Why the Same Three Typefaces are Used in Almost Every Airport
Helping us navigate, jetlagged, using strange languages, good wayfinding means sticking to clear, legible typefaces. So how do designers choose?
Helping us navigate, jetlagged, using strange languages, good wayfinding means sticking to clear, legible typefaces. So how do designers choose?
This cartoon, from the Truth Facts comic by New Creations, does a wonderful job of translating the awful nonsense some people choose to include at the end of their correspondences. Ouch.
Aome genius, working in some secret laboratory, came up with Project NESM—otherwise known as the Never Ending Slinky Machine.
This an awesome machine that produces edible mist in more than 200 flavours, including mango, chocolate, apple pie, and smoked bacon.
The city must dig a massive tunnel that will dip deep into the lake to ensure Las Vegas's water supply doesn't run out.
Martín De Pasquale is a Photoshop master who twists and teases reality in his wonderful surreal art. We've seen some of his magical work before and now he's back with a lot more images that warps your world view.
A superbug resistant to last-resort antibiotics was found in imported squid. Here is why one small finding has serious implications.
Tom "Bane from Batman" Hardy is set to take the leading role in gangster biopic Legend. Sorry, the two leading roles, as he'll be playing both of the notorious Kray twins, Reggie and Ronnie. Here's hoping he speaks a bit more clearly in this, or we'll have twice the need for a translator.
If you took a bass boat and stripped it to its bare essentials you'd probably end up with the Ultraskiff 360.
That terrifying hole is an open quarry 525 metres deep and 1.2 kilometres in diameter.
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Virtual reality -- it's the future of gaming, a way to immerse ourselves in our favourite games as never experienced before. Or so we keep being told.
It will appear golden and huge in the sky, so pay attention because it will not happen again until June 2098.
This old printer sounds so much like a harpsichord you'd swear Bach himself had just hit the print button.
Smart TVs aren't all that smart. So when a smart TV app comes along that actually looks clever, it's pretty unexpected.
It's obvious now that these events are not a guaranteed boon to any country.
