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Weird Australian Animals and the Features That Make Them Unusual
Weird Australian Animals and the Features That Make Them Unusual
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The platypus and echidna are only the beginning. Australia also has a frog that holds water underground, a fish that walks on the seafloor, and a bird that builds a display around blue objects...
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Graphic Designers with Instantly Recognisable Work
Graphic Designers with Instantly Recognisable Work
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A road sign, a record sleeve, a Tube map, a logo you could draw from memory: graphic design is the art most of us see every day without knowing who made it. This list names the designers behind...
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Games That Make Typography Part of Play
Games That Make Typography Part of Play
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A letter can be a ledge, a falling object, or a shape you redraw one curve at a time. These games make you pay attention to how type sits on a page and what its shapes can do. Try a short browser...
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Design Books That Change How You Notice Everyday Objects
Design Books That Change How You Notice Everyday Objects
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The shape of a door handle tells your hand what to do, and the spacing on a sign changes how easily you can read it. These books give you ways to notice decisions like those in things you already...
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Parser Adventures That Make Typing Part of the Discovery
Parser Adventures That Make Typing Part of the Discovery
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Type LOOK to get your bearings, EXAMINE an object to read more about it, or INVENTORY to see what you’re carrying. Those commands are a good starting point in a traditional parser game. These...
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Animals That Can Regrow Lost Body Parts
Animals That Can Regrow Lost Body Parts
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An axolotl can rebuild a limb. A green anole can replace its tail, but the new one is built differently. And a loose arm can become a whole sea star in some species. Compare what these animals can...
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Free Google Font Pairings for Everyday Projects
Free Google Font Pairings for Everyday Projects
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Picking two fonts that get along is the quickest way to make a wedding invitation, café menu, resume or slide deck look like someone thought about it. Every pairing here names one font for...
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Famous Newspaper Fonts, Mastheads and the Stories Behind Them
Famous Newspaper Fonts, Mastheads and the Stories Behind Them
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Some of the most widely used letters in the world were drawn to solve a newspaper's problem: smudgy presses, cramped stock tables, a paper that looked old-fashioned or a new page size. This list...
News
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Influential Transit Maps and Signage Systems
Influential Transit Maps and Signage Systems
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The maps, typefaces and sign systems that changed how strangers find their way around a city, a rail network or a highway. Each one has a named designer behind it, and each earned its place in two...
Arts & Design
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Designers Who Changed the Look of Everyday Objects
Designers Who Changed the Look of Everyday Objects
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Kettles, telephones, kitchen scales, food boxes, typewriters and soy sauce bottles all had to be designed by someone. This list follows designers whose ordinary objects changed how such things...
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People Who Helped Decipher Ancient Writing Systems
People Who Helped Decipher Ancient Writing Systems
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A royal name, a repeated ending, and a set of dates can each give a reader a way into an unfamiliar script. These are some of the people who made those clues count. Start with Egyptian hieroglyphs...
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Furniture Designers Whose Ideas Still Feel Useful
Furniture Designers Whose Ideas Still Feel Useful
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A good piece of furniture earns its place every day: it stacks, folds, flat-packs, survives children, fits a small flat or simply makes sitting more comfortable. This list picks designers whose...
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Photographers Who Developed a Personal Visual Language
Photographers Who Developed a Personal Visual Language
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Some photographers are recognisable from any frame of their work: the way they use light, where they stand, what they wait for and what they leave out. This list follows those photographers across...
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Illustrators Whose Work Shaped Childhood Reading
Illustrators Whose Work Shaped Childhood Reading
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For many children the first thing a book teaches is how to read a picture: where to look, what a face is feeling, what happens in the gap between pages. This list, in order of birth, follows...
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