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January 16, 2015
Architecture For Humanity Shuts Down
The nonprofit that sought architectural solutions for humanitarian problems is closing after more than 15 years.
Architecture for Humanity, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that brought professional architecture and design services to communities in need around the world, has closed.
The App That Lets Users Lend Their Eyes, And Blind People See Things In A New Way
Be My Eyes is a crowdsourced video chat service providing sight for those in need.
It's always nice when you can lend a hand to someone in need, but this new app takes that idea to another level: Thanks to Be My Eyes, you'll now be able to actually lend your eyes to a visually impaired person.
Meet The Mobile-Only Bank For On-The-Go Millennials
Other digital banks have failed to take off. Does BankMobile stand a chance?
You've heard this story before: A finance refugee, exasperated by the industry's byzantine fee systems and clunky digital experiences, sets out to build a better bank. No fees, no branches, and design-savvy online products.
Chile To Build Gaudi's First Work Outside Spain
Construction will begin in Chile this year on Our Lady of the Angels chapel, based on sketches completed in 1915 by architect Antoni Gaudí.
The whimsical buildings of Antoni Gaudí are some of modern architecture's greatest masterpieces. But so far, if you want to see a Gaudí in person, you have to travel to his home country of Spain.
Apple, Google, Intel, And Adobe Agree To Pay $415 Million To Settle Antitrust Case
Tech giants hope to avoid going to court, revealing more unseemly details.
Four tech giants—Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe—hope that they can settle a long-running class action lawsuit, by agreeing to pay a total of $415 million to avoid going to trial. The sum was revealed in a court filing yesterday.
Top Obamacare Official Marilyn Tavenner Resigns
The head of Medicare and Medicaid, at the center of recent missteps, will leave her post at the end of February.
Marilyn Tavenner, the head of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, announced her resignation in an email to employees on Friday, The New York Times reported.
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Alum Of Jonathan Ive's Old Firm Tapped To Save Samsung From Bad Design
Lee Don-tae will lead the mobile giant's global design team.
An alumnus of Apple designer Jonathan Ive's old firm will be the new leader of Samsung's global design team, TechCrunch reports. Korean designer Lee Don-tae arrives at the company from Tangerine, the design studio Ive helped found in 1989. Tangerine has won numerous awards while working with some of the biggest companies in the world.
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Design Rock Star James Victore Makes Motivational Posters Cool
"The things that made you weird as a kid make you great today," and other affirmations hand-lettered by Victore on a series of new prints.
Soul-patched designer James Victore is known for his frenetic, punk style. His work, some of which lives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is never too clean or polished; you can feel the energy of his drawing hand. In his latest project, a collaboration with art studio and print shop Holstee, Victore delivers inspirational messages in scrawly handwriting on a series of letter-pressed prints.
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For Google Glass To Succeed, Tony Fadell Needs To Rip Out The Camera
It's not just a design problem. It's a weirding-people-out problem.
The father of the Nest and iPod, Tony Fadell, has taken over the Google Glass project. And to make Google Glass succeed, he needs to take one radical first step: Fadell needs to rip out Glass's camera. Because Glass isn't just a technology problem, and it isn't just a fashion problem. It's a social problem. Glass is freaking people out. And in case it isn't clear, it's freaking people out because it's pointing a camera in their faces.
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The Escher-esque Design Of "Monument Valley" Inspires A Typeface
These 26 letters look just like levels in the award-winning puzzle game.
First released in 2014, and nominated for one of our very own Innovation by Design Awards last year, Monument Valley is an iPad game that looks, feels, and play like a team-up between Studio Ghibli and M.C. Escher. Now, Monument Valley has inspired a Barcelona-based graphic designer to make a typeface based upon its visually deceptive levels.
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