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The title sequence for Device 6 is a snazzy piece, the perfect intro to a masterpiece of polish, style, typography, and a whole bunch of other design-oriented things. You totally don’t expect for a mobile game to open with a title scene worthy of being considered alongside Saul Bass. But that’s wha
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Rube Goldberg machines, those kooky machines that perform simple tasks with convoluted methods, are generally a thing of marvel, especially when said Rube Goldberg machine is the winner of the 2014 annual contest among college students. Luckily, that impossible contraption, which was built by a team
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The promise of MIT’s Transform project, currently showing at Milan’s Design Week, is that your living room suite of the future will be a lot different. Furniture will be able to transform itself to accommodate you, or your girlfriend, or your kid. This rigid wooden swivel stood that I’m currently si
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Ah, the 80s; when teenage smoking was still glamourous, punk was holding on by tooth and nail, and it was culturally viable for a yearbook to be themed around the concept of arcade games. When I came across this nostalgic album from a Florida high school on IDEA Books of London’s classy Instagram fe
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These hyper-exotic plastic firearms by Mattel aren’t just kids’ toys. They’re also toys for grown-up kids, thank you very much. As anyone who plays a fair amount of videogames can vouch, it’s only natural to develop a fetish for wickedly exaggerated weapons of destruction that are far too impractica
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To play, to create, to have a beer and fall asleep.
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Inside Xenonauts, the combat sim that hopes to try.
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The artist and engineer Theo Jansen is famous for constructing strange, skeletal, self-propelled, kinetic sculptures that scurry eerily down the beaches of the Netherlands. He’s a guy we like to keep our eye(s) on because his work infuses architecture and artistry, much like games do. But now his wa
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A gameophile’s dream come true (if that’s actually a thing), this aircraft-grade aluminum console plays NES and Famicom games and sure is sexy, but sexy in the way people fetishize sleekly designed electronic products, not, like, “sex” sexy. It’s called the Analogue Nt and is in essence a designer
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Why are we obsessed with broken worlds?
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There is a certain school of thought that says that coding is a world of beauty. The trouble is, it’s largely an invisible world; i.e. you have to know programming language in order to appreciate it. It’s not like the average person is going to look at a page of HTML and be blown away. But after see