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Downloadable Deco: Art Archive Puts 200 Graphic Design Classics Online

Some great institutions are becoming even greater in the digital age -- places like museums continue to scan high-quality paintings and photographs for distribution and agencies like NASA put ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now with More Minimalism: Brandless Brand Trademarks Bland White Boxes

Viral Silicon Valley controversies like those revolving around Juicero (a device that squeezed out juice) and Lyft (which seems to be reinventing the bus) are often held us as examples of how ...

Buildings as Backdrops: Playful Photography Humanizes Built Environments

People often play a small part in architectural photography and renderings - not so in this series of travel photographs, which would lovely but otherwise unremarkable without clever human ...

Russia Hour Traffic: Andrey Tkachenko’s Soviet Car Concepts

Russian freelance artist Andrey Tkachenko reveals the figurative swans hidden deep within the notoriously ugly ducklings of the Soviet automobile industry. “General Motors is not in ...

Graffiti by Drone: Team of Spray-Painting UAVs to Make Huge Mural in Berlin

Taking to the skies in Berlin, a set of color-coded drones aims to make the biggest spray-painted mural ever made (at least by robots) using unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with programmed ...

New IKEA Smart Home Fixtures Compatible with Google, Apple & Amazon

Furniture giant IKEA is making its new low-cost smart home fixtures voice-controllable can connect with ease to systems including Google Home, Apple HomeKit and Amazon Alexa. The company ...

Radbahn Berlin: 6-Mile Sheltered Bike Path to Run Under City Train Line

A long unused strip of space weaving through Berlin is set to become a bicycling boulevard, sheltered by the tracks above and lined with bike service stations, recreation areas and food ...

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