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Artist emiko oye turns colorful children’s blocks into items that are ready to wear, not play
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A 70-year-old chapel on the campus of a Florida university is being restored thanks to new, innovative technology
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From a floating house to a mobile city shaped like a giant lilypad, designers offer up some wild solutions for a wetter future
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This year's nominees focus on wearable technology
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Marvel at these breakthroughs in innovative design and select your favorite
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More than a million years old, the hand axe is over due for an update
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The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum is renovating and rebranding with a tailor-made typeface
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A construction company aims to build more efficiently with modular connecting bricks
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The debacle of the Eisenhower memorial is only the most recent entry in a grand D.C. tradition of fraught monuments
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An award-winning architect suggests that the city reconsider its plans to raze its iconic art museum
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With your help, ballpoint pioneer BIC aims to create a font as common as their pens
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Penalty cards are a surprisingly recent creation that were, perhaps unsurprisingly, inspired by traffic lights
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Journalists got a sneak preview of what's coming up when the new museum opens its doors this coming December
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For centuries the humble bathroom has been shaping the space we live and work
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Architect/historian Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc suggested that the balcony was forged in the heat of battle.
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A new screen-chiseling method will give high-end finishes to low-end phones—and could revolutionize screens in everything from cars to smart watches, too.
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Batman has been guarding Gotham for 75 years, but its city limits weren't defined until 1998
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The famed designer passed away Tuesday at the age of 83
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Other recipients of the National Design Museum's prestigious award include fashionista Narciso Rodriguez and writer Witold Rybcznski
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A look into what still excites us about the Viennese designer, who died last week at 80
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