“With this renewed awareness, I started noticing that it can be as subtle as the pose. I, myself, told models to hunch their shoulders, lean forward, angle the head. Industry standard. But why was it industry standard?” By Jennifer Moss.

Armed with cutters, knives, cissors, paper, wood, and a lot of patience, Rosa de Jong creates impressive tiny houses that she keeps in small glass test tubes. It’s not obvious on the studio pictures, but you can see on the photos of her working that the houses and other structures are really tiny.

Four decades of New Year's Eve art

For the first time ever, this month’s Stupid Patent of the Month is being awarded to a design patent. Microsoft recently sued Corel for, among other things, infringing its patent on a slider, D554,140, claiming that Corel Home Office has infringed Microsoft’s design. The design patent, as detailed by Microsoft in its complaint, is titled “User Interface for a Portion of a Display Screen” and entitles Microsoft to own this:

“The people who made Secret Hitler advertise it as a playable psychological model of how totalitarianism takes root. Their sales pitch also reassures that the game ‘doesn’t model the specifics of German parliamentary politics.’ Which makes sense: just as all art must draw some line around reality, so did Secret Hitler’s designers pick and choose from the horrific totality of actual-Hitler’s work, isolating just the right parts to weave into their party game.” By Rob Dubbin.

The Pantone #ColoroftheYear for 2016 is #RoseQuartz & #Serenity, inviting shades that embody a mindset of tranquility and inner peace.

During the late 19th century, when typewriters were just emerging, precise, formulaic penmanship and letter-making was an essential business tool.

A selected chapter from the exhibition catalogue for the Walker Center’s “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” by curator Andrew Blauvelt.

The history of Fiat began many years ago, at the dawn of Italian industrialisation, in which the company has always played a leading role. From that moment on, the Fiat brand spread throughout the world and developed extensively. The tiny Fiat 500 is now something of a trendy cult car, its rounded egg-like body and diminutive size endearing it to millions.

“Silver to Steel: The Modern Designs of Peter Muller-Munk,” an illuminating exhibition at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art, traces Muller-Munk’s evolution from craftsman of precious objects to stylist of household appliances. By Martin Filler.

Many of the first European maps of the Americas included warnings of cannibalism, despite no proof of such activity. By Allison Meier.

Infographic Design doesn't need to be difficult. If you're a content marketer, follow these 5 steps and make your own infographics in minutes!

The rest of the world has a lot to learn from the design of the U.K. wall plug.

People of all classes, races and religions come and go in intense and complex Nehru Place. But while Delhi’s electronics market is every urbanist’s dream, it is not the sort of space most cities are building

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Once upon a time, Apple was known for designing easy-to-use, easy-to-understand products. It was a champion of the graphical user interface, where it is always possible to discover what actions are possible, clearly see how to select that action, receive unambiguous feedback as to the results of that action, and have the power to reverse that action—to undo it—if the result is not what was intended.

For years, Apple followed user-centered design principles. Then something went wrong. By Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini.

FCC Arquitectura, along with interior designer Paulo Lobo, have designed the Cella Bar, in Madalena, Portugal.

Meet the pioneers of graphic design.

Master the use of blurred images and bring new life to your designs.