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November 15 2012
A Vertiginous Mirrored Room That Multiplies Inhabitants Infinitely

A Vertiginous Mirrored Room That Multiplies Inhabitants Infinitely

Just try not to lose track of where the door is.

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A Deck Of Beautiful Playing Cards, With A Roundabout Wartime Heritage

A Deck Of Beautiful Playing Cards, With A Roundabout Wartime Heritage

Cards that helped WWII anti-aircraft gunners recognize airplane silhouettes from the ground inspire a new deck from Best Made.

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A Breathtaking Look At Denmark’s Daring New Starchitects
Kimball Art Center, Park City, UtahMaritime Youth House, Copenhagen, 2004Media Library at Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden, 2010National Gallery of Greenland

A Breathtaking Look At Denmark’s Daring New Starchitects

A comprehensive new book surveys the forms the last decade of Danish experimentation has wrought.

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Infographic: Forget Red And Blue. The Most Accurate Map Of U.S. Voters Is Purple

Infographic: Forget Red And Blue. The Most Accurate Map Of U.S. Voters Is Purple

Rather than coloring whole states or counties by party, a new map uses pointillism to paint an emptier, more accurate portrait of American voting.

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The Catfish Who Loved Me: 9 Bizarre Artifacts Of Espionage

The Catfish Who Loved Me: 9 Bizarre Artifacts Of Espionage

Meet “Charlie,” a robot fish designed to take water samples near power plants and factories. He’s just one of the gadgets on view at Spy: The Secret World of Espionage this fall.

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Neuroscience Says Buildings Can Reshape Our Brains

Neuroscience Says Buildings Can Reshape Our Brains

A new piece in Pacific Standard explores how neurobiology is driving emergent thinking about how certain types of spaces affect our behaviors and, ultimately, our brains.

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Watch Body Parts Get Zapped To The Beat In This Wild Music Video

Watch Body Parts Get Zapped To The Beat In This Wild Music Video

With a little electricity, Daito Manabe turns a group of stoic volunteers into a human visualizer.

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Amazingly Weird Architecture For Dogs, From Muji’s Creative Guru

Amazingly Weird Architecture For Dogs, From Muji’s Creative Guru

Kenya Hara, art director for MUJI, wants to reconsider the dog house. The canine world will never be the same.

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Innovation Engine

How Kids Are Remaking Our Consumer Behavior

How Kids Are Remaking Our Consumer Behavior

Perhaps more than at any other time, the adults of tomorrow are determining our today, writes Continuum’s Susan Fabry.

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Frog Creates An Open-Source Guide To Design Thinking

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Frog Creates An Open-Source Guide To Design Thinking

How do you teach youngsters in the developing world how to work together to tackle tough problems in their own communities? Frog’s free Collective Action Toolkit aims to help.

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Deputy Editor : Belinda Lanks
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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.

We started this site with a few simple premises in mind. First, design is a window onto the world at large, and the culture we live in.

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