Watch: A Captivating Time-Lapse Of Snowflakes Forming In Midair
What does a snowfall look like? Not as it floats down from a gray sky to land upon an outstretched tongue, but as it grows from a single molecule? It looks like some kind of crystal flower, blossoming...
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How 19th-Century Dandies Explain Kim Kardashian's Gajillion Selfies
Ask many critics, and they will tell you that the selfie is, perhaps, the greatest scourge of narcissism to have ever infected the minds of youth. According to the Calgary Herald's Andrew Cohen,...
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The Mullet Of Smartphones: E-Ink In Front, Color Display In Back
E-ink is a wonderful technology. Easier on the eye than other display technologies and frugally power sipping, it's what allows your average Kindle to run for months on a single charge. In the bright,...
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10 Oscar-Nominated Movie Posters Get A Pop Art Makeover
For the second year in a row, stock photography agency Shutterstock has asked its design team to mash-up its library of 30 million stock photos, vector graphics, and illustrations into original new pop...
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This Twitter Logo Redesign Takes Simplicity Too Far
First launched in 2010, Twitter's icon--a cheery blue bird--has become an important part of the micro-blogging service's visual identity. At a time when pretty much every aspect of digital design is...
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19 Hipster Logos Rebranded As Evil Corporate Doppelgängers
What would the brands most popular among hipsters look like if they were recreated in the style of their corporate counterparts? What if Intelligentsia Coffee's logo looked like Starbucks's, or Best...
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Mike Parker, Godfather Of Helvetica, Dies
Mike Parker--a legendary typographer, type designer, and historian who is perhaps best known for his work giving the world Helvetica--died Sunday night. He was 85.A consultant, type historian, and...
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BroApp Sends Texts To Your GF, So You Can Spend More Time With Your Bros
Let's say you have a girlfriend, and she gets irritated because you can't do the bare minimum by sending a text once a day to ask how she's doing. Enter BroApp. It's a "clever relationship wingman"...
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The Surprising History Of The Warner Bros. Logo
The Warner Bros. logo has always had the same basic premise: It's a shield floating in the clouds stamped with the initials W.B. Everyone knows it, and looking back at old Warner Bros. movies, it's...
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All The Dresses Of Best Actress Oscar Winners Since 1929
At the who's who of the Oscars red carpet, who wins best actress is just as important as "who" that actress is wearing. But what if just the dress--shed of the actress strapped inside--accepted the...
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Watch These Wooden "Ghostcubes" Magically Transform Into Different Shapes
Imagine a giant origami sculpture made of wood and you start to understand Ghostcubes. A series of interconnected wooden cubes that can be manipulated into an assortment of shapes and configurations,...
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Oscar Mayer Rebrands Lunchables For Adults
I will admit to have guided my shopping trolley down the meat and dairy aisle at my local supermarket to cast my gaze upon the Lunchables and mournfully sigh. Transfixed by my own personal Anton Ego...
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Behind Google Maps' Intuitive New Design
First launched in 2005, Google Maps has helped hundreds of millions of people plot billions of trips worldwide. It's one of the most indispensable Internet services available: more than 54% of all...
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Olive Garden's New Logo Is The Pits
In a presentation given on Monday to shareholders and investors, Olive Garden announced a so-called brand renaissance, which replaces its old, cheerfully incompetent logo with one that looks as if it...
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Design Pirate Cody Foster Tries To Buy Victim's Silence
Design pirate Cody Foster is at it again. Accused of ripping off the designs of a number of independent designers late last year, the Nebraskan tchotchke wholesaler is now trying to settle one of the...
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The Bible Reduced To Minimalist Posters
The Bible is often referred to as the word of God. In reality, it's significantly longer: around 775,000 words spread across 66 different books, when all is said and done. How do you distill the word...
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The Book That Lies Behind The Success Of HBO's "True Detective"
A collection of strange art nouveau stories by American author Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow has gone virtually unread for most of the past century. The first half of the book is made up of...
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Facebook Releases A Cleaner, Mobile-Friendly News Feed
Back when it was just a scrappy little startup instead of a social networking juggernaut, Facebook's motto used to be "move fast and break things." Of course, when you serve 1.2 billion people across...
View ArticleThe Story Behind The THX Deep Note
Something between a black MIDI glissando and a brown note, the THX "Deep Note" is one of the world's most recognizable audio logos, signaling the highest quality audio standard in films. Parodied by...
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A Typographic Makeover Of Email
The evolution of email over the last 30 years has skewed toward management and utility, not readability. It's an understandable progression: As our inboxes increasingly overfloweth, email has...
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