Editors' Picks

Macoto Murayama’s Intricate Blueprints of Flowers

The Japanese artist depicts blossoms from various plant species in fastidious detail

Fact of Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard

What came first: the typist or the keyboard? The answer may surprise you

How Lego Is Constructing the Next Generation of Engineers

With programmable robots and student competitions, Lego is making “tinkering with machines cool again”

Arts & Culture Beats

How New Fonts Are Helping Dyslexics Read and Making Roads Safer

The right font can be appealing, but please don't take this as an excuse to use Comic Sans
June 18, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

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The real buildings that played the Daily Planet in film and television
June 14, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

The real-world buildings that may have inspired Superman's iconic office tower workplace
June 12, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

From micro apartments in New York City to the slums of Mumbai, these are the issues currently obsessing designers around the world
June 07, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

The outsider architect-artist has finally wooed the establishment, winning the Copper-Hewitt's Lifetime Achievement Award, but he's still mixing things up
June 05, 2013 | By Leah Binkovitz

In the 1950s progressive composers broke from the 5 line music staff to experiment with new, more expressive forms of graphic music notation
June 05, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

For centuries, music notation was an inexact technique and hasty transcriptions may have resulted in this symbol
May 31, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

Look up for robotic ravens and cyborg pigeons
May 24, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

The early Greeks and Renaissance artists had birds on their brains
May 22, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

Historian John Reddick looks at the people behind the neighborhood's recent reemergence as a thriving destination in the public eye
May 22, 2013 | By Leah Binkovitz

A theorist who can't stop planning has big ideas for his hometown on sustainability, equity and the right to the city
May 20, 2013 | By Leah Binkovitz

From Orson Welles to Twitter, a look into the classic time-telling relic from your grandparents' attic
May 17, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award winner Margie Ruddick talks about blending ecology and architecture in the first-ever permanent living indoor installation
May 17, 2013 | By Paul Bisceglio

A surprising examination of the original book jacket art to The Great Gatsby
May 14, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

One of the founding father's more quixotic quests was to create a new alphabet. No Q included
May 10, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

The Japanese artist depicts blossoms from various plant species in fastidious detail
May 10, 2013 | By Megan Gambino

From a Las Vegas Denny's with a wedding chapel to rock 'n' roll posters, this year's design award winners have a good time with great design
May 09, 2013 | By Leah Binkovitz

There's a word for that odd quirk of Apple iPads that hold on to design components of old keyboards
May 08, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

What came first: the typist or the keyboard? The answer may surprise you
May 03, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

Venture into the highly regulated and fascinating world of bovine pyroglyphics
April 30, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

These infrastructural lines mark the pathways of pipes and wires beneath the paved surface -- but what does each color mean?
April 26, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

With programmable robots and student competitions, Lego is making “tinkering with machines cool again”
May 2013 | By Franz Lidz

Jerry Uelsmann and other artists manually blended negatives to produce dreamlike sequences
May 2013 | By Paul Bisceglio

Without this simple invention, impressionists such as Claude Monet wouldn’t have been able to create their works of genius
May 2013 | By Perry Hurt

The sequel to Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland was designed to be a playable, albeit whimsical chess problem
April 17, 2013 | By Jimmy Stamp

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