Design

February 29, 2016

Woman's Clever Tattoo is a Friendly Reminder She's Deaf in One Ear

For some folks, tattoos are purely decorative, but for others, they're a helpful way to tell the world who they are. Imgur user raingoose recently got a tattoo for this exact purpose, because she's deaf in one ear. To let others know, she had a simple-yet-clever design placed behind her non-hearing ear–it's a tiny speaker with an “x” next to it.

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February 17, 2016

Ordinary-Looking Home Is an Untouched Time Capsule of the 1950s Inside

An ordinary-looking home can hide some amazing things behind its unassuming facade. We've recently discovered that a suburban dwelling in Oregon has a Renaissance-era castle inside, and similarly, this seemingly unremarkable 72-year-old house in Toronto, Canada actually has a pristine interior decor that's a time capsule to the mid 20th century. The preserved interior design of the home was discovered, when it was put on the market.

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February 10, 2016

Ethereal Floral Tattoos Mimic Delicate Watercolor Paintings on Skin

Aro Tattoo, aka @tattooist_silo, creates exquisite works of art onto the skin of her clients. Focusing on floral arrangements, the Korean tattooist uses soft pink, red, and blue ink to mimic the colors you'd find in a beautiful sunset. They offer an alternative stylistic approach to tattooing–rather than outlining subjects in a solid dark outline, Aro Tattoo completely skips the black ink and defines form with color.

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February 3, 2016

Karl Lagerfeld Has Arranged His Floor-to-Ceiling Library Sideways

Iconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld does things differently than the rest of us–even with something as ordinary as a bookshelf. The creative director of Fendi and Chanel has a massive collection of publications that stack from the floor to the ceiling. Although we've previously seen some impressive solutions for displaying a large library, Lagerfeld manages to be unconventional without overthinking it: he simply stacks the hundreds of books horizontally rather than vertically.

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