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Inside Ikea's Innovation Lab For The Future Of Better Living
Ikea usually keeps a close lid on what it is working on next. But with Space10, an innovation lab recently opened in Copenhagen's hip meatpacking district, Ikea is looking to change all that. The...
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The Morbid History Of Victorian Surgery, Beautifully Illustrated
If you're the type of person who gets dizzy at the sight of a little blood, you might want to stay away from Crucial Interventions. A gorgeously designed new book from Thames & Hudson, it's a...
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7 Whimsical Ways To Redesign The Pencil
It's pretty common for teachers to task their design students with rethinking a ubiquitous object, so designers Luka Or and Keren Tomer weren't exactly going rogue when they asked their third-year...
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This 3-D Printed Haiku Is Invisible Until You Put It In Water
Water striders are a family of insects that are able to transfer their body weight so they can run on top of the water's surface. Upon seeing them for the first time at the Jakkoin Temple near Kyoto,...
View ArticleCalculate How Fast You're Traveling Through Space Right Now
You might think you're not moving right now, but you couldn't be more wrong. This big blue orb known as Earth is always spinning around the sun, and even when you're sitting perfectly still, you're...
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Bird Flu: The Furniture Design Material Of Tomorrow?
Chickens give us more than just McNuggets and eggs. Their feathers are in our pillows, clothes, and furniture, while their bones can be incinerated and turned into ash to make fine china. Emilie van...
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The Perfect Christmas Gift For Retro-Futurists: Ripley's Watch From "Aliens"
James Cameron's Aliens takes place in the year 2179, but the watch Xenomorph-slaying heroine Ellen Ripley wears in it is surprisingly retro: the Seiko Giugiaro 7A28-7000. Designed by Italian car...
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Here Are Some Pantone Bags. They Are Colorful
Since 2009, Pantone has been pushing millions into online marketing to turn the color company into the cult of personality it is today. And maybe now, it's paid off? Because you can now not just find...
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Tobias Frere-Jones Returns With His Most Personal Font Yet
Type genius Tobias Frere-Jones today released his first font since splitting with longtime creative partner Jonathan Hoefler. Mallory, an approachable sans serif designed to be used in different...
View ArticleSee The Radio Waves Pulsing Around You With This iPhone App
Architecture of Radio, the experimental app by Richard Vijgen that lets you "see" Wi-Fi signals, satellites, and other radio waves, is now available for anyone to download.Originally presented at...
View ArticleGlorious Pop-Up Book Unfolds To Become A Working Camera
In the digital age, we don't usually give much thought to how cameras work. They're just another magic sensor inside of our glass rectangles. In an attempt to help us understand how cameras work,...
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What If Google Glass Had Looked Like This?
Google Glass always looked impossibly dorky, no matter how many Vogue fashion shoots and leading fashion designers Google threw at it. That's part of the reason why the search giant discontinued Glass...
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Pantone's "Gender-Blurring" Colors Of The Year Are . . . Pink And Blue!?
2015 was as progressive a year for gender and trans politics as we've ever seen. It's the year Caitlyn Jenner made the cover of People, the first openly transgender person was nominated for a primetime...
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The Co.Design Guide To Holiday Shopping
Design lovers can be intimidating to shop for. Surely it'll take a king's ransom to please them. But good design is for everyone, at every price range, which is why we put together this guide. Whether...
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Bridge-Building Bots And Rococo Radiators: Inside Designer Joris Laarman's...
Joris Laarman is not afraid of a little decorative flourish. For more than a decade, the Dutch designer has deployed cutting-edge manufacturing techniques to marry the functional and the ornamental,...
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MAP Helps Kano Design A DIY Computer Display
Kano's mission is to usher in the next wave of computer knowledge across the globe. "Just as the first PC revolution was about making computers simple for everyone to use, the next revolution is going...
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Is Shame An Overlooked Design Tool?
When they aren't hiding behind a cloak of anonymity, racist Internet trolls often count on the fact that their digital and online lives don't overlap. A group in Brazil is trying to show that online...
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A Tourist Map Of London's Brutalism
Over the course of a few decades ending in the mid-'70s, architects such as Erno Goldfinger, Alison and Peter Smithson, and Sir Basil Spence made London a brutalist playground. Forty years later, many...
View ArticleWhat Happened When A Design Agency Made A Twitter Bot Its Creative Director
It's not uncommon for design agencies to have a creative director barking orders at the design bullpen all day. Edmonton's Paper Leaf has one too, but theirs is unique. Meet Hugo, a 10-inch-tall, soft...
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350 Material Design Icons You Can Download For Free
Last time we wrote about icon designer Vincent Le Moign, it was because he and his company Webalys had released a collection of minimalist icons of boobs, bongs, and poop. Webalys's follow-up is a lot...
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