The center square on the top plane is exactly the same color as the center square on the side plane. No foolin. If you went through design school or art school, you studied color illusions. But I bet the illusions on this site still blow your mind. Check it.

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I’m increasing the boundaries of our self-defined “Combat Zone” due to two things that happened this week.

First, just a couple miles away from our office but still well inside the city limits, Raleigh had 3 days of explosions of military munitions. Anyone living or working close to the Raleigh scrap metal recycling plant dealt with [...]

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Most people don’t know that it takes more than an hour of labor to make most shoes and that they usually use lots of toxic adhesive. That’s what makes a “green and responsible shoe” a true challenge. Below is an attempt by Patagonia to present some of the benefits of globalization, while showing a [...]

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Is this just coincidence? Maybe. Or Wonderthreads is incredibly fast-moving to market, making the ad for MacBook Air a reality by offering a neoprene version of the inter-office envelope as a laptop sleeve. Yes. The picture above IS a neoprene laptop sleeve.

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Google Maps Street View has added Raleigh to the elite list of cities you can see from an eyeline perspective instead of the rooftop satellite view. Our entire office came to a grinding halt in productivity yesterday when we realized we could navigate the streets without getting out of our chairs. “Hey, go to my [...]

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