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September 23 2011

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How Infographics Guru Nicholas Felton Inspired Facebook’s Timeline

How Infographics Guru Nicholas Felton Inspired Facebook’s Timeline

For those of us who’ve been wondering what info-design wiz Nicholas Felton has been up to since he lit out for Facebook in April, we finally have an answer: turning the way we consume social media completely upside down. Or, more precisely, on its side.

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Amid So Much War, How Do You Design A New U.S. Peace Center?

Amid So Much War, How Do You Design A New U.S. Peace Center?

We sit down with Moshe Safdie, the designer of the new United States Institute of Peace to discuss the challenges of designing a would-be icon of peace in a time of war.

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Wanted: The Libratone Speaker Blends In, Instead Of Just Blasting

Wanted: The Libratone Speaker Blends In, Instead Of Just Blasting

Launching in the U.S. next month, Live and Lounge speakers marry Scandinavian design with primo sound technology.

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Katie Bell, An Artist Who “Paints” With Torn-Apart Houses

Katie Bell, An Artist Who “Paints” With Torn-Apart Houses

“I am both a homemaker and a home-wrecker,” Brooklyn artist Katie Bell says. She means that last part literally.

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An Architect Turns To Fashion, And Finds Fabrics At Home Depot

An Architect Turns To Fashion, And Finds Fabrics At Home Depot

Fashion designer Airi Isoda of Wrk-Shp infuses her architecture knowhow into modern, minimalist pieces.

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Unify, Simplify, Amplify: How Taschen Continues To Provoke

Unify, Simplify, Amplify: How Taschen Continues To Provoke

The publishing house’s brand derives from its founder’s singular vision and a catalog spanning Euclid to breasts to Michelangelo.

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Famed Theater Director Robert Wilson Designs “Electric Chairs” For Kartell

Famed Theater Director Robert Wilson Designs “Electric Chairs” For Kartell

You won’t find electric chairs on death row anymore (save in a few notable Southern states that still think it’s 1908). You will, however, find them in the foyer at La Scala, the most famous opera house in the world.

Well, sort of.

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Seriously: Artefact’s Printer Redesign Isn’t Boring, It’s Visionary

Seriously: Artefact’s Printer Redesign Isn’t Boring, It’s Visionary

At the heart of the SWYP (See What You Print) is a large touchscreen that allows users to see and manipulate on a 1:1 scale what the finished result will look like before hitting “print.”

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Deputy Editor : Belinda Lanks
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