Clever Negative-Space Package Design Wins London’s Design Museum “Design of the Year 2013”
Here’s a brilliant example of how a couple is using design, and cleverly exploiting an existing system, to do some Continue reading
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Kids from around the world photographed with their favorite things
Gabriele Galimberti takes photos of kids with their most prized possessions. But how they play can reveal a lot. “The Continue reading
George Orwell on Politics and the English Language
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts …
The Home Office of the 21st Century
In a report from 1967, Walter Cronkite takes us on a brief tour of what they imagined the home office would be like in the 2000s. In the 21st century, it may be that no home will be complete without a computerized communications console. Cronkite …
Joseph Stalin, 1949, and Joseph Stalin, 1956
Not content to leave his stamp on the architecture of the Soviet Union, Stalin also like it have his own image displayed in suitably monumental form, particularly in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe after their ‘liberation’ by the Red Ar…
Totalitarian Architecture of the Soviet Union
From Constructivism to Gigantism, From Extreme Ornamentation to Brutalism (and very little soul)Unapologetic in their colossal scale and glorification of the totalitarian state, these gigantic structures dominate urban landscapes of the former Eas…
Please Don’t Help My Kids
Dear Other Parents At The Park: Please do not lift my daughters to the top of the ladder, especially after you’ve just heard me tell them I wasn’t going to do it for them and encourage them to try it themselves. The article continues: They’re not …
Travel Times in the 1800s
From the 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, these maps paint the picture of transportation in the 1800s. Each line represents how far one could travel in some amount of time, starting from New York. For example, it took a…
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