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10 Home Features You Never Knew You Wanted
The whole point of buying a house is to make your mark on the place. You’ve shelled out the cash (or, more likely, taken out a mortgage) to get your own home, so naturally it…
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Our Favorite Craft Beer Logos
One of the most important decisions a new brewery will make is their logo. Design impacts how we perceive things, and you never get a second chance to make a first impression. The wrong logo can…
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12 Online Furniture Stores for Good-Looking, Affordable Furniture
When you’re in the market for new furniture and you’re not looking to break the bank, there are a few tried and true options that come to mind. But surely there have to be alternatives…
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The 9 Most Interesting Metro Cards Ever Released
New York City is one of the most art-influenced and art-influencing places in the entire world. Aside from being packed with museums, art houses, theaters, galleries, and music venues, it’s the kind of city whose…
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60 Years of Logos: Chermayeff & Geismar
Only a couple of days ago, we shared with you Identity, a new book profiling the legendary design firm of Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. Well get ready for another dose of epic logo design because…
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‘Identity’ Profiles One of the Most Legendary Design Firms
For the uninitiated, Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv is a New York-based design firm that’s responsible for some of the most iconic logos you see every day. What logos? NBC. PBS. Showtime. Mobil. Chase Bank.…
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The Electronic Alphabet Features Some of the Most Well-Known Brands
Vinicius Araujo is a Rio de Janeiro-based designer who has taken a collection of well-known brands and turned them into a font. While it’s not exactly usable for drafting a Word document, it is fun…
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‘Gadgets, Games and Gizmos’ Shares the the Blueprints for Famous Inventions
Every great invention starts as a simple idea. That simple idea needs to be conveyed to others, and that’s where sketches and blueprints come in. Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: 122 Inventions that Changed the World is…
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Famous Brand Logos Redesigned to Use Less Ink
You can’t buy a coffee, put on a pair of sneakers, have a quick meal or walk more than a few blocks in most cities without being exposed to the logos of some of the world’s…
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The Best Book Covers of 2016
If you were to judge a book by its cover, each of these would win the Pulitzer. AIGA Design Archive, which has been cataloging great design since the ’20s, teamed up with Design Observer to crown the…
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The Office Building Made of 900 Plastic Chairs
Office buildings are always struggling to define themselves and when they finally achieve it, most of the time it’s after a multi-million dollar renovation. But sometimes, with a little creativity and budgeting, you can get…
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Absolut Hangsmart Makes Hanging Art Easy
When it comes to putting up art around your place, we’ve tried all the tips and tricks. Few of them work. Using a patented design, Absolut Hangsmart makes hanging art easy. The product itself might look…
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Bang & Olufsen’s New Speaker System Looks Like a Piece of Art
Bang & Olufsen is known for its consistent ability to produce sound systems with both great sound quality and outstanding design. Now, the BeoSound Shape system solves a problem you didn’t even know they had.…
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The Most Beautiful Beer Cans of 2017
The beer bottle is dying a slow death. Today’s hottest breweries are ditching the glass and turning to the convenience and portability of the can. While we’ve mentioned a few can designs we’ve loved in the…