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How An MIT Data Viz Guru Is Exposing Cryptic Government Data
The U.S. government has access to the kind of data that makes guys like Cesar Hidalgo drool. The director of MIT Media Lab's MacroConnections Group, Hidalgo's passion is turning data into stories....
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From Two Ex-Nokia Designers, The Ultimate Analog Bike Accessory
People who ride bikes tend to appreciate the beauty of the analog machines they ride—untouched by electricity or gasoline, this mere assemblage of gears gives them the freedom to outpace digital life....
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MIT Invents A Way To 3-D Print Liquid Robots
Daniela Rus and Robert MacCurdy, two roboticists at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, have a dream. One day, they want you to be able to download a robot, 3-D print it at home,...
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This Swedish Scientist's Transparent Wood Could Transform Architecture
You don't have to shop at Ikea to see that Sweden is obsessed with wood. Over 57% of the country is covered in upwards of 51 billion trees, and lumber and paper products are one of the country's...
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Neural Networks: What Are They, And Why Is The Tech Industry Obsessed With Them?
From Deep Dream to Deep Drumpf, everyone's talking about neural networks these days. But what the heck are neural networks and what do they mean for the future of computing and design? Here's your...
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A Devastating Bird's Eye View Of Earth's Vanishing Rainforests
Even when there isn't a human being to seen in his photographs, the bloody thumbprint of humanity is everywhere in the work of nature photographer Daniel Beltrá. His series Forests focuses on tropical...
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MVRDV's Latest? Stairs That Let You Climb Up The Side Of A Building
Rotterdam's Central Railway Station, opened in 2014, is a beautiful, modern zig-zag of a building. Next door sits the hulking 1953 Groothandelsgebouw—one of the first buildings constructed after the...
View Article"The Matrix" Meets "Drive" In This Explosive Data Viz For Porsche
Driving a Porsche is incredible. I don't even care about cars, and the one time a friend let me drive his, I felt like I was racing through the streets on the back of a growling tiger. And that was...
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Finally, The Golden Ratio Gets Its Own Coloring Book
When it comes to design, the golden ratio is mostly bullshit. Though designers sometimes use it, there's just no proof people prefer that precise spatial ratio in their buildings, interfaces, or art....
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The Ultimate Gift Set For Mid-Century Modern Design Lovers
Some people send postcards because they're on vacation. Others, like me, wish they could send a postcard every time they see an expensive piece of mid-century modern design that is otherwise outside...
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5 Designers Reinvent The Humble Bathroom Faucet
Every year, the bathroom hardware-maker Axor asks a different group of international designers to envision the future of the bathroom. The project, called WaterDream, has seen its fair share of zany...
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Designing Beautiful Android Wear Watch Faces Just Got Much Easier
For the past two years, Ustwo—the London-based design company behind projects like the Escher-esque blockbuster iOS game Monument Valley to an app to save London from its parking nightmare—has been...
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Can't Program? Now There's A WYSIWYG For Designing With Code
Gone are the days when designers did all their UI/UX concepts in Photoshop. Now, they're being called on to code their mockups.But how do you introduce designers to code if they've never programmed...
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Alphabet's Other Robotics Company
You've heard of Boston Dynamics, the Alphabet-owned company behind America's coolest and weirdest robots. But have you heard of Schaft? As part of X, Alphabet's moonshot division, it's Alphabet's other...
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What Happens When You Apply Machine Learning To Logo Design
The rise of neural networks and generative design have created new opportunities for designers. But what if it went the other way, and robots created a Skynet that kills off human designers (or at...
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The Real Reason Microsoft Is Building So Many Computer Vision Apps
For the past few years, Microsoft has been steadily releasing goofy little apps that use neural networks to perform tricks ranging from guessing your age and rating your mustache to describing...
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Visualizing The Cosmic Web That Holds The Universe Together
There's a lot more to the universe than the stars we see in the sky. Invisible to the naked eye, the broader universe is made up of a vast cosmic web: filaments of gas which stretch between galaxies,...
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Empty Porn Sets Reveal The Strange World Of XXX Interior Design
At first, Jo Broughton's photographs look innocent. A teenage girl's bedroom. An empty class after a physics lesson. A room full of pink and blue balloons. But then you start noticing the details. The...
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Pentagram Sexes Up The Stodgy World Of Finance
The graphic design of the finance world is stodgy, boring, old-fashioned, and marvelously conservative. But money is sexy. So when approached by an influential group of New York security analysts to...
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This Super-Accurate Lunar Globe Waxes And Wanes On Your Table
As countries crumble, borders shift, and shorelines move, all Earth globes eventually become obsolete. You know what globe will never be out of date? This beautiful globe of the frickin' moon, which...
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