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Damien Chazelle made La La Land as a love letter to a Los Angeles that barely exists anymore, and to a style of filmmaking that…
The equilateral triangle is one of the most psychologically loaded forms in Western visual culture. It appears on currency, on occult diagrams, on the cover…
The midsize truck and off-road SUV segment is the most brand-loyal territory in the American automotive market. Bronco buyers bleed blue oval. Wrangler owners have…
If the Swiss Army knife became a flashlight, it would probably chase the same goal the VEZERLEZER WK2 does: fitting a surprising number of useful…
The seven-segment display has been doing the same job since the 1970s, and the LED ticker has been blinking its way across trading floors and…
Across America, downtown office towers sit half lit and half leased, their elevators still running, their HVAC systems still humming, their floorplates waiting for people…
There is a reason Kevlar keeps showing up in premium phone accessories. The material brings a rare combination of low weight, tactile richness, and serious…
The history of decorative stone carving and the history of electric lighting have almost never intersected in any meaningful way at the shade level. The…
Most projector makers treat audio as an afterthought. Slap a single speaker somewhere on the chassis, call it Dolby-something, and move on. Soundcore, being a…
Why does every electric truck feel like it was designed by someone who wanted to leave the truck category as quickly as possible? The Rivian…
Forty-one percent of people have folded towels while on a work call. One in five have taken meetings from a makeshift setup in their child’s…
Cork has spent decades being underestimated. Wine stoppers, bulletin boards, yoga mats, the occasional floor tile. Somewhere along the way, a material with genuinely remarkable…
Sheet metal has been a furniture material for decades, but it almost always gets hidden. It becomes the internal skeleton, the underframe, the bracket buried…
Apple, a company that charges a premium for premium display technology, has somehow never put an OLED screen in its most pocket-friendly tablet. The iPad…
Steve Jobs built Apple on the idea that hardware and software had to be designed as one thing, inseparable and mutually reinforcing. Tim Cook, who…