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+15 +1This Odd-Looking Clothing Is Designed to Help Autistic Kids
Sensewear isn't ordinary apparel. It's a wild-looking line of prototype clothing designed to help treat people with sensory perception disorders.
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+15 +4We asked an expert to guide us through New Zealand's 40 new flag designs
Vexillologist (scholar of flags) Ted Kaye tells us which design he would choose to represent the land of Kiwis.
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+11 +3Manual techniques used to produce furniture
Boca do Lobo design pieces are all handmade in Portugal with manual techniques that aren’t much used in this industrial world.
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+20 +8The Spork, Redesigned
The spork is sort of the ultimate kludge of a design. Take a spoon, put some tines at the end, and voila: you have an eating utensil that isn't quite as good as either half of its portmanteau. Things get even messier when you throw in a knife, resulting in the so-called splayd, or sporf. ("Sporf?" Horf.) Depending on how the blade is positioned, you either get half a knife shoved in your mouth, or you get a knife in the palm. Brilliant.
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+11 +150 Mesmerising Designs That Make The Most Of Negative Space
Less is more? Arguably, you could both agree and disagree, depending on what the situation is pertaining to. If you’re talking about cheese on your pizza versus interest on your credit card, the answer is obvious (unless you’re lactose intolerant, which makes this case a lose lose).
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+27 +39 Awesome Wall Murals That Make A Statement
Colorful murals from around the world. This mural in a restaurant in Finland, designed by Amerikka Design Office.
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+18 +2Sennep opens up its digital experiments for everyone to tinker with
Digital agency Sennep has long maintained that the key to its success is in experimentation; taking the time to play and try and test and tinker with the possibilities of digital. Sometimes it feeds into client work like projects for the "London Symphony Orchestra", sometimes it informs incredible self-initiated projects like the "Digital Dandelion". Now, Sennep has launched a new platform...
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+20 +4The Ault & Wiborg Poster Album
Ault and Wiborg's Art Nouveau lithographic poster ads. Color lithography was rapidly replacing letterpress in popular graphics and in a classic case of “at the right place at the right time” demand for Ault & Wiborg’s coal tar-based inks rose almost geometrically.
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+14 +2The visual artist who 'hijacked' the front page of her local newspaper
Newspapers are increasingly seen as outdated. But this MacArthur Fellow decided to rejuvenate her local paper by making it the canvas for her new visual art project.
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+18 +4Step Inside a Rad Waterfront Tower House in Louisiana
The Pond House, clocking in at 1,250 square feet, is also a net-zero energy home, meaning it produces more energy via its rooftop solar array than it uses.
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+26 +3Futuristic 3D Printed Piezoelectric Violins Are A Thing Now
The futuristic-looking 3D printed violin has been designed as part of a larger series called “MULTI,” a sonic installation that includes a variety of other instruments and, a bandshell/rack that holds the instruments when not in use.
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+37 +6Organizing books by color: Which camp are you in?
On shelves throughout the land, books are being organized not by topic or author but by the color of their spines. Color-blocking books is a design trend that began a dozen years ago at hotels and in design magazines but continues to grow in popularity. Although it’s a bit of a hot potato in the design world, it’s a popular topic on blogs and on Pinterest. DIYers stalk estate sales for old books, peeling off the jackets to see what color hides underneath.
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+14 +5Charger prototype finding its way to Model S
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+20 +3Chalk Artist Leon Keer Draws Playful Optical Illusions on the Street
There’s a secret to looking at Dutch chalk artist Leon Keer’s whimsical largescale drawings on the street. At ground level, one might mistake his puddle of melting gummy bears mourning their friend, ghosts chasing Pacman through a maze, or the excavation of a terracotta army of lego-men for abstract works of art.
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+22 +4Folding Steel: New Floating Staircase for a Refab Attic Space
The challenge: replace a standard skinny ladder leading up to an unfinished attic with working stairs ... but they must be able to wrap within the same limited confines of a tiny landing. The solution: an elegant folded sheet of steel.
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+19 +5Get Ready for The World's Tallest and Longest Slide
The 376-foot tall ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London will soon be home to the world's longest and tallest slide.
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+5 +2Sexism & Fonts
My five-year-old son asked me this question the day Positype released its promotional site for Lust Hedonist. The Lust Series, a self-described “overly indulgent attempt to infuse wanton sensuality in a typeface,” features a variety of formal contrasts: sharp and curvy serifs, thin counters combined with thick bodies. It is the work of Neil Summerour, known for his crowd-pleasing fonts and lettering, and it is striking.
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-1 +1Top shower tile ideas and designs to tiling a shower
The latest catalogue of shower tile ideas and shower tile designs, innovate ideas on how to tile a shower wall, tiling a shower with unique and modern shower tile patterns, colors, designs and materials, best bathroom shower tile ideas 2015
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+29 +345 Amazing Sites (and Resources) for Stirring Up Your Creativity
These are 45 amazing creativity resources that can stir up your creative instinct. If you need inspiration and motivation to take your product or business to the next-level, you will find these resources, ideas, projects, designs, videos, predictions and innovations useful.
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+21 +2iTunes Really Is That Bad
It’s not just unreliable. Apple’s signature media software makes bizarre, arbitrary design choices, which are uncharacteristic of the world’s most valuable company.
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