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Illustrating Landscapes for Happy People
Benjamin Starr, visualnews.com

It’s no secret that here at Visu­al News we are real suck­ers for maps and clever illus­tra­tions, so when we found these designs by Bel­gium based design stu­dio Khuan + Ktron we were floored. Each of their designs, whether rep­re­sent­ing…

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Taking the Long View
utah.edu

Five things you should know about Fred Mon­tague: He’s 4.5 bil­lion years old, and he’s a large ani­mal, a het­erotroph, a flux struc­ture, and a killer. That’s the résumé Mon­tague wants you to keep in mind, not just about him but also about you.…

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Modern Human Impacts Great Salt Lake Basin and Ecoregion

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70 Amazing Examples of Street Art
boredpanda.com

The atti­tude that art should be seen only in gal­leries is on its way out. This huge col­lec­tion of cre­ative street art will show you that city is prob­a­bly the best can­vas!

Every wall, fence or col­umn could be turned into an art piece. It…

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Lunar Rethinks Rock Climbing Walls, Making Them Slicker And Smarter
By Belinda Lanks, fastcodesign.com

Lunar Europe gives the climbing wall an aesthetic that blends into modern spaces. And of course, it’s controlled with an iPhone app.

Few things say filthy rich more suc­cinct­ly than an indoor rock-climbing wall. But even those lucky enough to h…

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Park life: the evolving approach to designing urban public space
architonic.com

The High Line sec­tion 3 – 10th Avenue spur James Cor­ner Field Oper­a­tions and Diller Scofidio + Ren­fro. 2012 Cour­tesy City of New York and Friends of the High Line

Find­ing new spaces in towns and cities that can be turned into com­mu­nal…

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NPR - Science Friday - From Rooftops and Abandoned Lots, an Urban Harvest

Concrete Wallpaper by Piet Boon
Jaime, design-milk.com

Dutch design­er Piet Boon has designed a new series of Con­crete Wall­pa­per in coop­er­a­tion with NLXL that will launch at this year’s ICFF in New York. NLXL pre­vi­ous­ly col­lab­o­rat­ed with Piet Hein Eek on the scrap­wood wall­pa­per…

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The nice secret grins.
djweir.com

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Dead Man’s Tales: A New Solo Exhibition by Derek Nobbs
Neil Spencer, visualnews.com

Pas­sion for the old time mys­ter­ies of the sea is not a new phe­nom­e­na, but cre­at­ing beau­ti­ful art that cap­tures these vin­tage vignettes and nau­ti­cal themes is quite a feat. Derek Nobbs’ newest solo exhi­bi­tion, Dead Man’s…

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‘Reverse of Volume RG’ Installation / Onishi Yasuaki
Alison Furuto, archdaily.com

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Yasua­ki Onishi, who is known for his art through­out Japan and inter­na­tion­al­ly, cur­rent­ly has an instal­la­tion on exhib­it in the Rice Gallery in Hous­ton titled, ‘Reverse of Vol­ume RG’. On dis­play until June 24, he…

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Ship Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook: An Anthology of Writings About Ship Camouflage During World War I [Paperback]
David Williams, amazon.com

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Modifying Social Behavior With Wild Benches
Benjamin Starr, visualnews.com

Pub­lic space is a funny thing. Peo­ple most­ly seem to be avoid­ing each other or try­ing to make some form of mean­ing­ful con­tact… often, para­dox­i­cal­ly, at the same time. The park bench is a per­fect exam­ple of this — one per­son s…

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