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A Robot Mickey Mouse Head Designed To Make Kids Go Nuts
The last time we wrote about the designers behind the Polish firm panGenerator, they had visualized the deaths of World War II as a cascade of bullet shells. In collaboration with Disney, their latest...
View ArticleThese Weather Maps For The Year 2100 Are Depressing As Hell
The Northeast has experienced a remarkably mild winter this year: one so eerily topsy-turvy that, on Christmas, New York City was warmer than Los Angeles. The unseasonably warm weather is partially due...
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Lego's New Policy For Selling To Artists: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Last fall, Lego courted rare controversy by refusing to sell plastic bricks in bulk to Chinese artist Ai Weiwei due to the political nature of his project. That won't happen again according to the...
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Limited Edition Monopoly Is Like A Hayao Miyazaki Film
Few games are more surreal than Monopoly, inspired, as it seemingly is, by a Roaring '20s plutocrat's mescaline-fueled bender through Atlantic City. But which is weirder: the American version, or...
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214 Subway Systems Combined Into One Worldwide Metro Map
Every subway system feels like its own self-contained world, but what if those worlds were linked? The World Metro Map takes the subway systems of 214 cities across five continents, and unifies them...
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M.C. Escher Would Have Loved Nendo's New Post-It Notes
If Escher had worked for 3M, he may have designed something like this. The Block Memo is actually Japanese design studio Nendo's answer to the bank of Post-it notes on your desk: a three-sided block of...
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Why Designers Love The Ampersand
Cheerily nuzzled above the "7" key like a pear-shaped pill bug, the ampersand is perhaps the most intriguing character on the keyboard. While all letters and punctuation marks look similar enough in...
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6 Classic Nintendo Gameworlds, Redrawn As Subway Maps
Video games and subway maps don't seem to have much in common, but for Washington, D.C.-based graphic designer Matthew Stevenson, the connection between the two is obvious: both are ways to explore...
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A Glove That Helps Parkinson's Patients Do More With Their Hands
Two years ago, a young medical student named Faii Ong was asked to help care for a 103-year old patient who kept losing weight. "No one knew what was going on," Ong told me recently. "No one knew why...
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"Exploding Kittens," Kickstarter's Most Funded Game Of All Time, Is Now An App
Imagine a version of Russian Roulette played with a cat that had dynamite up its butt, then add in some Uno for good measure. That's Exploding Kittens in a nutshell, a card game designed by Microsoft's...
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8 Classic Novels Reduced To Their Punctuation
What's a novel without its words? Just punctuation. But when you take those lines of commas, periods, exclamation points, and quotes, then arrange them in a big spiral, you can still tell something of...
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MIT's New Algorithms Could Stop Catastrophic Drone Crashes
Drones. They crash. A lot. Right now, they're only as good as their pilots, which often means "not very." As for so-called autonomous drones, they're fine in well-documented open spaces, but have a...
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Guns Have Human Guts In These Hyperreal Sculptures
What if guns were as vulnerable beneath their blue steel shells as the humans or animals they're designed to kill? In his (literally) visceral Anatomy of War sculptures, artist Noah Scalin imagines...
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Drink Beers, Then Scratch Them Off This Infographic Like A Lottery Ticket
The guys at Brooklyn's Pop Chart Lab's already put out the most comprehensive beer infographic on the planet, but you'd die of alcohol poisoning if you tried to drink your way through it, even in a...
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This Designer's Amputee Dad Inspired Him To Redesign The Crutch
When Max Younger was a kid, his dad Dan was always on crutches. A serious childhood injury meant that his father was constantly in-and-out of the hospital, getting surgeries and knee replacements....
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Every State Of The Union Address Since George Washington, Visualized
After a while, all State of the Union addresses start to sound alike. But how alike are they really? To find out, data analysis company Civis Analytics looked at every State of the Union address...
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These Designers Invented A New Way To 3-D Print Concrete Architecture
While studying together at the Bartlett School of Architecture, masters students Francesca Camilleri, Nadia Doukhi, Alvaro Lopez Rodriguez and Roman Strukov all agreed that 3-D printing was the future...
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A Floating Bonsai Tree That Defies Gravity With Magnets
The pages of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic novella, The Little Prince, contain a magnificent drawing of a floating moon, overgrown by baobab trees. That imageāor maybe the floating plant islands...
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These Haptic Gloves Could Revolutionize Cancer Detection (And Maybe VR)
Doctors might get even better at detecting tumors in breast cancer patients early, thanks to pressure-sensitive rubber gloves that supercharge their sense of touch. But the sensors that power those...
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Meet The Man Who Created Papyrus, The World's (Other) Most Hated Font
You've probably never heard of Chris Costello, but there's a good chance you hate him. Outside of Comic Sans creator Vincent Connare, Costello is perhaps the most vilified man in all font design....
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