A cardboard pavilion for Dubai Design Week
Lovegrove's parametric cardboard pavilion for Dubai Design Week.
Lovegrove's parametric cardboard pavilion for Dubai Design Week.
A Jewish woman in Damascus, Syria when Jews were allowed religious freedom in Syria. Her shoes are better than Lady Gaga’s. (1865, hand colored photo from the Institut du Monde Arabe). We didn’t meet a single Jew when we visited Syria because it’s not safe for them under the Captagon-pushing Assad Dynasty, and it’s not allowed to even […]
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Japanese designers LIXIL create a wonderful hanging and foldable tub for modern living.
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This discovery reveals, for the first time, a direct link between the cylinder seal system and the invention of writing, offering new perspectives for studying the evolution of symbolic and writing systems.