed playgrounds in the world, but far rarer is the playground built squarely for designers. So London design duo Isabel + Helen decided to make one: a sculptural swing...
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These Ornamental Screens Are Like Lamp Shades Made Into Furniture
Let's be fair: most lampshades are pretty hideous, and they're permanently affixed to your lamp. The Interlace, by Taiwanese design studio Viichen Design, looks to decouple the lampshade from your...
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Can Good Design Help Raise More Money For Cancer?
In Britain, Maggie's is a nonprofit charity aimed at giving cancer patients support, information, and advice. It was named after Maggie Keswick Jencks, the wife of architectural critic Charles Jencks,...
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This VR Headset Lets You Experience Nature Through Animal Eyes
Marshmallow Laser Feast's VR headsets aren't meant for the living room, but rather the middle of the forest. Resembling round diving helmets with viewports of moss, they let you experience the forest...
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This Folding E-Bike Wants To Solve Bike Commuting's Major Design Problems
The bicycle is one of our best hopes when it comes to alleviating many of the world's transportation issues. But even though they are cleaner, healthier, and more efficient to own and ride than an...
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