Wed, 08/04/2010 | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

How Typefaces Solve Problems for Techies

The superb typographer Paul Shaw has a post up at Print magazine's blog, where he attempts a list of the most important typefaces of the last 10 years.

It's a mammoth task, but Shaw explains it like this:

Art Made of Lottery Tickets Builds Anew, Using Dashed Dreams

Good news for those of you who frittered away all your hard-earned cash on the lottery and never, ever won: Now you can turn old tickets into dream homes! Cars! Tropical vacations! We mean that literally!

The art pair Ghost of a Dream transforms discarded lottery tickets into the very stuff you might've bought had you not lost. All. The. Time. Think of it as a public service. They're building new dreams out of spent dreams.

11 Iconic Products In Your House Thanks to Design/Research

Anyone in the United States who loves Chemex coffee makers or Marimekko dresses has one man to thank for bringing them stateside: architect Benjamin Thompson. The new book Design Research: The Store that Brought Modern Living to American Homes (Chronicle Books) tells the story of Thompson’s pioneering emporium of modern design.

Rebuilding Baton Rouge’s Waterfront, With Striking Modern Architecture

American waterfront redevelopments are often dreadfully kitschy. Fishing nets, anchors, "aged" boardwalks fresh from China: We're pretty sure they take their design cues from Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Trahan Architects's plan for an old municipal dock in Baton Rouge has none of that. A curving shotgun of a building, it looks like an abstract wave rising out of the Mississippi. It's completely, unabashedly modern.

Designers Are Still Blind to Main Street

Almost Genius: A Race Car Video Game That Happens in Real Life

Designer Malte Jehmlich may have invented one of the wittiest "video games" we've ever seen: Racer, which uses a real RC car, on a real RC track, which you control inside an old-time arcade-game booth.

Infographic of the Day: How Your Favorite Websites Spy on You

We all know, vaguely, that the websites we visit are tracking us with cookies and whatnot, silently scraping data on how and where we surf. But when you see the facts all laid out for you, it's gobsmacking.

Infographic of the Day

Infographic of the Day: Pasta, Not Bacon, Makes You Fat. But How?

Expert Perspectives

Paddy Harrington Discusses: Wanna Figure Out If Your Product Is Any Good? Think Like A News Editor
Roderick McMullen Discusses: Usability Is King For Your Product. Here’s How We Can Finally Measure It
Enrique Allen Discusses: Silicon Valley’s New Secret Weapon: Designers Who Found Startups

From the Editor

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