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Wednesday, January 30
Pressing This Button Will Find Tweetable Sentences In Anything On The Web

Pressing This Button Will Find Tweetable Sentences In Anything On The Web

Designer/programmer Paul Ford’s "SavePublishing" bookmarklet takes the thinking out of social media. It only started as a joke.

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A Ridiculous Holiday Party Art Installation For UrbanDaddy

A Ridiculous Holiday Party Art Installation For UrbanDaddy

The annual party at daily deal site involved 100k ping-pongs, a custom-designed iPhone app, and several lovely synchronized swimmers.

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The Beautiful Hand-Drawn Home Facades Of Burkina Faso

The Beautiful Hand-Drawn Home Facades Of Burkina Faso

These earthen homes--beautiful but also structurally necessary--are decorated by groups of women within the community.

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A Warm, Modern Hideaway For Tasmanian Sheep Shearers

A Warm, Modern Hideaway For Tasmanian Sheep Shearers

John Wardle Architects turned a traditional structure into a cozy getaway.

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Infographic: This Emoticon-A-Day Calendar Lets You Creatively Catalog Your Mood

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Infographic: This Emoticon-A-Day Calendar Lets You Creatively Catalog Your Mood

This $13 poster is the perfect daily diary for the Emoji-inclined.

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How A Trash Can Proves The Competitive Advantage Of Design

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How A Trash Can Proves The Competitive Advantage Of Design

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An iconic Danish garbage bin from the 1930s illustrates how design can help build a brand around just about anything.

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Classroom Furnishings For A Fluid Model Of Learning

Classroom Furnishings For A Fluid Model Of Learning

More than ever before, design is at the core of the national dialogue about improving our educational systems. With its new Verb line of furniture, Steelcase wants to prove that physical collaboration is just as important as the curriculum.

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3 Ways To Build Cities That Withstand Earthquakes And Superstorms

3 Ways To Build Cities That Withstand Earthquakes And Superstorms

Written by: Phil Bernstein

Making our cities resilient to climate change means a shift away from the lowest-bid mentality and toward a model of shared risk, argues Autodesk VP Phil Bernstein.

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5 Clever Product Packages That Dissolve After Use

5 Clever Product Packages That Dissolve After Use

While everyone else is trying to come up with ways to reduce packaging waste, Aaron Mickelson asks the obvious. Why not eliminate packages altogether?

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Infographic: The Many Epic Smackdowns Of Donald Trump

Infographic of the Day

Infographic: The Many Epic Smackdowns Of Donald Trump

We have to hand it to the guy. Whenever Donald Trump is down and out, he gets back up … only to be epically smacked down again.

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Could Good Type Design Promote Literacy In The Middle East?

Could Good Type Design Promote Literacy In The Middle East?

Nadine Chahine talks about her PhD work using eye-tracking to test how children read Arabic script. The research could lead to new insights about literacy in the Arabic-speaking world.

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Deputy Editor : Belinda Lanks
01 / 30 two thousand and thirteen
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Thanks for stopping by Fast Company’s Co.Design. If you’ve been a reader for some time, you’ll notice that we’ve just unveiled a brand-new redesign. You can read about the thought process behind it here. Our content, of course, will be the same: Our focus is on highlighting the world’s best examples of design and innovation, working in concert.

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