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How to Hire a Cartoonist to Make Your Blog Less Boring
With no idea what I was doing, I hired a cartoonist to illustrate my blog. The results were surprisingly positive.
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Living green walls: Their benefits and how they're made.
Living green walls may have gotten their start 80 years ago, but they’ve recently become some of the most striking and important eco-friendly features in buildings across the world.
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Evan Spiegel doubles down on new Snapchat redesign, says complaints only 'validate' changes
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is not fazed by the uproar over his new redesign. Speaking to investors at the Goldman Sachs' Technology and Internet conference on Thursday, Spiegel said that he personally prefers the new version and thinks that users will like it too once they have had time to learn to use the new features.
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Why Do Google, Airbnb, And Pinterest All Have Such Similar Logos?
Why do so many tech companies’ logos look the same? From Google and Airbnb to Spotify and Pinterest, these companies have gradually shifted their branding from idiosyncratic typefaces to remarkably similar sans-serif fonts. This month, a viral tweet from the type studio Oh No Type Co compared those four companies’ former and current logos, demonstrating how alike each company’s current branding looks.
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A futuristic circular hotel glows under the aurora borealis.
The new hotel will be the world’s first ‘Powerhouse’ hotel in the Arctic circle, producing its own energy while simultaneously reducing its energy needs.
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Latest Stocking Stuffer
Affordable gifts for sensible people.
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Decoding the Design History of Your Coffee Cup Lid
It's a modern marvel.
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Vertical forest: An urban treehouse that protect residents from air and noise pollution.
The undulating structure creates a transition from outdoors to in, holding 150 trees that absorb close to 200,000 liters of carbon dioxide an hour. This natural absorption brings pollution protection to its residents, helping to eliminate harmful gasses caused by cars and harsh sounds from the bustling streets outside. The trees’ seasonal progression also creates the ideal microclimate inside the building, steadying temperature extremes during the cold and warmer months. The plants’ full foliage block rays of sun during the summer while letting in warm light during the winter.
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Google's Chrome OS is getting a design refresh later this year
Google's Chrome OS is getting a design refresh in future updates, pushing it closer to Google's new design language which made its debut in Android P. On developer builds of Chrome OS, the firm has made several tweaks to prominent aspects of the interface, including the system tray, wallpaper picker, and keyboard shortcuts overlay. Earlier this year, the firm added a dark theme to its system tray. This week, it followed up with an Android P inspired design refresh to the same.
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From the Editor's Desk: Display notches are fine, but companies are doing a horrible job justifying them
It was all foreshadowed last year by the Essential Phone, and kicked into the public consciousness with the iPhone X. The notches are here to stay, and 2018 will be the year where notched displays are the norm rather the exception. ASUS cringingly revealed its ZenFone 5 back at MWC. The new Huawei P20 and P20 Pro have notches on two different display aspect ratios. OnePlus chose to straight-up pre-announce that the OnePlus 6 will have a notch before it unveiled the phone. It's all but confirmed that LG's 2018 flagship will have the same.
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This Is A Golden Age For Activist Design
So suggests first major museum show dedicated to protest art in the age of Brexit and Trump. By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan.
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The Overlooked Wonders of Soviet-Era Industrial Design
Space-themed vacuum cleaners, and more.
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The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font
Just you try designing 13,000-plus intricate character shapes that all have to balance one another.
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The Airplane Saddle Is A Standing Seat For Super-Economy Flights
Howdy, pardner, please buckle your seatbelt and put your phone on airplane mode.
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Porsche Design told Huawei "No Notch" for the Huawei Mate RS
Porsche Design and Huawei’s latest lovechild is a smartphone that you will probably never own because it costs $1,880. The Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS, as the branding suggests, is a luxury smartphone that was unveiled along with the Huawei P20 series. Like the Huawei Mate 10 Pro and P20 Pro, the Mate RS features the HiSilicon Kirin 970 and 6GB of RAM. The premium price tag comes from the fact that it was designed in collaboration with Porsche Design...
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Robot paints two-story mural in downtown San Jose.
Meet Lisa, an amazing artBot. Lisa specializes in painting murals on large scale canvas. From urban walls to buildings, tunnels, storage tanks, and public infrastructure, Lisa will make it beautiful. In fact, the larger the canvas and more complex the mural, the higher her performance.
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What is beauty if not a jolt that awakens us to the world?
Rather than a golden ratio or a moral judgment, beauty is more like a radical jolt that awakens us to the world, By Shahidha Bari.
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Mercedes X-Class By Carlex Design Is The Maybach Of Pickup Trucks
The Mercedes X-Class is arguably the most luxurious pickup truck to date, but the folks over at Carlex Design decided to kick things up a notch by giving the posh workhorse the Maybach treatment. The front grille and wheels were taken straight from the limited-edition S650 Cabriolet, while on the inside there’s the same Nappa Porzellan leather upholstery found in the most recent Maybach-branded models.
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Calendar Printing 4u Celebrates 10 Years of Success and Innovation
Calendar Printing 4u marks its 10 years in the business of customization and branding.
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“Our Main Motivation Has Always Been to Troll Donald Trump,” Says Trump Baby Balloon Designer
We spoke with designer Matt Bonner who "birthed" Trump Baby about his grand political aspirations for his newborn, gassy blimp.
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