99% INVISIBLE

99% Invisible is a tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world. New episodes every Tuesday on 99pi.org. This is just the tumblr. 

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Playground equipment _ Isamu Noguchi

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Titus Kaphar

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Skater and photographer Sam Partaix documents European skate culture

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A bicycle graveyard in China

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Women's fashion in every year from 1784-1970 

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Playgrounds of Japan at night

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SF-based band Crashing Hotels is releasing their next album on real human x-rays

... just like in 1950′s Soviet Russia. (As heard in this episode of 99pi)

Support them on Kickstarter and get a limited-edition bone music record here

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The creativity of my students seemed to have no limits. I’ve learned over my 15 years of teaching to let go of my fears of having to come up with creative ideas, and remember that if the students are given the right combination of opportunities and resources, and are taught with inquiry and passion, they’ll work magic.

The Chicago Flag Project

Each tile was made and designed by a Computer Science student at Chicago’s Lane Tech College Prep High School.

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The Longest-Running Everyday GIF Artist on Tumblr Just Broke 4 Years

Angular Geometry’s mesmerizing loops have been a GIF art staple for nearly half a decade.

Angular Geometry (@angulargeometry) is so great! 

After we told him Tumblr’s data confirms he’s the longest-running everyday GIF artist, he said, “I have no idea how to word what I am feeling to be honest. I am really moved.

Awww. And as if his GIFs themselves weren’t inspiring enough…

His advice to artists on their own everyday creative journey is, "Don’t worry so much. So much greatness is ruined by anxiety. Some days will turn out like garbage, some days you will be magically inspired and you will make something you are extremely happy with. The great thing is that the days just keep coming.”

It’s been a beautiful four years, Tyler. Here’s to four more. 

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"Aravrit" is a writing system developed by Israeli typeface designer Liron Lavi Turkenich. It combines Arabic and Hebrew scripts.

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The Manhattan address algorithm to help you find cross streets in New York City:

1. Drop the last number of the address you want to find. (So, if you want to find 260 Park Avenue South, drop the number 0).

2. Divide that remainder by 2. (26 becomes 13).

3. Now add or subtract to that that number according to the "key number" in the chart above, provided by DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New York City. The answer will be the nearest numbered cross street (Add 8 — the key number for Park Avenue South — to 13 to get 21. The nearest cross street for 260 Park Avenue South is 21st street).

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When TV Logos Were Physical Objects

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Legendary Finnish designer Eero Aarnio has designed a charger. 

You can back Mr. Charger now

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evgenia arbugaeva documents vyacheslav korotki, a meteorologist who has spent the past thirty years living alone at a remote arctic outpost on the barents sea, in a century old wooden house that became a meteorological station in 1933, where he was sent by the russian state to measure and log climatic conditions and then transmit the data via radio to moscow. 

notes evgenia, “the world of cities is foreign to him. he doesn’t accept it. i came with the idea of a lonely hermit who ran away from the world because of some heavy drama, but it wasn’t true. he doesn’t get lonely at all. he kind of disappears into tundra, into the snowstorms.” 

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BAUHAUS, Stairway, Dessau, 1932