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The Braille system is one of design's most ingenious feats. Today, designers are using it to bring more ease and joy into the lives of blind people in everything from mundanity to playtime.

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Industrial design prodigy Yves Behar partners with the Mexican government to design glasses for a free eyewear program.

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Five brilliant uses of paper currency as a design medium and art material

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On the 75th anniversary of the Works Progress Administration, a look at what its design legacy can teach us about the politics of art and the art of politics

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Seven designers reimagine posters for famous contemporary films from a retro-revival angle.

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Spotlighting three spectacular projects by artists, inspired by Alice In Wonderland – from photography to illustration to digital design

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The London tube map is an iconic design literacy meme – here are five brilliant derivatives inspired by it.

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In 1971, the EPA hired 81 freelance photographers to document the environmental issues and everyday life of the 70's.

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Incredible photorealistic landscapes, made out of condiments and spices by artist Matthew Albanese

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3 years, 5 corners, 100\'s of candid photographs of strangers and passers-by – a brilliant portrait of NYC

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How much life can you fit into one cubic foot? Photographer David Liittschwager investigates across 5 fascinating and disparate habitats around the world

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Photographer Andrew Zuckerman went wisdom-hunting among 50 of our time’s greatest thinkers and doers.

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3 designers' innovative and sustainable approaches to death and its rituals – not something we normally consider in a design framework

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Amazing giant interactive chandelier, made of old phones each wired to play a different note of a Christmas carol

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Superb animation for BBC capturing in abstract form the 10 years Iraqi oil minister Hussain Al-Shahristani spent in solitary confinement

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10 wonderful goodies for designers, architects and geeks bound to please your (inner) kid

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Pedro Monteiro, one of today's most exciting data viz designers, on the role of visualization in journalism

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Three brilliantly designed & architectured innovations on the cultural staple that is the alphabet book

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Ambitious, brilliant visualization of 12 million human emotions recorded across the social web over the past four years, from designer-storyteller Jonathan Harris

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An inside look at the unique style and inspired creative process of Greek illustrator Christina Tsevis, a.k.a. Crosti.

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A MoMA retrospective of Burton's work opens on Nov. 22 – here is a sneak peek, including an incredible short film promoting the exhibition that Burton himself directed.

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40 years later, a rare look at Kubrick's incredible work on the epic film that never happened in a gorgeously designed carved-out book

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Independent documentary about iconic illustrator Ed Emberley, whose 1972 book Make a World shaped the visual culture of an entire generation

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