Seven cut-out-n-make paper models of Eastern European post-war brutalist architecture by Zupagrafika.
Build your own brutalist block for €17.
Previously: Brutal In Belgrade
Category Archives: Design
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After many decades assisting in the design of sleek road and track racers for other companies, the legendary Ital Design Giugiaro has now made one of its own.
Behold the 5.2l, V10 Italdesign Supercar – only five of which will be made in 2017.
A series of portraits of the grand symmetry and ornate splendour of Budapest’s theatres by Hungarian photographer Zsolt Hlinka.
Above: Nemzeti (The National Theatre); the State Opera House; the Thália Theatre; the Madách Színház musical venue and the Új színház (New Theatre).
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Behold the NV T-Holder (€33 + shipping) – garter belts to prevent a chap’s shirt popping out the top of his pants.
You’ll never tuck again.
Or maybe you will.
Josh Begley’s compilation of every cover of the New York Times since 1852 (the paper actually started publication in 1851 but there are still 50,000 pages here) in under a minute.
First news photo (Glenn Curtis’s flight from Albany to NYC, May 30, 1910); first use of 96pt type (Moon Landing, Jul 21, 1969) and the first colour photo (Oct 16, 1997).
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A rather lovely 1955 Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta – a two seat spider regarded as the progenitor of all subsequent short-block racers. The barchetta was built by Touring of Milan to commemorate Ferrari’s 1948 victory in the Mille Miglia.
Yours for a trifling $8-10 million.
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Behold the 754bhp, twin turbo V12 Pagani Huayra Roadster.
Yours for around €2.2 million, had the company not made a limited edition of 100 vehicles and sold every one of them already.
Damn.
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In November 1996 (three months before the return of Steve Jobs), an ailing Apple Computers announced plans to open a global chain of cybercafés.
In the end, the whole notion was axed at the groovy concept art stage (above).
