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Month: August 2017

Warming Signs: Clet Abraham Rewrites Rules Of The Road

Guerrilla street artist Clet Abraham may be the Banksy of the boulevard, hacking road signs with stickers and encouraging people to question authority. Our lead image dated August 31st of 2013 ...

Plug & Plop: Urban Add-Ons Turn Street-Side Bollards into Seats & Tables

Designed to act as barriers, bollards are a common sight in cities around the world -- but what if they could engage rather than just separate? This series of simple additions from ...

World’s Longest Pedestrian Suspension Bridge Stretches Over 1,000 Feet

Three hundred feet above the valley floor, a suspension bridge gently sways and bobs as pedestrians cross its 1,621-foot length through the Swiss Alps. These impressive stats have helped the ...

Future Fonts: Tracing the Role of Typography in Science Fiction in Films

Whether intentionally retro, as in Stranger Things, or overtly futuristic, as in RoboCop, the role of typography in a movie goes well past the title, subtly but powerfully shaping the world ...

Anime Architecture: Exhibition Showcases Japan’s Fictional Buildings

Visions of fictional cities - whether optimistic, realistic, fantastical or dystopian - tend to take on a haze of mystery and grandiosity in Japanese anime, as epitomized in 'Ghost in the Shell.' ...

Art of Wearable Tech: 10 Fashionable Designs Help with Fun, Sex & Self-Defense

Not all wearable tech has to be a tiny smartphone on your wrist or a device that tracks how many steps you've taken - it can also record your memories as you see them, visibly react to your ...

California City: The Half-Built Desert Metropolis of the Golden State

It's the third-largest city in California by land area but most people (including many in CA) have never even heard of this mostly-empty desert oasis, home to around 15,000 people. It's not quite ...

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