Topic: design
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This Armored Wallpaper Can Stop People from Stealing Your Wi-Fi
Researchers in Grenoble, France, have developed a wallpaper that blocks wireless internet signals from leaking out of your home.
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A Mirrored 'Stealth Cap' for Hiding in Crowds
Who doesn't want to enjoy some alone time in a shiny polyhedron from outer space?
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In Praise of Smelly Places
Your sense of smell is intimately connected to your experience of a place and your memory of it. So why don't cities take greater advantage of this?
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Knitting Chain-Link Fencing Into a Work of Art
A design team in Rotterdam has a creative solution to scenery-marring construction fences.
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Sick of City Noise? Just Duck Into This Street-Corner Confessional
Modeled after Catholic confessionals, this portable furniture allows people a private place to chat away from all the hubbub.
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'If Your Place Needs a Slogan, It Has a Problem': A Conversation with the Creative Director of Manchester
After a career spent designing album covers, Peter Saville talks about his unique role in crafting his hometown's identity.
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A Rocking Chair for You and Your Dog or Cat
Because pets love to be swung back and forth, that's why.
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Need More Office Space? Just Stick Some in the Alley
Could offices that clamp onto larger buildings or wander across town be the wave of the future?
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Wild Design of the Day: A Skyscraper Prison to Rehabilitate Jersey City's Convicts
Two University of Pennsylvania students designed this futuristic, arching prison meant to reduce recidivism rates in New Jersey.
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What Mumbai and Beijing Can Learn From New York
Two recent exhibits highlight American planning's strengths alongside its great weaknesses.
