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Our new font designed by Miles Newlyn

Sponsored content: We are well underway on a redesign of Cool Hunting that will bring you an extraordinary new interface to even further elevate the quality of the original content we create. Among the various components of this project is a custom display font for our titles and subtitles designed by world renowned British typographer, Miles Newlyn. As part of Diet Coke’s just-launched Shift-X campaign, …

Architecting the Future

A duet of Buckminster Fuller's timeless inventions

To complement the wave of events at Art Basel last week, the Miami Design District played host to a program that included trendy popup boutiques and transient cultural exhibitions. The highlight of the series for us was the resurrection of two creations from famed American architect-inventor Buckminster Fuller, whose futurist designs decorated the Palm Lot in Miami. Fuller’s “Fly’s Eye Dome” is a 24 foot …

The Bay Lights

A proposed project from an acclaimed artist aims to illuminate the Bay Bridge

With the rest of the country gathering for scattered tree-lighting ceremonies, Leo Villareal has been busy trying to illuminate another iconic structure: the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Villareal envisions covering the northern expanse of the bridge with The Bay Lights, a dynamic light display that reflects off the surface of the water below. A nod to the 100th anniversary lighting of the Eiffel Tower, the …