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15 Artists Celebrate 150 Years Of The London Underground
Four key stations showcase the Tube-inspired posters of contemporary artists. When London’s Metropolitan Railway made its debut way back in 1863, the steam-powered trains offered a novel way of navigating the city. Now, over a billion locals and tourists depend on the Tube to efficiently (as possible) take them between the network’s 250 stations. Show More Summary
These Are Some Of The 68 Million People McDonald’s Serves Every Day
A photographer found himself people watching at McDonald’s and came away with a Supersize photo essay. Americans on average consume nearly 30 pounds of French fries a year. Fried spuds don’t make a meal on their own: We also eat about three hamburgers a week, averaging 156 burgers per person a year (that’s more than 48 billion meaty hockey pucks). Show More Summary
Braun Reissues A Dieter Rams Design Classic: The ET 66 Calculator
The classic adding machine--inspiration for the iPhone calculator app--can be yours again. It’s no secret that many of Apple’s products over the last decade have been deeply indebted to the designs of Dieter Rams. Less known, perhaps, is the fact that many of Apple’s apps have borrowed from the master, too. Show More Summary
A Web Series For Kids Aims To Be The “Elmo for Engineering”
Limor Fried created "Circuit Playground" in order to get young kids interested in hacking and making--REALLY young. It’s hard to beat classic episodes of Sesame Street for timeless, near-universal educational appeal, but engineer and Adafruit Industries founder Limor Fried still saw an unmet need in the educational-video space. Show More Summary
A Skyscraper-Style Treehouse With Soaring Mountain Views
The Tower House, designed by GLUCK+ Architects, reflects back the forest canopy. Architects like wordplay. It’s a fun and effective way to condense the main thesis behind a project without resorting to archi-speak. It’s also a good bit of marketing. Show More Summary
A Beautiful, Unbreakable French Press Made From A Mason Jar
So long, shattered glass! The Portland Press comes with a lifetime guarantee. You don’t have to be a coffee snob to know that French presses are delicate. Anyone who’s ever so much as picked up one of the java brewers knows that the glass beakers are incredibly, almost uncomfortably, thin. Show More Summary
Infographic: The Signature Cocktails Of Your Favorite Fictional Boozehounds
Ernest Hemingway once said, "A man does not exist until he is drunk." Sometimes, neither do literary characters. Don Draper drinks an Old Fashioned because he’s a man. Rocky Balboa drank his protein shakes--five raw eggs--for strength. Show More Summary
Today's archidose #678
Here are some photos of the Tchoban Foundation - Museum for Architectural Drawing (opening June 4, 2013) in Berlin, Germany, by SPEECH Tchoban&Kuznetsov; photographed by bcmng.
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Newsweek 2.0: A New Model For Online Magazines
Designed by Huge, the revamped, digital-only Newsweek aims to bring print mag qualities like cohesion and curation to the web. When it was announced last fall that Newsweek, after nearly 80 years as a weekly news magazine, would ditch...Show More Summary
The Man in the Pink Suit
Everywhere you look these days, dudes look like ladies. At the movies, Leonardo DiCaprio struts around West Egg like it was his personal runway in Jay Gatsby’s iconic pink suit and beautiful shirts. On television, Michael Douglas inherits Liberace’s feathered, bedazzled mantle in HBO’s Behind the Candelabra. Show More Summary
Experimental Lighting That Balances Like a See-Saw
Fort Standard’s debut lighting series put some experiments with physics to good use. It’s either the most grown up hanging mobile, or the most secretly playful piece of high end design. The Counterweight Mobile light mixes polished white...Show More Summary
This Pouch Ensures You Pay Attention To Your Date, Not Your Phone
Blokket blocks cell signals and keeps your phone screen hidden from view. Forget body language--the most effective, ultra-modern way to show someone that you’re into them, you respect them, or you genuinely enjoy their company is to keep your darn hands off your darn phone when you’re hanging out. Show More Summary
Photorealistic Mug Shots That Are Woven On A Loom
Joanne Arnett re-creates those guilt-filled moments experienced by professional criminals and celebrities alike. There is no great shortage of mug shots on the Internet. Criminal photos of 19th-century bank robbers are blogged alongside those of contemporary celebrities, proving that our interest in the guilty is wholly pervasive. Show More Summary
Tuesday, Tuesday
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates:
This week's dose features The Public Theater in New York City by Ennead Architects:
The featured past dose is Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas by Ennead Architects:
This week's book review...Show More Summary
Infographic: An Interactive Guide To The Recurring Jokes On “Arrested Development”
Season 4 is just around the corner! Here’s a refresher on all the cleverness that came before. This week marks the final countdown, so to speak, for die-hard Arrested Development fans, because on May 26th, Netflix will release the long-anticipated fourth season of the cult comedy show. Show More Summary
The 3 Best Features Of Flickr’s Massive Redesign
Flickr’s site-wide overhaul puts the emphasis back on the images. The response to Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr, generally speaking, has been one of suspicion. And considering Yahoo’s track record on these sorts of things, rightly so. Show More Summary
Boring Stock Photos Get “Game Of Thrones” Makeovers
Feeling uninspired by stock photography? Unleash the direwolves. I’ve spent too many hours in Shutterstock, mining for gold amongst…let’s just call them organic substances far less valuable than gold. But while most of us lament theShow More Summary
Geomedia
[Image: "Laser Cut Record" by Amanda Ghassaei].
An incredible example of what can be done with laser-cutting, Amanda Ghassaei's project "Laser Cut Record" features music inscribed directly into cut discs of maple wood, acrylic, and paper,...Show More Summary
Obama’s Other Secret War
The Obama Justice Department’s crusade against leakers just took a quantum leap—and it’s extremely worrisome.
A Wealth of GIFs
The news of Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr launched many an irritated post on the microblogging site this week; the response is similar to Instagram users’ histrionic reactions after Facebook bought the photo-sharing company last year. The price tag for the free microblogging site is reportedly $1.1 billion. Is Tumblr really worth more than $1 billion?
