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Mazda 929 on a ringed planet, airbrushed by Kazuaki Iwasaki
Kazuaki Iwasaki

ALT Kazuaki Iwasaki

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London bus conductors printed your ticket by turning a handle on this machine, which George Gibson of London Transport started designing during the war
GIBSON ticket machine. Invented by George Gibson in 1952 and used on London Transport buses until the '90s. This is a decimalised example, at the London Transport Museum's "Designology" gallery.

ALT GIBSON ticket machine. Invented by George Gibson in 1952 and used on London Transport buses until the '90s. This is a decimalised example, at the London Transport Museum's "Designology" gallery.

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Juicero was a $699 Wi-Fi juicer that pressed packs of chopped fruit, and investors put about $120 million into it. Then Bloomberg reporters squeezed the packs by hand, got the same juice faster, and the company shut down within months.
Hands squeezing a Juicero pack next to the Juicero machine

ALT Hands squeezing a Juicero pack next to the Juicero machine

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Fontographer by Altsys, the go to Mac app for drawing your own fonts back in 1989
Altsys Fontographer-Diskette (1989). Altsys Fontographer Floppy for Macintosh Computers (1989). This is disk 1 of 3 for installation. Fontographer was the then leading software for Font development.

ALT Altsys Fontographer-Diskette (1989). Altsys Fontographer Floppy for Macintosh Computers (1989). This is disk 1 of 3 for installation. Fontographer was the then leading software for Font development.

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Chrome launched in 2008 with a logo people instantly called a Pokéball, and Google has redrawn it three times since, each time flatter. The 2022 redesign was so subtle almost nobody noticed. Which one's best?
Chrome logos from 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2022

ALT Chrome logos from 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2022

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Google redrew the Messages, Phone and Contacts icons and poured the same blue-purple gradient over all three. Better?
Google Messages, Phone and Contacts icons in 2022 and the new 2026 gradient versions

ALT Google Messages, Phone and Contacts icons in 2022 and the new 2026 gradient versions

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Lahiru Jayakody's lab at Southern Illinois University 3D printed these cookies from PET plastic and corn waste for a NASA contest. Do you think they taste good?
NASA-backed research project creates 3D-printed cookies from plastic

ALT NASA-backed research project creates 3D-printed cookies from plastic

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Tiger rug woven with a blurry texture by Jonas Hejduk
Jonas Hejduk's blurry furnishings are deliberately low resolution

ALT Jonas Hejduk's blurry furnishings are deliberately low resolution

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Conrad Bernitt patented a photo booth in Hamburg back in the 1890s: drop a coin into his Bosco machine and three minutes later you got your portrait on a tin plate
Bosco photo booth from the 1890s next to a tin-plate portrait it made

ALT Bosco photo booth from the 1890s next to a tin-plate portrait it made

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In Japan the green light looks blue, because the old Japanese word ao covered both blue and green. So in 1973 the government made the light bluer, as blue as a green light is allowed to be.
A Japanese traffic light with a blue-green go signal in the snow

ALT A Japanese traffic light with a blue-green go signal in the snow

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Italian designer Joe Colombo made this glass in 1963 with a bent stem, so you could hold your drink and your cigarette in the same hand
Smoke by Joe Colombo (1963). A glass designed around one of the most common habits of the time: drinking and smoking at the same time.

ALT Smoke by Joe Colombo (1963). A glass designed around one of the most common habits of the time: drinking and smoking at the same time.

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Apple's butterfly keyboard could jam from a single crumb, and it stayed on MacBooks for four years anyway. In 2022 Apple paid $50 million to settle the lawsuit, up to $395 per person, and never admitted a defect.
A butterfly key mechanism next to a scissor key mechanism

ALT A butterfly key mechanism next to a scissor key mechanism

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Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic hid bitter quinine in a sweet syrup so kids would take their malaria medicine, and the ad promised it would make them as fat as pigs
Makes children fat as pigs

ALT Makes children fat as pigs

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Palladio dress by Gianfranco Ferré for Dior, 1992
Christian Dior S/S 1992 'Palladio' dress, designed in Paris by the late Gianfranco Ferré who had a degree in architecture.

ALT Christian Dior S/S 1992 'Palladio' dress, designed in Paris by the late Gianfranco Ferré who had a degree in architecture.

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Embroidery scissors shaped like a stork, and the story goes they started with midwives, who did needlework to pass the hours of a long birth
A scissor by Jean Marie Roulo, 1930

ALT A scissor by Jean Marie Roulo, 1930

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Abus made a little lock for rotary phones that jammed the dial, so nobody could make a call while you were out
Telefonschloss. Lock for rotary dial telephones. Manufactor: Abus

ALT Telefonschloss. Lock for rotary dial telephones. Manufactor: Abus

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This 18 gram camera by Kenko has no screen at all, so you only find out what you shot once you plug it into a computer
Kenko’s 18-Gram Pieni III Camera Shoots Without a Screen

ALT Kenko’s 18-Gram Pieni III Camera Shoots Without a Screen

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Toilet signs at Bergen Airport. Cool or lame?
Potty Dance. 02 Nov 2022. Bergen, Norway. The first stop at Bergen Airport always makes me laugh. 🤣 #restroom #bathroomart #restroomsign #publicrestroom #woodensculpture #woodenfigures #figurativeart #publicart #quirkyart #humor #visualhumor #pottyhumor #funnyart #signage #design #interiordesign #publicspaces #bergen #norway #norwaytravel #travelphotography #streetphotography #fotografie · Restro

ALT Potty Dance. 02 Nov 2022. Bergen, Norway. The first stop at Bergen Airport always makes me laugh. 🤣 #restroom #bathroomart #restroomsign #publicrestroom #woodensculpture #woodenfigures #figurativeart #publicart #quirkyart #humor #visualhumor #pottyhumor #funnyart #signage #design #interiordesign #publicspaces #bergen #norway #norwaytravel #travelphotography #streetphotography #fotografie · Restro

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Sam Chick's studio photo of a Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster, 1957
Sam Chick's studio photo of a Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster, 1957

ALT Sam Chick's studio photo of a Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster, 1957

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Trevi sells an electrolyte drink in Tiger's Blood and Blood Orange flavours, so for Halloween Chris Ganz went all in and put it in a coffin
Trevi Takes a Stab at Halloween Packaging With a Limited Edition That’s to Die For

ALT Trevi Takes a Stab at Halloween Packaging With a Limited Edition That’s to Die For

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