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You’ve Got Tons Of Facebook Friends. So Why Are You Lonely? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
A fresh and subtly soul-wrenching visualization adds to the whole is-social-media-antisocial debate. It’s nothing we haven’t heard before: the modern human presented as a slave to Facebook likeage, a...
Design Fail: Why Isn’t There A Standard Way To Swipe A Credit Card? 27 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
The only thing universal about credit-card swipe infographics is that they’re unclear. Designers address the everyday misdirection. See if this sounds familiar: You’re swiping your credit card at a s...
A Video Tour of Caracas’s Skyscraper Slum Reveals Its Complexities 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Many have heard of Torre de David, but few have even been inside. This video gives a rare peek into the families who live there. La Torre de David, the unfinished 45-story skyscraper-turned-slum in t...
A Chic Leather Backpack, Just For Your Laptop 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Katharina Eisenkoeck’s sleek laptop case is crafted for carrying only the essentials. It’s hard to imagine, but as recently as the late 1960s there were no such things as backpacks. Hikers and climbe...
Never Load Paper Again With This Smarter Printer 26 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
Just place this printer right on top of a big stack of paper, and it’ll handle the rest. Twenty years ago, inkjet printers seemed like magic--they printed so many colors, so fast! Now they’re that ne...
Vogue Makes A Complete Joke Out Of Google, And Google Doesn’t Even Notice 26 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
Google Glass made it into Vogue’s esteemed September issue. But its treatment says a lot about how the fashion industry views the geek elite. Google Glass just scored a 12-page spread in Vogue’s Sept...
The Social Behavior Of Bacteria, Trippily Explored In Art 26 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
The advanced collective and social intelligence of bacteria colonies makes for some very psychedelic design. The invisible colony of bacteria that spreads its invisible biomass across a petri dish is...
A Clever Book Kids Need A Flashlight To Read 26 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
Remember hiding out reading a book under the covers after you were supposed to be in bed? This brilliant children’s book embraces that tradition. Reading after dark has lost a bit of its wonder. In t...
See The Tweets, Uploads, And Searches That Happen Every Second On The Web 26 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
"Every Second on the Internet" cleverly uses your screen real estate to make the sheer size of uploaded data make sense. Every second on the Internet, about 4,000 tweets are posted to Twitter. And ab...
How 500 Years Of Weird Condiment History Designed The Heinz Ketchup Bottle 26 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
From a 17th-century fish sauce, ketchup evolved into a patent medicine, a carcinogenic health hazard, and eventually, a non-Newtonian fluid. Here’s how ketchup’s rich history is reflected in the desig...
