The London transport network has inspired a dazzling array of posters, designs and cartographic artwork for more than 100 years.
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We already know that Chicago is a great biking city. And it's not just bike-friendly when it comes to cycling for transportation or exercise. It can also be a fun way to explore the area's amazing sites.
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Water Discus Hotels comprise two discs – an underwater and above-water one. This combination will allow guests to admire the depths of the ocean while making the most of the warm climate.
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Seattle-based design firm Teague has designed every Boeing aircraft interior since the 1940s, from the post-WWII Stratocruiser to the 2009 Dreamliner.
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Museum is a new free museum that preserves the often overlooked, unseen, and forgotten treasures from the streets, stores, and people of the world, most prominently New York City.
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You don’t engineer your systems with the belief that none of your computers will ever break. That’s insane; you KNOW they’re going to break. So don’t assume that your users will never break the rules. Build in graceful failure as often as possible, whether you’re designing a user interface or a security policy.
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Turkish designer Gokhun Guneyhan came up with this set of photographic typography, pairing characteristic fonts with imagery to reflect the personality of each city.
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If your workload is on the heavy side, enlist these office robot buddies to help.
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Musician and Producer Gavin Hammond has many talents. One of them is to crawl around on his hometown’s streets whenever it pours in order to shoot pictures for his magnificent 'London in Puddles' series.
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'We now live in a world where information is potentially unlimited. Information is cheap, but meaning is expensive. Where is the meaning? Only human beings can tell you where it is. We’re extracting meaning from our minds and our own lives.'
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Some of them are even available to purchase, but even if the one you like best isn’t for sale, we daresay you’ll get some decorating ideas — or at least a yen to pick up your favorite novel.
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A corporate logo serves to establish an identity and relationship for the company and its products with its target customers. The corporate logo form design and colors are usually preserved over many years to build instant customer recall.
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After digitalizing the model and have reconstructed it in 3D with Blender 3D, an open source software, Bert Simons print every part of the head cut into polygons, and assembles them like a paper toy.
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As fashion and art collide with the multitude of artist-fashion collaborations and museum exhibitions, the line between the two becomes more blurred.
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Do monolithic slabs of roughly-finished concrete make you go weak at the knees? If so, you are going to enjoy this particular Top 10 very much indeed.
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You've seen the work of matte painter Wayne Haag in Lord of the Rings, Farscape and The Fifth Element, among many other works.
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One of our favorite handheld devices gets super-sized with this iPhone-shaped coffee table from CustomMade Artisan Kyle Buckner Designs. Though a little strange, this giant iTable is constructed to work just like an iPhone dock, which makes it as useful as it is unique.
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Fontana Modern Masters was a highly collectible series of books - not just for their opinionated content on the likes of Marx or Proust, Mailer or McLuhan, but because of Oliver Bevan’s fabulous cover designs.
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Some great photography by Cali-based Marc Shur, an ongoing photo project called 'Sign Language', a photo series of vintage signs.
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It was invented in 1899. It hasn’t been improved upon since.
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Economic instability in Greece could soon force the country out of the eurozone, which means it will need to print a new currency – four artists decide to help them out.
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Belgian artist Ben Heine blends photography and pencil sketches to create imaginary scenes. He explains: 'I find a location, do a drawing, then take a photo to combine with the drawing.'
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American architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have designed a skyscraper with glazed triangular facets for emerging commercial centre the Yongsan International Business District of Seoul.
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With respect to the environmental movement, I’ll admit that most of my career has been more focused on paying the bills. But I got my green design certification; so while I’m not the world’s expert, I do my part.
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'Architecture is now disconnected from other disciplines and the rest of humanity,' says Barbara Stewart.
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