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The development of the baseball, from shoe rubber and lemon peels to today's minimalist, modernist object
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Design agency BREAKFAST is creating the street sign of the future
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The right font can be appealing, but please don't take this as an excuse to use Comic Sans
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The real buildings that played the Daily Planet in film and television
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The real-world buildings that may have inspired Superman's iconic office tower workplace
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From micro apartments in New York City to the slums of Mumbai, these are the issues currently obsessing designers around the world
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In the 1950s progressive composers broke from the 5 line music staff to experiment with new, more expressive forms of graphic music notation
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The outsider architect-artist has finally wooed the establishment, winning the Copper-Hewitt's Lifetime Achievement Award, but he's still mixing things up
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For centuries, music notation was an inexact technique and hasty transcriptions may have resulted in this symbol
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Look up for robotic ravens and cyborg pigeons
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The early Greeks and Renaissance artists had birds on their brains
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Historian John Reddick looks at the people behind the neighborhood's recent reemergence as a thriving destination in the public eye
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A theorist who can't stop planning has big ideas for his hometown on sustainability, equity and the right to the city
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From Orson Welles to Twitter, a look into the classic time-telling relic from your grandparents' attic
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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award winner Margie Ruddick talks about blending ecology, architecture in first-ever permanent living indoor installation
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A surprising examination of the original book jacket art to The Great Gatsby
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One of the founding father's more quixotic quests was to create a new alphabet. No Q included
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The Japanese artist depicts blossoms from various plant species in fastidious detail
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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
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There's a word for that odd quirk of Apple iPads that hold on to design components of old keyboards
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