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Animation Spotlight: Peripetics
Animation Spotlight: Peripetics

Bursting hearts, crumbling houses, or why catastrophe never looked this good.

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Technofuturism: La Vitrine
Technofuturism: La Vitrine

How 35,000 light bulbs are beaming our way into the human-algorithm future.

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Animation Spotlight: Invent
Animation Spotlight: Invent

The frontiers of creativity, the art of printing, and the beauty of not printing.

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The Open_Sailing Project
The Open_Sailing Project

Drifting villages, or what the Apocalypse has to do with your social life.

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5:1 Student Design Show
5:1 Student Design Show

Untainted design thinking, or what 200 students have to do with the world of 100.

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Neighborhood Design Watch: Cardon Copy
Neighborhood Design Watch: Cardon Copy

What an exotic cat and a stellar cleaning lady have to do with visual aestheticism.

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Retrospective on Futurism: N55
Retrospective on Futurism: N55

What snail shells and walking houses have to do with 13 years of art-science.

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Illustration Spotlight: Plan 9.001
Illustration Spotlight: Plan 9.001

The 1’s and 0’s of home, or what the Olsen twins have to do with John Locke and God.

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More Than Form: Design for Disability
More Than Form: Design for Disability

What a microwavable monkey has to do with the MoMA and open social conversation.

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Street Art: From All Sides & Five Continents
Street Art: From All Sides & Five Continents

The urban anthropology of creativity, or why copyright law is a sad case study in swimming against the cultural current.

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