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Month: April 2018

Paseo Bandera: Newly Pedestrianized Street in Chile is One Big Work of Art

One of Santiago, Chile's most congested streets became a colorful pedestrian promenade full of urban art after a 30-day transformation led by artist Dasic Fernández. Now, the city is fighting to ...

Touchable Typeface: Ingenious Fonts Combine Visual & Braille Characters

Braille type is often included as alongside conventional letters, but "Braille Neue" typesets blend both visible and tangible characters in the same space, creating hybrid alphabets that anyone ...

The Darkest Building on Earth: An Olympic Pavilion Coated in Vantablack

There are mysterious and maybe slightly creepy black buildings, and then there are the blackest of black buildings made from the light-absorbing pigment known as Vantablack. Architect Asif Khan ...

High Feline Design: 10 Modern Homes with Built-In Cat Friendly Features

The owners of these feline-focused houses understand that humans don't own cats - it's the other way around. They commissioned interior designers and architects to build cat walkways, window ...

Reconstructing Ruins: Gifs Reanimate 7 Ancient Architectural Wonders

To visitors, architectural ruins are simply a modern reality, and their imagined reconstruction is left to descriptive plaques, statics images and the human imagination, but this series of ...

Just Your Type: These 15 Typographic Projects Have Lots of Character

Typefaces get the graphic treatment with art and design projects that infuse lettering with fun and functionality alike, from 'Braille Neue' to specific typefaces rendered as dog breeds. What ...

You’re Fired: 10 Famed Flamed Statues & Monuments

Gone up in flames and burned down to the ground – these 10 well-known statues, monuments and large-scale advertisements all fell to fire, if not fury. “I like big fat men like you,” ...

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