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In the modern home, chairs are more than just a place to plant your seat. They’re part of an overall design scheme, statements about your personal style and a way to complement your other furniture and art pieces. From ghosts and monsters to teddy bears and musical instruments, these modern chair designs are all about [...]

When Francois Robert unexpectedly acquired a human skeleton in the 1990s, he knew he had to do something wonderful with it. Several years later when the economy collapsed and he found himself with time on his hands, Robert finally settled on a project: powerful anti-war images spelled out in human bones.

Bones, whether animal or human, [...]

Ten years ago, many of us assumed that ebooks would make traditional books obsolete. While more of us are going paperless these days, we’ll always have a soft spot for paper books and the shelves that hold them. There’s something so viscerally satisfying about walking into a room lined with books of all colors and [...]

No matter how often the huge number of professional Photoshop screw-ups are pointed out to a very amused world, more just keep cropping up. Why is this phenomenon still going strong? Short deadlines are a sure cause, along with this very powerful photo manipulation tool being put into the hands of less-than-experienced graphic designers. But [...]

All around the world, wherever traffic lights beckon cars to traverse intersections in an orderly fashion, one man keeps pedestrians safe. He is one of the most recognizable figures on the planet and children are taught to respect and obey him from a very young age. He stands as a silent sentinel, a helpful stranger, [...]

Great art is, by necessity, innovative and adaptable. It breaks rules, defies logic, and twists about in ways that we never saw coming. The photography of Miroslav Tichý takes everything we thought we knew about photography and turns it on its head, giving us a catalog of work that is at once carelessly incomplete and [...]

What’s better than the first sip of a hot cup of coffee made just the way you like it? Well, maybe if that hot cup of coffee did double duty as fine art, you’d enjoy it even more. It’s hard to tell just how long baristas have been creating tiny works of art in coffee [...]

What would we do without coffee and tea? The well-loved beverages are the focal point of social gatherings, the relaxing refreshments of work breaks everywhere, and the only way to start the day for countless people around the world. Could these indispensable beverages be made even better with some crazily creative packaging?

Beautiful Brews

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Manufacturing is about to undergo its biggest transformation ever, but it won’t come with big factories and a booming work force: it will happen with the use of small-scale 3D printers. Imagine being able to create just about anything you will ever want or need with little more than the push of a button. Everything [...]

As of 2008, New York City was estimated to have a population of around 8.3 million people. It happens to be the most populous city in the entire United States. So just how long would it take to draw a picture of every single person in New York? Artist Jason Polan is on a mission [...]