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This North Korean Art Movement Was Isolated For 50 Years
A new exhibition explores what happens to an artistic style when it's cut off from the rest of the world.Throughout Asia, ink wash painting on rice paper has been a popular artistic medium for hundreds...
View ArticleThe Terminator Of Tattoo Guns Is Here. Thanks, Autodesk!
An industrial robot arm, reprogrammed to puncture human skin and squirt ink inside.Drunken benders of the late 21st century will no longer end up at the dockside parlor, at the mercy of a hairy biker...
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Trump's Libertarian Rival Just Admitted To Stealing Designers' Work
The campaign of presidential candidate Gary Johnson lifted a Florida branding agency's web designs—but botched the execution.He might not have much chance of winning, and he may not command the same...
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18 Quintillion Planets, 0 Fun: My Day With The Year's Most-Anticipated Video...
No Man's Sky is the most beautiful video game ever made. So why is it boring?The windshield of my spaceship turns ember as I plummet through the atmosphere of another strange planet. As I drop through...
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Meet The Man Who Designed The Iconic Font In "Stranger Things''
"I just wanted to make a buck!"From the moment the credits of breakout Netflix show Stranger Things start, they transport you to the '80s. Creative studio Imaginary Forces accomplished that largely...
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Ikea's 2017 Catalog Is A Terrifying Glimpse Into The Tiny Apartments Of The...
Time to move to Alaska, kids. The cities are officially full.Micro apartments. They're all the rage, mostly because they're all that the majority of metropolis-living millennials can actually afford....
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North Korea's Answer To Missed Construction Deadlines? Crystal Meth
According to Radio Free Asia, project managers in Pyongyang are giving overworked builders ice to help meet deadlines.In the United States, doing crystal meth on the job will get you fired. In North...
View ArticleIt Was Only A Matter Of Time: This Neural Net Dreams Up New Pokémon
And it reveals how well-designed the original monsters were.Neural networks and Pokémon Go. It was only a matter of time before some computer scientist realized this was a chocolate-and-peanut butter...
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Is Open-Sourced Design Any Good? Mozilla Is Finding Out
Check out the seven finalists in the company's completely transparent search for a new identity.Mozilla, the company behind the third-most popular web browser Firefox, is a nonprofit organization with...
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7 Wearable Breakthroughs To Watch For In Rio
Keep your eyes peeled for these innovative items.As of writing, the United States has won 84 medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, almost twice as many as any other country competing this year,...
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There's A Nosulus Rift And Guess What It Lets You Smell?
FARTS!!!!!!Virtual reality has already mastered sight and touch, two of the five senses. Now, video game maker Ubisoft is trying to bring a third sense into the virtual world—the sense of smell....
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Brainstorm Better With This Simple Card Game, From Obama's Campaign Designers
Cards Against Humanity for brainstorming is here.Brainstorming is dumb. Oh, sure, it sounds good: an open forum for ideas to bounce off one another in a democratic group sesh where everyone's views and...
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Why Architects Design Chairs
Working at a small scale has some surprising benefits.Eero Saarinen, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Thomas Heatherwick, Walter Gropius, Shigeru Ban, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry: If it seems like every...
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How Kickstarter Is Tackling Its Vaporware Problem With UI
A new feature puts proof front and center that a campaign has a functional prototype."There's absolutely no question that the health of the Kickstarter platform is founded on trust and transparency,"...
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The Easiest Way To Pilot Your Smart Home? Try A Button.
Logitech's cute, easily programmed buttons offer a vastly simplified way to control your burgeoning network of smart appliances.The Internet of Things is a confusing place. You may have several smart...
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Wikipedia Is A Giant Unfathomable Universe--Now You Can Explore It Like One
Forget the universe. Enter the Wikiverse.If Wikipedia's mission is to embody the universe of human knowledge in one freely accessible, crowdsourced encyclopedia, Wikiverse is that universe. This newly...
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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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This North Korean Art Movement Was Isolated For 50 Years
A new exhibition explores what happens to an artistic style when it's cut off from the rest of the world.Throughout Asia, ink wash painting on rice paper has been a popular artistic medium for hundreds...
View ArticleThe Terminator Of Tattoo Guns Is Here. Thanks, Autodesk!
An industrial robot arm, reprogrammed to puncture human skin and squirt ink inside.Drunken benders of the late 21st century will no longer end up at the dockside parlor, at the mercy of a hairy biker...
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