Wanted: Loose Leaf Editions, A Magazine Whose Pages Become Hangable Art [Video]

Wanted: Loose Leaf Editions, A Magazine Whose Pages Become Hangable Art [Video]

In publishing, there's a lot to be said for making images big. (You may have noticed we subscribe to that philosophy around here.) But no matter how big and beautiful a digital image gets, it's still just an evanescent group of pixels. As designer Tom Crabtree tells Co.Design, "as we consume more and more visual culture online, we're certainly discovering what's out there, but not experiencing it in a physical or permanent way."

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Infographic Video: What If The Gulf Oil Spill Never Happened?

Infographic Video: What If The Gulf Oil Spill Never Happened?

A little more than a year ago, the Deepwater Horizon exploded, spilling 205 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. That much oil is hard to wrap your head around. It's obviously enough to power your car for an astronomical number of trips to the store, but how much oil is it really? This video explains exactly what we could have used that oil for, instead of killing pelicans and dolphins:

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Fizz Webapp Turns Twitter And Facebook Into Bubbling Infographics

Fizz Webapp Turns Twitter And Facebook Into Bubbling Infographics

Social network visualizers are often fun and usually pretty, but sometimes they don't actually let you see your Twitter or Facebook networks in a new way. Fizz is a simple yet appealing "pop-cultural instrument for data expression and exploration" from Bloom (that quote is their company tagline), and surprisingly, it really does offer a fresh view on our social networks. Check it out:

Fizz offers an amusing angle: pointing out the blabbermouths.

Pyro Sculptor Coaxes Fire Like A Superhero, Using Gestural Controls [Video]

Pyro Sculptor Coaxes Fire Like A Superhero, Using Gestural Controls [Video]

Pyros, prepare to drool all over your Zippos: Someone has built a sculpture that magically bursts into flames --all it takes is a wave of the hand.

We know, we know. It sounds totally nuts! But just watch the video. Things get good 'round about the 1:35 mark:

Insanity, riiiiiiiight?! It's as if Minority Report mated with Dante's Inferno smack dab in the middle of the art gallery, with some Frankenstein sets thrown in.

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Infographics Of The Day: How Good Is The U.S. At Innovating?

Infographics Of The Day: How Good Is The U.S. At Innovating?

Today, leaders from the G12 countries--the 12 largest economies in the world--are descending on Brazil, to dither and whine and bicker stroke their chins about the world's economy. But it's safe to say that the number one concern for all those economic ministers and treasury secretaries is innovation. Which is a wooly, often vague concept. How do you get your arms around it?