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How Gordon Parks Documented Racism In America
While on assignment for Life, Gordon Parks covered the chilling, brutal truth of racial and economic inequality in America. He was the magazine's first black staff photographer, and he shot his share...
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Your City's Architecture As Adorable Animated GIFs
The more you think about how buildings are constructed today, the more they become personified. They have character from their style and silhouette. Thanks to modern HVAC systems, they breathe. And...
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Virgin America Does April Fools' Right
The culture of logo and branding reveals has grown increasingly absurd in recent years. So absurd that Virgin America made it the butt of an April Fools' Day joke—and it's a damn good prank.In a video...
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Cheap Plastic Toys Spring To Life In Hypnotizing Kinetic Sculpture
A maestro of kinetic sculptures, Berlin-based media artist Nils Völker has elevated humble plastic bags and industrial building materials into living, breathing entities that hypnotize viewers. In his...
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A Charming Nightlight Co-Designed By Kids
Whether it's monsters lurking under the bed or the scariness of a darkened room, bedtime is fraught for many kids (and their fried parents). Designers Lisa Gerkens, Hanna Markgren, Emmi Pouta, and...
View ArticleThis Wristwatch Has No Hour Hand--Just A Subtly Shifting Color Gradient
Color gradients were one of the earliest computer design tools in programs like PowerPoint and Paint, offering amateurs an opportunity to channel their inner Albers. Now, Jiwoong Jung—a young...
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How West Elm Became An Unlikely Incubator Of Independent Design
Most independent designers would kill for a mass retailer to sell their work—unless it put them out of business. One of the harsh realities of partnering with large companies—which increasingly see...
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Ingenious Gag: Whoopee Cushions At A Furniture Fair
Milan hosts Salone del Mobile, the annual furniture trade show and design week, this month. Think of it as the furniture industry's CES or SXSW. While there's plenty to discover in the smaller...
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Get Free Housing Designs From A Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect
Befitting its reputation for socially driven architecture, Elemental—the Santiago, Chile–based firm of this year's Pritzker Prize laureate, Alejandro Aravena—has made plans for four of its low-cost...
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A Love Letter To Modernism's Most Mundane Buildings
Good architecture and so-so buildings can bear some of the same traits. For example, the Heydar Aliyev Center, completed in 2012 by Zaha Hadid (RIP), and The Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy, completed in...
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7 Gorgeous New Libraries That Aren't Just About Books
The public library is one of the greatest inventions of the modern age—a physical representation of the Enlightenment-era belief that citizens should be able to have free and equal access to knowledge....
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Using Code To Immortalize Ancient Architecture
The architectural tile work adorning Middle Eastern buildings is some of the most visually arresting in the world. Composed of ornate, tessalated geometric patterns and vivid colors, the complex...
View ArticleInteraction-Design Students Imagine A Parallel Universe For Everyday Objects
We often dream about souped-up techy products and think about all of the ways they can improve our lives. In a role-reversal exercise, students at the prestigious Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne...
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The Best Of Milan Design Week: Sou Fujimoto's Infinite Forest Of Light
Check us out on Instagram for more coverage of Milan Design Week.The biggest showstopper at Milan Design Week this year was Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto's "Forest of Light" installation for the...
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This Company Protects A Threatened African Cow By Turning Its Horn Into...
As a member of Uganda's Bahima tribe, Olivia Byanyima carries a deep reverence for the African Ankole cow. "Our culture revolves around this animal," she says. But in recent years the number of...
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In Milan, A Tantalizing Glimpse At The Future Of Your Living Room
Gorgeous furniture is only half of Milan Design Week, the largest, most prestigious design fair of the year. The other half? Head-scratching conceptual projects and design experiments that push the...
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5 Transformable Furnishings For Small Spaces
At the Milan Furniture Fair, perennial Co.Design favorite Campeggi unveiled five new designs that transform or pack flat—a trend that responds to swelling numbers of urban residents who demand...
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The True Story Of Milton Glaser's Best Client
Enter The 2016 Innovation By Design Awards now through May 5!In 1986, Brooklyn Brewery founder Steve Hindy was on the hunt for the right designer to create an identity for his startup brewery. He...
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The 6 Brands That Got It Right At Milan Design Week
The Milan Furniture Fair, Salone del Mobile, started 55 years ago as an industry trade show. It has since morphed into a citywide design festival about consumer products and experimental design. It is...
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These Zaha Hadid Buildings Will Open Posthumously This Year
Though Zaha Hadid unexpectedly passed away on March 31, the prolific architect is still introducing new work to the world. Her firm, which will still operate under the name Zaha Hadid Architects, has...
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