design
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Famous New York Buildings Stranded In The Middle Of Nowhere Somehow Make More Sense
Sometime in the near future, eleven of New York City’s most famous landmarks have gone missing. Soon, they start to turn up in the some of the most desolate locations on the planet — perched high in a red rock mountain range, buried in a white sand desert — but no one knows why.
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Sitting In A 737 Jet Engine Chair Turns Anyone Into A Supervillain
Mother Teresa? Gandhi? It doesn’t matter how nice or upstanding a human being you might be, the second you plunk yourself down in a chair made from the remains of a Boeing 737’s massive jet engine, you’ll immediately be mistaken for a comic book-calibre supervillain. Whether or not that’s a bad thing is up to…
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This Museum Houses Some Of The Rarest Colours In Existence
Colour is something we take for granted. Pencils, paint, printers — you name it, we have a way of producing any shade or hue we want (even the evil magenta). Hundreds of years ago, such conveniences either didn’t exist or weren’t easy to come by and so, we had to get creative.
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That Emoji Does Not Mean What You Think It Means
By now you probably know that the emoji you send on an iPhone might not be the emoji that is received on a Nexus. Since emoji are designed differently across platforms, sometimes your text messages might get lost in translation. But how differently might your well-intentioned emoji be displayed?