Solar music box
Making it look easy
You can’t always get what you want
[Image: The first paper clip was invented in 1867, and …
RIP: The laptop
Centuries-old words on the iPad
Cartographic confusion
Management secrets of the Grateful Dead, or strategic improvisation
In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, …
The shape of music
The commuters paradox
Pencil genealogy
You guys
The enthusiasm currency
Deliverable undesirable
Two four-letter words
Presidential thank-you pens
Office in motion
LA-based artist Mark Bennett is a seasoned television watcher who …
In praise of nothingness
Trial and error 101
To speculate in Wall Street when you are no longer …
Negentropy is more
Some things old
Editors at large are chattering about the official White House …
Improvisation and design, video
Signed, sealed, dirigibled
David Byrne on avoiding writer’s block: After the initial transcription …
Normals
The universal 12th language
If you want to get lucky … it pays to …
@ at the MoMA
The head bump and other retail challenges
Even though life is disgusting sometimes, I’ll get up again. …
Happiness is working hard
Ideal bookshelves
Most abandoned yet available
Attribution effect in transportation choice
Under the skyscraper patterns
The etymology of a shake
[Image: The spectacular view of the starry sky has long …
Harmony, a procedural drawing tool
Lookalike avatars encourage exercise
A window into David Foster Wallace’s mind
The nearest kind of association is not mere perceptual cognition, …
New vehicles for design
The potential of the comic trajectory
The deconstructed taco
Slow to the touch
From Safire to Zimmer on language