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Satirical maps of the world
Objective geographical representation isn’t always the intention of maps – they can also provide social, economic or political commentary on a region, as British Library maps curator, Tom Harper discusses.
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Chiangmai Life Architects builds bamboo sports hall in Thailand.
This bamboo sports hall for a school in Thailand utilizes prefabricated trusses to span more than 17 meters without steel reinforcements or connections.
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When TV Logos Were Physical Objects
It goes without saying that nearly everything made with graphic design and video software was once produced using a physical process, from newspapers to TV Logos. But some TV stations and film studios took things even further and designed physical logos that were filmed to create dynamic special effects. Arguably the most famous of which is MGM’s Leo the Lion which first appeared in 1916 and would go on to include 7 different lions over the decades.
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Saving the art and home of Mary Nohl, whose neighbors called her a witch.
Mary Nohl (1914–2001) was a wood-carver, painter, sculptor, ceramist, printmaker, potter, writer, illustrator, and jeweler. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is restoring the Wisconsin art environment of Mary Nohl to what it looked like around 1998, when it was filled with art from floor to ceiling.
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The Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet Should Raise Property Values For 200 Miles In Any Direction
Mercedes-Maybach unveiled a cabriolet version of its Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 concept from last year, all there is to say about it really is that it looks like money. A lot of money.
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Aqueducts: Quenching Rome’s Thirst
Ancient masters of engineering, aqueduct builders created a vast network of pipes, channels, and bridges to bring water to Rome, creating in the process an enduring symbol of Roman civilization and innovation.
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Marc Goodwin photographs Ningbo's construction sites.
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This Probe Might Investigate the Mysterious Ocean of Saturn's Biggest Moon
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is kind of like what you’d expect if Salvador Dali designed a planet. It has methane lakes, electrically charged sand, and allegedly, an ocean hiding under its crust. While the Cassini and Huygens spacecraft have revealed some of these mysteries to us, so many lingering questions about this weirdo moon remain.
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Clothes That Don’t Need You
What kind of artist is Rei Kawakubo? Let’s call her a combinatory formalist. She is unusually adept at combining the many disparate influences that course through her designs into unlikely, arresting, contrapuntal compositions. She is first of all a creator of images—of pictures liberated from their original settings, and in this she belongs with the Pictures Generation, that group of mediacentric artists who were among her first devotees. Fashion is the place where the associative, imagistic mind can run riot with impunity; it’s a postmodernist playground. By David Salle.
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Multifunctional bed designed as the ultimate adult playground you'll never want to leave.
We've all heard of a bed so comfortable you never want to leave, but what about a bed that's super functional? We've found the ultimate bed, one that not only looks cool, but is packed with ingenious design features.
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The Six Basic Elements of a Logo Design
A logo- the most important and fundamental part of building up a brand's identity, revolves around a set of rules. The rules provide a basic ground to establish the design for making it appropriate. Read more below
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Design Strategies to Build a Global Brand
Launching a brand and hoping to become the jack-of-all-trades within a blink is totally an unusual and impractical thought. Let's discuss this deeper in the article below:
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Branded in Memory
The logos of global corporations like Apple, Starbucks, and Foot Locker are designed to create instant brand associations in the minds of billions who see them every day. But how accurately can we remember the features and colors of these famous symbols?
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Why Don't Movie Poster Names EVER Line Up?!
We need to talk about this worldwide epidemic. Give me a few minutes, and I'll explain.
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defining authentic design within today's digitally-driven age
at a time when technology advancements are changing the meaning of originality, experts within the field of design try to redefine what makes an authentic.
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‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster.
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Can Refrigerants Be Sexy?
I was struck by two questions whilst attending a lecture on the Montreal Protocol, a landmark international environmental treaty that banned chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone depleting chemicals. One, can refrigerants be a sexy issue? And two, do they need to be? An issue is sexy when it is popular, easy to talk about, conjures a lot of buzzwords, etc. And refrigerants….? Perhaps bike sharing or clean-burning cookstoves are sexy topics, but refrigerants lack in that category.
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Forty of the Creepiest Book Covers of All Time
Open If You Dare. By Emily Temple.
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The Complicated Quest To Redesign Braille
ELIA Frames is a new tactile reading system that claims to be easier to learn than braille. Is it necessary? By Meg Miller.
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Re-designing the smartphone Dial-Pad
A UX research project to re-think the touchscreen smartphone dial-pad.
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