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If Fonts Were People, Here's How They'd Look
Typefaces are all about expressing personality traits, whether it's honesty, sophistication, or immaturity. Here to put the face in typeface is Giovanni Isnenghi who has recombined glyphs and symbols...
View ArticleHow Complex Systems And Chaos Theory Work, According To Emoji
Emoji are a great way to express yourself. Through Simulating the World, the latest interactive web toy by artist Nicky Case, they're more than just cute stickers. They become a tool for thinking about...
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"Don Quixote" Gets A Stunning Graphic Makeover
Four hundred years after it was first published, Miguel de Cervantes'Don Quixote is still commonly hailed as one of the finest novels ever written. Now the adventures of the feeble-brained hidalgo who...
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Nascent Lets Anyone Design And Manufacture Gadgets
This week in Las Vegas, thousands of new gadgets will see the light of day as part of CES, the annual Consumer Electronics Show. But a year or two from now, many of them, maybe most of them, will be...
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How Robot Beauty Pageants Could Revolutionize The Future Of Health
Ask Miss Columbia: humans, with all their subjective standards of good looks, are just crap at judging beauty contests. But will artificial intelligences be any better at it? That's what Beauty.AI, a...
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Why Martian Concrete Might Be The Best Building Material In The Solar System
Concrete has been critical to the colonization of our own planet. The Romans and Egyptians built their empires upon it, and when their formula for concrete was lost, humanity invented it all over again...
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A New Type of 3-D Printed Ceramic Could Revolutionize How Spacecraft Are Built
Because they are strong, light, and heat-resistant, ceramics are an incredibly important material for aerospace applications, such as hypersonic jets and space shuttles. That's why 3-D printing...
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How Satellites Spy On Us
Humanity has filled space with a staggering number of satellites in the 60-odd years since Sputnik, with the United States Space Surveillance Network currently tracking more than 8,000 man-made...
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This Power Plant's Moiré Chimney Is A Dazzling Ad For Clean Energy
The moiré effect is an optical illusion that makes static objects look like they're constantly in flux. You see it pretty often used in video and printing, but a new work by British artist Conrad...
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Excel Is Broken, But Guesstimate Fixes One Big Problem With Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are absolute. You enter some variables, and a spreadsheet outputs an absolute number, according to whatever logic has been programmed into it. But here's the problem: While spreadsheets...
View ArticleThe MagSafe Of Hammers Makes Bruised Thumbs History
Ever needed to hammer in a nail one-handed? Without a nailgun, it's almost impossible, but this cool German hammer has been designed to make it easy to do that—and it's so clever, you'll wonder why...
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13 Immortal Costumes From The Closet Of David Bowie
The man who fell to Earth has fallen back. On Sunday, David Bowie—the glamorous, gender-bending rock icon whose 50-year career immortalized him in the realms of music, film, art, and fashion—died after...
View ArticleYou'll Need To Swim To Visit This Peaceful Floating Pavilion In Malta
What would a wedding chapel floating on the ocean look like? The AntiRoom II is probably the closest answer to that question: a floating pavilion that looks like a sacred place for mermaids and mermen...
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"Night Shift" Could Be iOS's Most Important UX Improvement In Years
Reading on a screen at night is probably killing your sleep: Research shows that using a tablet, smartphone, or laptop for a couple of hours before bed can cause you to lose as much as an hour's worth...
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This Sassy Typeface Proves That Fonts For UI Don't Have To Be Boring
From Google's Roboto to Apple's San Francisco, there's no shortage of typefaces optimized for interface design. For better or worse, though, those typefaces tend to be pretty bland. Christian Schwartz,...
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One Designer Reimagines Swiss Style For The Age Of CSS
From iOS to Material Design, the legacy of International Typographic Style is everywhere in digital design. That's pretty impressive, considering the fact that the 1950s-era Swiss design trend was...
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A Legendary Japanese Architect's Unusual Alternative To Lego
Most kids get their first exposure to architecture through building blocks, whether they're Lego bricks or simple wooden cubes. But in architecture, squares and rectangles aren't the strongest,...
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A Brilliant MIT Invention Makes Incandescent Bulbs As Efficient As LEDs
An energy-saving light bulb containing LEDs uses up to 80% less energy and lasts up to 25 times as long as a traditional incandescent bulb. There's just one problem: many people think that the quality...
View ArticleSurvey: Which Design Jobs Pay The Most?
Read more: The Most Important Design Jobs Of The FutureDesigners earning top dollar work in UX, know how to code, and live in California. And—surprise—they're men. Those are some of the main takeaways...
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Wild, But Housebroken: Portraits Of 14 Exotic Pets Living In Suburbia
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have a heart attack when they find a burmese python in their living room, and those who only start panicking when their python is missing....
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