Long before smartphones and digital watches, people relied on a curious invention to know the exact time: the speaking clock. This service, accessed by telephone, connected callers to a live or recorded voice that announced the precise hour. The very first of its kind appeared in France on February 14, 1933, when the Paris Observatory […]
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On March 16, 1978, the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz met its tragic fate when it ran aground on the rocky shores of Brittany, France. Owned by the American petroleum company Amoco, the massive vessel was carrying an enormous load of crude oil from Saudi Arabia and Iran, along with thousands of tons of fuel oil.
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C.M. Duffy is a Seattle-based illustrator and concept artist known for her ethereal, folkloric illustrations that blend mythology, nature, and subtle horror elements into delicate, otherworldly scenes. Drawing from her background in fine arts and digital painting, she creates commissioned work for book covers, games, and editorial clients, often featuring fae creatures, enchanted forests, and
Normally, when you say artificial intelligence, it would typically conjure images of sleek servers and lightning-fast processing. But designer Max Park has taken a radically different approach. His project “Prompting Nowhere” transforms a vintage Singer treadle sewing machine into a thought-provoking AI system that challenges our assumptions about technology, labor, and human values. The project
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Xavier Ortiz (aka BUILTFROMSKETCH) is a Sacramento-based watercolor illustrator and stay-at-home father who specializes in dark fantasy themes, drawing from his background in animation and storyboarding at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco to craft intricate, atmospheric scenes. His portfolio features haunting motifs like witches, vampires, demons, and occult rituals, often rendered in
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A designer in Italy just created a radiator that looks like a coral reef sculpture—and it’s controllable from your phone. Paolo D’Arrigo’s Coral Electric Radiator uses the same algorithms that govern how coral grows in the ocean, creating intricate aluminum branches that maximize heat output while looking like museum-quality art. This isn’t just about making
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Uchronia’s ‘Paradox’ at Paul Bert Serpette for 2025 Fête des Puces For the 2025 edition of the Fête des Puces, held at the Paul Bert Serpette market in Saint-Ouen, Paris, France, Uchronia was invited to design this year’s thematic installation: Paradox. The collective, led by architect and designer Julien Sebban, developed a series of site-specific
zagato designs ’01’ for capricorn debut The capricorn 01 Zagato is the first road car from German motorsport firm capricorn Group, a company better known for supplying components to Formula 1 and endurance racing teams. Designed and built in collaboration with the legendary Italian coachbuilder Zagato, the car bridges two disciplines (precision engineering and
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The dream of the perfect mobile workstation often involves a series of compromises. You can have a powerful laptop, but you’re stuck with a single, small screen. You can bring a portable monitor, but that’s another device to pack, another cable to manage, and another stand to set up. For those who refuse to give
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Earth’s Embrace: An Organic Eco-Retreat in Wayanad Set amidst a 4-acre hillside plantation in Wayanad, Kerala, India, Earth’s Embrace by Raving Dots Studio is both an eco-retreat and an architectural experiment in fusing computational design with vernacular wisdom. The project responds to two challenges: how to reconnect people with nature, and how to build
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