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Hillary Clinton's New App Gamifies The Fight Against Donald Trump
If you're not into politics, the election season—with all of its uncertainties and unpleasantness—can seem interminable. So if you're a candidate, particularly one who isn't a bile-spuming human sweet...
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Goodbye, VHS: A Visual Ode To A Disappearing Format
These days, video barely exists as a physical medium for most Americans. It streams in ultra high-quality through the air, like magic. For decades, though, video came encased in plastic rectangles...
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Portraits Of The Afterlife: The Eerie Costumes Of Japan's Folklore Festivals
The world is full of gods and demons, and it's the mission of French photographer Charles Fréger to capture them on film. In his latest series of photos, Yokainoshima, Fréger has turned his lens on...
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Dropbox's New Headquarters Has A Room For Every Mood
The mission of the popular file hosting and sharing platform Dropbox is to make it easy for people to work comfortably from anywhere. So when it came time to design its new deluxe San Francisco...
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The Surprisingly Subversive Typography Of Star Trek
For over 50 years, the Star Trek franchise has been exploring fonts that boldly go where no typographer has gone before. In an excellent article on the typography of the Final Frontier, Yves Peters has...
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The First Truly Awesome Chatbot Is A Talking T. Rex
As some have declared chatbots to be the "next webpage," brands have scrambled to develop their own talkative bots, letting you do everything from order a pizza to rewrite your resume. The truth is,...
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This Delightful App Shows Kids How Skyscrapers Really Work
Recently, a lucky photographer got a once-in-a-lifetime shot: A bolt of lightning striking the Empire State Building. I happened to be with my godson at the time it happened, so I showed him the...
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The Beautiful World Of Custom-Car Design
What is a car? For people like me, it's a thing you rent occasionally for road trips, or to take your elderly mother to Home Depot. We don't really care about make or model, slightly prefer hybrids if...
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Brag About How Many Books You've Read With This Scratch-Off Chart
Look, I don't like to brag, but as a professional writer, I read a lot of books. Not tweets, or Facebook statuses, or Instagram captions, but honest to god booooooooooks: those thick fluttering tree...
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Donald Trump Has Exactly 3 Positive Things To Say About America
Now that both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions are behind us, the New York Timeshas released a series of visualizations that compare the tone and content of the nominees' respective...
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Is Your Design Idea Hot Or Not? This App Will Tell You
Every designer can use quality feedback on a new idea, especially early in the conceptualizing phase. But what's the best way to get that feedback? Now in beta on iOS, Hatchli is a new app that's like...
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A 150-Year-Old Viz Trick Reveals The Beauty Of Airborne Birds
A bird in flight is a hypnotic sight, but the whorling, eddying patterns its wings take just don't freeze-frame well. Using a 19th century technique, though, Spanish photographer Xavi Bou has figured...
View ArticleThe MIT-Developed Tech That Could Make Pokémon Go Even Better
Without a doubt, Pokémon Go is the smash hit of the summer, and for good reason: As half-formed as the gameplay is, there's something truly thrilling about pointing your phone at the world around you...
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Wheels Turn This Smartphone Into A Robot Helper
Should smartphones have wheels? That question seems stupid at first—and maybe 10th—blush. But Takefumi Hiraki and Koya Narumi of the University of Japan have shown that wheels on phones can actually be...
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Sick Of The Subway? This Game Lets You Completely Redesign It
Do you have the design chops to overhaul the NYC subway system? It's harder than it looks.New Yorkers frustrated by the high fares, cramped commutes, and long walking distances to the nearest stop have...
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Here's How Rio's Olympic Venues Actually Turned Out
After years of apprehension, we're finally getting a look at the finished architecture of the Rio games.With a price tag that's already set records by being $1.6 billion over-budget, mass outbreaks of...
View ArticleThis Samsung v. Apple Amicus Brief Is Required Reading For Designers
More than 100 designers have come out in support of Apple—and their brief should be on every design school syllabus.After years of arguments, the Samsung v. Apple case has finally reached the U.S....
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In Defense Of The Gun Emoji
By changing the meaning of a universal symbol, Apple's attempt to take a stand on gun control could have the opposite effect.Last week, Apple made a small but significant update to the emoji set used...
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What I Learned Playing The World's Most Tragic Video Game
Kill Box puts you in the role of a drone pilot. Then, when you've completed your mission, it makes you the target.I am a Pakistani child, running through a colorful vegetable patch on a bright summer...
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Milton Glaser On 100 Years Of Mostly Sucky Olympic Logos
AIGA asked the graphic design legend to review every Olympic logo since 1924. They don't fare well.There have been more than 100 years of Olympic logos at this point, and the truth is, most of them are...
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