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advertisement advertisement It’s an unfathomable milestone. More than 500,000 Americans have now died due to COVID-19, 13 months after the first confirmed case in the U.S. advertisement advertisement How does one convey the gravity of the loss, which is so enormous it can almost seem abstract? News outlets have used bar charts, line charts, and heat maps to convey each new and tragic milestone over the past year. Now, the most effective visualizations use design to both capture the data at its massive scale and bring it back to Earth with visuals that remind us that each data point is a per...

[Photo: Aaron Hargreaves/courtesy Foster + Partners] advertisement advertisement One of architecture’s newest and unlikeliest tools can now be found clomping through the dusty concrete floors of a half-built building. Just four legs and a torso, it could transform the way buildings get made. advertisement advertisement The tool is the dog-like robot called Spot, which was created by Boston Dynamics and is now being used by the London-based global architecture firm Foster + Partners to scan and analyze buildings that are under construction. More commonly deployed in various industrial capaci...

[Photo: Akihiro Yoshida/courtesy Nendo] advertisement advertisement Japanese design studio Nendo created an entirely new key to show what a big difference subtle changes can make. advertisement [Photo: Akihiro Yoshida/courtesy Nendo]The key, posted to the studio’s website this month, looks a lot like the one you use to unlock your front door: small, metal, with a short protruding blade with teeth. However, the key head—the rounded part you turn to rotate the key—looks fundamentally different. It has a new shape that not only improves the function of the key—it also shows that even the...

Washington Post story, the spots resulted in a 300% increase in sales for Watkins Coffee, and the company sold 25,000 pairs of vinyl Wilkins and Wontkins puppets in 1958. Between the short format video and branded merchandise, Wilkins would fit in just fine in the TikTok era of 2021. Just don’t think about bringing these two muppets out of retirement. In that same Washington Post story, it recalls a trade show back in 1992 where a marketing executive was trying to pitch Wontkins and Wilkins as potential mascots for cereal or snack food ads. Henson’s widow Jane allegedly reacted in a way...

[Source Image: noerizki/iStock] advertisement advertisement Sustainability isn’t just measured in pounds, emissions, and material sourcing. It’s also measured in bytes. advertisement advertisement Amsterdam-based design studio Formafantasma, whose work focuses on sustainable design, has a newly redesigned website that’s better for the environment. The site looks about as plain as you can get: It has lots of white space, few images, and only two typefaces: Arial and Times New Roman, in standard blue and black that harkens back to the early days of the web. [Screenshot: FormaFantasma]You ...