Giant paper flowers by MioPaperArt on Etsy
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staircase at the Everson Museum of Art, by I.M. Pei
“Steve cared deeply about the why. The why of the decision. In the younger days I would see him just do something. But as the days went on he would spend more time with me and with other people explaining why he thought or did something, or why he looked at something in a certain way.”
The Evolution Of Steve Jobs by Rick Tetzeli, co-author of the forthcoming Steve Jobs biography, “Becoming Steve Jobs”. (Rick is also the executive editor of Fast Company)
Illustrations by Jorge Colombo
This Line Of Furniture Is An Erector Set For Adults. Literally!
If this infinitely reconfigurable furniture line reminds you of your childhood toys, it’s because it’s by the same company.
Building Ikea furniture is like playing with an Erector Set that gives you splinters; is missing a random assortment of parts; can break you and your girlfriend up. Building Meccano Home furniture, on the other hand, is what Erector Set furniture should have been all along: bright, colorful, and reconfigurable. This makes sense, since Meccano was responsible for the Erector Set in the first place.
Is This The Most Brooklyn Branding Ever?
Aruliden’s visual identity for the new restaurant Cooklyn is almost so trendy it hurts.
Looking at the visual identity for Cooklyn, a Brooklyn restaurant specializing in “micro seasonal cuisine,” is like wandering into a 19th-century warehouse inhabited by cowboys and cleaned by Mary Poppins. Created by the New York-based designers at aruliden, Cooklyn’s branding will send you into daydreams of purchasing a small goat farm in the Hudson Valley.
Weird Facts Behind 6 Famous Star Wars Costumes
The little-known stories of clothing from a galaxy far, far away, from Darth Vader’s helmet to Padme’s wedding dress to Han Solo’s vest.
Microsoft Software Recognizes Images Better Than Humans Do
It’s not the most gorgeous photography you’ve ever seen. ImageNet features 1.2 million pictures of mundane items—a photocopier shoved in the corner of an office, a bowl of oatmeal on a table, a pile of logs, a giant sign shaped like an ear of corn, an elbow. But ImageNet is important: It’s the central collection of images scientists around the world use to teach their software image recognition, and then test it, too.
Softcore Ruin Porn: Abandoned Buildings Made Sweet, Not Scary
A French photographer offers a brighter twist on the ruin porn genre, with images of luminous villas, chapels, and theaters in decay.
“Ruin porn"—photographs of decrepit, abandoned buildings—has become anInternet trope so popular that behavioral scientists have investigated why we’re so obsessed with it. Those addicted to decay never face a shortage of haunted-looking abandoned house pictures around the web.
Assessing The Accuracy Of A Twitter Bot That Claims To Predict The Future
A new app turns tweets into prophecies. In an experiment, we found they almost all came true.
9 Infographics To Help You Understand The Woolly World Of Science
A sprawling new “Atlas of Infographics” compiles 280 contemporary data visualizations, beautifully illuminating complex scientific concepts.
Listen To The Sound Of Inequality Along New York City’s Subway
A composition reflects the median income as it changes along the 2 line.
These Moleskine-Like Books Unfold Into Tables And Stools
Every bibliophile’s probably made the joke that they had so many books, they could make furniture out of them. Now on Kickstarter, Bookniture makes building furniture out of a book as easy as opening one.