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The pattern at 4th Street and Santa Monica Blvd

Santa Monica, California

Origami Intersections

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

A 1997 Volkswagen Golf 'Harlequin.'

What Makes This Special-Edition VW From the '90s Look So Cool?

According to the fashion industry, it's all about colorblocking and maximal minimalism.

Dan Nosowitz March 9, 2017

Drawers and drawers of fonts ready to be used.

San Francisco, California

Arion Press and M & H Type

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

After a Heated Response, the City of Vancouver Is Reconsidering Its New Logo

"I can't imagine anyone getting [this logo] tattooed on their body," one designer fumed.

Cara Giaimo March 1, 2017

Help This Computer Program Draw the World's Freakiest Felines

This is what happens when you tell an AI bot that everything is cats.

Cara Giaimo February 22, 2017

Estudi Oleguer Junyent.

Barcelona, Spain

Taller d'Oleguer Junyent (Oleguer Junyent's Workshop)

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

The garden and Administration building (a/k/a Star Fleet Academy)

Los Angeles, California

Japanese Garden at the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

A John Company—the informal name for the East India Company—chess set, made in India c. 1830.

The World's Most Beautiful and Unusual Chess Sets

Pieces so pretty you won’t mind losing.

Anika Burgess January 12, 2017

The lighter-compact combo designed to entice women to switch to Chelsea.

objects of intrigue

The Failed Attempt to Market Sweet-Smelling Cigarettes to Women

Chelsea burned brightly for a few months in 1989.

Ella Morton November 22, 2016

Working on data for a weather chart, c. 1922.

How a Father And Son Helped Create Weather Forecasting as We Know It

Without Jack and Vilhelm Bjerknes, and two world wars, we might not know if it's going to rain tomorrow.

Claudia Geib November 22, 2016

Ralsko Soviet base, Czechoslovakia.

soviet architecture

Peeling Back the History of Soviet Wallpaper

What do the walls of abandoned Soviet-era apartments look like?

Anika Burgess November 11, 2016

Dictograph Alarm on a Baltimore garage.

Why Don't They Make Alarms Like This Anymore?

They are pretty cool-looking.

Sarah Laskow November 8, 2016

The safe room of the future may be your very own board room.

Panic in Comfort With the Modern Safe Room

The ultra-secure spaces designed for waiting out an emergency.

Eric Grundhauser November 4, 2016

An illustration from 1883 of the scene inside a London gentleman's club.

How Man Caves Took Over America's Basements

The male ego found a room of his own.

Kate Wagner November 2, 2016

Casts of the hands of Princess Beatrice and Princess Louise, as part of a feature about hands in an 1893 edition of <em>The Strand Magazine</em>.

The Victorian Era's Strange Love of Disembodied Hands

Inside a very particular time period's fascination with human appendages.

Joshua Adair October 24, 2016

The view of Raymond Hood's proposed skyscraper bridge, from 1925.

The Dazzling Designs for a New York That Never Existed

From skyscraper bridges to glass domes, an intoxicating glimpse at how New York might have looked.

Anika Burgess October 21, 2016

Hallmark artists at work, making some of America's most loved and popular greetings cards.

Why the Hallmark Card Company Owns Thousands of Priceless Artworks

Exploring the modern art collection at Hallmark HQ in Kansas City.

Luke Spencer September 30, 2016

Habitat 67

Montreal, Québec

Habitat 67

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.