The secret world of Japan's puzzle masters
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The Museum of Failure’s latest exhibition is an epic portrait of failures big and small—from the Ford Edsel, to CNN+
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Czechia's incredible 1960s supervillain-lair hotel (and why its architect got banned by the regime)
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A gallery of Sony product design going back decades
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The olympic pictograms are miniature design masterpieces
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The unfathomable scale of the Brussels Palace of Justice
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How the inventor of the troll doll missed out on a fortune
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Megacities: Reality or fiction? Architecture in sci-fi.
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Why Norway's churches look weird
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Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed
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The toxic history of color
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This video tells the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, its design, construction, life, and ultimate demise
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A Twitter thread on Alfred Loos, one of the founders of modern architecture, and why modern housing looks so plain
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Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed Icelandic homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments
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Amsterdam is changing
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Recently discovered drawings by Gustave Eiffel of the Statue of Liberty hint at last minute change
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Art, fashion, and the French Revolution
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The hidden histories of To-Go container art
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Why people thought steel houses were a good idea
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The bewildering architecture of indoor cities
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The giant chainmail box that stops a house dissolving
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The last design you'll ever make
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(mac)OStalgia: 2021 meets Mac OS 9 (featuring designs for Spotify, Slack, Zoom)
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Émile-Antoine Bayard's illustrations for 'Around the Moon' by Jules Verne (1870)
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Meet the Swedish artist who hooked British rock royalty on her revolutionary crochet
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For decades, US cities have been closing or neglecting public restrooms, leaving millions with no place to go. Here’s how a lack of toilets became an American affliction.
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Sexist and offensive vintage ads that would never fly today, 1940-1980
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The real first 3D printed buildings (1930s)
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Three strange river crossings
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The history of tie-dye
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Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies
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Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties
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The incredible video game packaging designs of Hock Wah Yeo
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A map of the age of all the buildings in the Netherlands
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The secret history of the conversation chair
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Furniture giant IKEA has announced it will stop printing its traditional catalogue, one of the world's biggest annual publications, after seventy years
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Manufacturing a better foot | Running shoes
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How did Soviet planners design the Union's cities?
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Buildings and residents testament to the rich seams of history and identity of Kiruna in Sweden are ousted in favour of the profit-laden iron ore seams lurking beneath
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How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century
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The history of electoral ballot design
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Denmark’s 300-year-old homes of the future – thatched with a seaweed that has the potential to be a contemporary building material
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Finland's air force quietly drops swastika symbol – the air force has been using a swastika ever since it was founded in 1918, shortly after the country became independent
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How Cooper Black became pop culture’s favorite font
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In his book Arcade Game Typography, type designer Toshi Omagari breaks down the evolution, design, and history of arcade game fonts
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How infectious disease defined the American bathroom
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In the ’60s, America’s wearable art movement reflected true counterculture
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Vintage ads: Selling health and hygiene during the 1918 pandemic
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The BMW logo – meaning and history
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The secret history of the conversation chair
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