Design

February 3, 2015

Myers-Briggs Personality Type Infographic Provides Valuable Career Advice and Income Data

Being familiar with your Myers-Briggs personality type can provide valuable insight into what type of job might be best suited for you. The Career Assessment Site put together a socioeconomic infographic that highlights the test's personality traits, their average household income, and more. There are four main categories in this fascinating chart: the optimist, the patriarch, the pragmatist, and the originator. From there, the groups are broken down into nuanced personalities like INFJ and ESTP.

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January 31, 2015

Playful Otters Swim Through Clear Tubes with Roundabouts

The otters at Japan's Keikyu Aburatsubo Marine Park live in a truly amazing habitat that shows off the animals' carefree demeanor. Clear tubes – some straight and some circular – act as waterways that allow the otters to swim lightheartedly in fun patterns. The circular tubes function much like roundabouts on city streets, enabling “traffic flow” to change directions on a dime. When the otters aren't swimming, they have plenty of other activities available.

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January 20, 2015

Minimalist Poster Series Depicts the Serious Symptoms of Depression with Geometric Designs

In this eye-opening poster series, Nick Barclay depicts the effects of depression with simple geometric designs and solid colors. The six powerful posters highlight individual symptoms of the often-misidentified and often wrongly treated mental illnesses. Barclay tackles the abstract concepts of isolation, withdrawal, dread, hope, clarity and confusion with a combination of lines, circles, dots and bars.

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January 13, 2015

Elegant Cold-Drip Coffee Maker Modeled After the Eiffel Tower

If you love both coffee and architecture, then Dutch Lab's Eiffel 2000mL cold-drip coffee maker has you in mind. The Seoul-based company mimics the structure and intricacies of Paris' famous romantic landmark. Its French-inspired beauty provides a way to hold the coffee-making mechanisms such as the tubes and drip valves. The combination of its black, full-aluminum body with brass plating and glass makes for an elegant statement piece in any room.

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