Category: Design
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Stunningly Designed Staircases That Are a Step Above All the Rest
Staircases are the spine of the home. For some, they are simply a mechanism to get from one level to another, but for others, they are much, much more. There are substantial building rules around staircase design – for example, whether your flight of stairs is sufficiently long that you’ll need a landing; the dimensions…
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These Epic Design Fails Are So Bad, You Won’t Believe They Actually Happened
For the most part, designers and engineers do an amazing job. But sometimes when they get it wrong, they get it really, really wrong. The following list is a collection of designs fails from one of our favorite subreddit groups /CrappyDesign. While a multi-dimensional mirror may sound like something that belongs in the Museum of…
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The Most Spectacular Buildings By Architect Frank Gehry That Seem Too Amazing To Actually Exist
In the world of architecture, there has been a strong storm coming from Canada and USA since the early 1960s. It was a powerful cultural force, that pushed through established, conventional norms of architecture like a tornado, but a tornado which not only destroyed the old and boring but also created and invented. This tornado…
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Hilariously Inappropriate Playground Design Fails That Are Hard To Believe Were Approved
To get you through to the end of the weekend, we’ve prepared a compilation of playground design fails that are far from friendly. Who knew that once wholesome characters like Frosty the Snowman or Spiderman could become so inappropriate with just a few wrong design placements. Yes, some of these are so disturbing you will wonder…
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Designer Has The Most Colorful Apartment You’ve Ever Seen
Your house isn’t a home without a bit of color. That’s the motto for Amina Mucciolo, aka Studio Mucci. The designer has taken the Internet by storm after she transformed her apartment into a rainbow. With light purple walls, pastel cabinets, a flower wall, a hello kitty microwave, and colorful paper cranes hanging from the…
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Designer Grows Trees As Artistic Furniture Directly Out Of The Ground
The 'normal' way of making wooden furniture is pretty straightforward: grow trees for a few decades, chop ’em down, cut them into smaller pieces and assemble the pieces into a chair. Derbyshire-based furniture designer Gavin Munro wondered if he could try a wholly different approach: what if he could just grow chairs? What if trees…
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OWL paperlamps brings wildlife inspired lights into your home
The most recent designs of the papercraft project include large endangered mammals that are downsized and conceptualized as paper table lamps.
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Behold These Genius Hidden Messages People Didn’t Expect To Find On Everyday Products
In marketing terms, an ‘Easter Egg’ is defined as something that is an unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software or product, often included as a joke or a bonus. Clever marketers have been including easter eggs into the products and packaging as a cool way to increase customer engagement and loyalty.…
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New Belgium Brewing — Specialty Label Lettering Timelapse
Highlighting the heritage craft of brewing and distilling through the art of hand-drawn typography.
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Vintage Photographs Show How People Worked Before AutoCAD Was Invented
Before the advent of AutoCAD and other drafting software, engineering drawings were made on sheets of large paper using drawing boards. Many types of equipment was required to complete a given drawing, such as drawing board, different grade pencils, Erasers T-squares, Set square etc. The major disadvantage of paper based design was that you could…