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FOUR THINGS I'VE LEARNED ABOUT DESIGNERS...

For the last two years, I’ve been doing to designers what they usually do unto others. Which is to...

Dec 2nd

“To drift is to attempt analysis of the totality of everyday...”
— Guy Debord

Dec 2nd

Maybe my favorite place from a recent road trip to Memphis...

Dec 2nd

“When I read contracts with random sections in ALL CAPS, I...”
— H_FJ

Dec 1st

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OK GO - WTF Related: Oliver Laric - Aircondition (2006)

Dec 1st

Santa Fe Institute One of the coolest things about Cormac...

Dec 1st

Cormac McCarthy’s Olivetti Christie’s, which plans to...

Dec 1st

On World AIDS Day, Take Time to Reimagine the...

Dec 1st

An average of all the world’s countries’ flags...

Dec 1st

eBay Maps Out Black Friday Online Transactions

Dec 1st

Nuage Vert “Green Cloud” Illuminates Emissions (via...

Nov 30th

But for those that love produce stickers (which are edible...

Nov 30th

Low-Energy Laser Etching Could Replace Annoying Fruit Labels

Nov 30th

Pollsh Space Stamps, 1963

Nov 30th

Indigo’s Chief Booklover Heather Reisman sits down...

Nov 30th

The 100-Mile Thanksgiving - Design Observer

Nov 29th

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no strings attached by Pascal Sisto

Nov 29th

ONT (via mikedudekmike)

Nov 28th

Characters for an Epic Tale

Nov 28th

I love Maria Kalman. Back to the Land - And the Pursuit of...

Nov 27th

“A new decade’s breaking, and in it, people, companies,...”
— Another great post from Umair...

Nov 26th

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- you gotta try this! Ultimate fun! - Chat with a stranger! Connecting to server… Looking for...

Nov 26th

Unity3D indie version is now free!!

Nov 26th

Motion chart - Add to your homepage Gapminder Tool for Your...

Nov 26th

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Nov 26th

when a grainy photo of a projected presentation is possibly...

Nov 26th

“C.E.O. Libraries Reveal Keys to Success”
— “Don’t follow your mentors,...

Nov 26th

First day of Hajj pilgrimage (via BBC News - In pictures:...

Nov 26th

R2-D2 discovered in new Star Trek movie

Nov 26th

10 Amazing Staircases Around the Globe - Oddee.com

Nov 25th

Briefing on 2010 by trendwatching.com And here’s...

Nov 25th

“My font nerdiness makes me have bad reactions to things that...”
— Design - Mistakes in...

Nov 25th

OmmWriter - interesting new writing tool… Might work...

Nov 25th

Bruce Mau Design Power to the People

Nov 25th

Imagine, Connect, Act: Idealist.org's...

Nov 24th

time bomb [Im Hoelzernen Himmel] sphere with a diameter of...

Nov 24th

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The brainchild of celebrity photographer Jeremy Coward, Help-Portrait is a movement of...

Nov 24th

Book Review: Glimmer, by Warren Berger - Core77

Nov 24th

The Walrus » Bruce Mau, Design & Optimism »...

Nov 24th

Find higher resolution image here.

Nov 24th

Illustrator Secret: If you hold option while clicking in the...

Nov 23rd

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Go see this. It is awesome.

Nov 23rd

Ladies, take note: women’s fall & winter...

Nov 23rd

One Million Years of Isolation

Nov 23rd

Coke’s new eco-bottle: Is it the real thing? -...

Nov 23rd

The cost of getting sick.

Nov 23rd

“On the back of seven million MetroCards distributed this...”
— http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/...

Nov 23rd

Stefan Sagmeister interviewed by Debbie...

Nov 23rd

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One Fast Move Or I’m Gone - Kerouac’s Big Sur

Nov 22nd

i have a 3d camera

Nov 22nd

WNYC - Radiolab Killing Babies, Saving the World Amazing....

Nov 21st

“Jeanne-Claude, 74, American artist and resident of...

Nov 20th

Wired Backs Internet for Nobel Peace Prize

Nov 20th

“We’re not scanning all those books to be read by...”
— Google Thread Walking...

Nov 20th

Google to Add Captions, Improving YouTube...

Nov 20th

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BMD's swedish senior designer Carolina...

Nov 19th

A Talk With Thom Mayne - Yet another reason to move to New...

Nov 19th

"The unicorns don’t look realistic enough."

Nov 19th

side by side, Nato Fukasawa masterpiece the Muji CD-Player...

Nov 19th

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Clients From Hell is a collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from...

Nov 19th

Just came across this BP gas station in CA by Office dA: BP...

Nov 19th

“The pharmacist gives you a prescription, but says make sure...”
— Waterlife - Really sweet...

Nov 19th

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Prom Night In Mississippi -> New doc by Morgan Freeman. In 1997, Morgan Freeman offered to pay...

Nov 19th

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Bottle Bank Arcade! more from The Fun Theory

Nov 19th

«Save paper, save trees» Application In 2008 DDB Germany developed a little application with a...

Nov 18th

Ben Fry’s Traces Project. Visualizing, somewhat...

Nov 18th

Odd Building, Odd Logo - Brand New Paul, is this an...

Nov 18th

“You may have noticed that I used the language of war above....”
— Terry O’Reilly - via Chris

Nov 18th

Flag illustrations encountered on Marta Cerda’s...

Nov 18th

GOOD Magazine’s overview of the upcoming UN Climate...

Nov 18th

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Visualizing the decline of empires

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“The All Seeing Eye” by acclaimed director Michel Gondry and artist Pierre Bismuth. Gondry and...

Nov 18th

New Art Gallery of Alberta redesign by Randall Stout....

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Nov 18th

Solving the Project Paradox: Workshop next...

Nov 18th

Design Maps combine the Google Maps with Dexigner’s...

Nov 18th

Spotted these Linus bikes in LA… So simple. So sweet....

Nov 18th

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Daphne - Losing My Religion Not really sure why I’m posting this here… but I...

Nov 17th

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Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured...

Nov 17th

Visualizing RFID fields…

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Dedicated to showcasing the very best Canada has to offer, the Canadian Tourism Federation serves to...

Nov 17th

Paul Nicklen's Unbelievable Leopard Seal...

Nov 17th

‘We Love Typography’ is an image, video,...

Nov 17th

The Best Grilled Cheese Sandwich in Toronto - Just in time...

Nov 17th

“In 2008, Mexican scientists discovered a method to transform...”
— Tequila - Wikipedia, the free...

Nov 17th

“Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to...”
— Marshall McLuhan

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Nov 17th

NASA PlanetQuest Historic Timeline

Nov 17th

the cure-all.

Nov 17th

LUNCH WITH M. Undercover with a Michelin inspector. (via The...

Nov 17th

Technology Review: Mimicking the Building Prowess of Nature

Nov 17th

The Leonid meteors — dubbed “cosmic...

Nov 17th

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
— Kurt Vonnegut

Nov 17th

“David Karp is 23 and the founder and creator of Tumblr, and...”
— I’LL TUMBLR FOR YA « ...

Nov 17th

How Many People Are In Space Right Now?

Nov 16th

The Cult of Done Manifesto, by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark ...

Nov 16th

via caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de

Nov 16th

“On Tuesday 3 November, a bird carrying a baguette bread...”
— News | CERN users’ pages

Nov 16th

Mayang's Free Textures

Nov 16th

And on the topic of incredibly complex stuff made out of...

Nov 15th

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LHC pop-up book: http://atlas.ch/popupbook/ “Just pull the tab to bring particles into...

Nov 15th

Bruce Mau’s northern exposure - The Globe and Mail

Nov 15th

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Magnetic Movie on Vimeo (via Vimeo) The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as...

Nov 15th

A Mountain Eroding Wyoming (via mikedudekmike)

Nov 15th

Music - Design Agency Manchester

Nov 15th

Design Assembly  » Blog Archive  » The poor man’s...

Nov 15th

Paul Rand: Conversations with students (Monoscope)

Nov 15th

'Make My Logo Bigger' Cream

Nov 13th

New site is up

Nov 13th

H&FJ News | Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Nov 13th

Latest Picture of Earth is Haunting This gorgeous image...

Nov 13th

NASA - NASA Ames Scientist Develops Cell Phone Chemical...

Nov 13th

“I’m interested in the moment when two objects collide...”
— Bruce Mau ...

Nov 13th

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russell davies

Nov 13th

I can barely begin to explain how cool the Miniatur...

Nov 13th

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Process, process, process.

Nov 13th

Printershake/Earthquake - today and tomorrow

Nov 12th

“If they see that we are investing in the future, if they...”
— ‘You need to make it...

Nov 12th

Why the green movement has failed to inspire—and why it’s...

Nov 12th

cyoa · the cave of time Amazing work charting our childhood...

Nov 12th

Sudbury at dusk.

Nov 12th

From The Nonist: “This cylindrical object is a roughly...

Nov 12th

The coolest "type" clock you'll ever see.

Nov 12th

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And one more from Lernert & Sander From a documentary series in which 9 abstract artists...

Nov 12th

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it took me the whole video to figure out what they’re doing.

Nov 12th

FontShop: 20 Years

Nov 11th

The Purpose Prize: To invest in people over...

Nov 11th

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Alex Bogusky live now on FearLess Q+A…

Nov 11th

Super smart and beautiful. Murakami concept rocking chair...

Nov 11th

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Tom Fords directorial debut. via: kottke.org

Nov 11th

Asger Carlsen - Photographer

Nov 11th

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Saw this on Boing Boing. Its our main man Ray Kurzweil as an early inventor and pianist. (via...

Nov 11th

The Last Campaign: How Experiences Are...

Nov 11th

(I hate) Dust Jackets

The earliest dust jackets, dating to the 1830s, encased the entire book. Their primary function was...

Nov 10th

The U.S. government has poured $100 billion of stimulus...

Nov 10th

Awesome realtime visualisation of 20,000 popular apps...

Nov 10th

In Japan…Even the barcodes are well designed!

Nov 10th

“Average vehicle speeds on the valley highways are...

Nov 10th

prada marfa off hwy 90

Nov 10th

i love waffle (house signage)

Nov 10th

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Lava Project on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Nov 10th

“We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They...”
— Oscar Niemeyer - but does it...

Nov 10th

The Jobless Rate for People Like You

Nov 10th

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Chief Booklover Heather Reisman, designer Bruce Mau and author Warren Berger discuss Glimmer.

Nov 10th

charitybuzz | do good - live well

Nov 9th

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fun new Jarvis Cocker video… side note: this past May, Jarvis and his band Pulp set up shop...

Nov 9th

by Liu Bolin This artist has been posted before.. but this...

Nov 8th

Pan Am in the West Don Lands.

Nov 7th

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Thinking Outside Sudbury: Bruce Mau on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Nov 6th

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Storefront for Art and Architecture | Pike Loop, a Robot-Built Installation in NYC What to do with...

Nov 6th

“It’s the question: what is important, what is not...”
— Age of the Informavore - Boing...

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When you need to just kick back and relax.

Nov 6th

The TEDGlobal Program Guide | Blog | design mind

Nov 6th

Cosmic Latté - The Average Color of the Universe

Nov 6th

An Te Liu: Board Games (Leona Drive Project) My thesis...

Nov 6th

“Disease is more complicated than just a few toxic...

Nov 5th

Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds

Nov 5th

Cell Size and Scale

Nov 5th

How Many People Are In Space Right Now?

Nov 5th

By Richard Box Realized in February 2004, the project...

Nov 5th

Facebook Offices in Paulo Alto, CA more photos after...

Nov 5th

Supernatural collective nouns… ky, this has your name...

Nov 5th

Exactitudes. “Rotterdam-based photographer Ari...

Nov 5th

BBC News | Audio slideshow: Breathing In

Nov 5th

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let’s get this… from Zebra Imaging in Texas

Nov 4th

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Musical road in Lancaster, CA by Honda. Grooves cut in the asphalt at intervals create audible...

Nov 4th

Invisibility cloak materials made from reflective...

Nov 4th

since we’re on the paper heads thing…...

Nov 4th

The Botany of Desire | PBS Video

Nov 4th

“About the book you’re right. It is stalled out, in...”
— Shop talk with Michael Turner...

Nov 4th

Paper-craft head costume

Nov 4th

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(in the old news department) Windows 7 is out, but I just found these animations Demetri Martin did...

Nov 4th

Pretty cool! 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin...

Nov 4th

“…but tonight they glittered like sinners.”
— Devil on My Shoulder - This...

Nov 3rd

“Sun glitter can be bright enough to damage one’s eyes....”
— Sun glitter - Wikipedia, the...

Nov 3rd

IN AN ABSOLUT WORLD

Nov 3rd

100K ArtScience Innovation Prize

Nov 3rd

paper tastebuds  » Blog Archive  » map cuts by...

Nov 3rd

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since you’ve started this thread, Mike… Carl Sagan - ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft...

Nov 3rd

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Music video that shows the global networks of materials and information that we count on, everyday.

Nov 2nd

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The Symphony of Science - Spreading scientific knowledge and philosophy through music

Nov 2nd

Cities worldwide are rediscovering and...

Nov 2nd

“We’re putting tools into the hands of millions of...”
— A new way of looking at the...

Nov 2nd

Bruce Mau’s Latest Design Is BS - BusinessWeek

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10 tactics for turning information into action shows how rights advocates around the world have used...

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Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing...

Nov 2nd