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Design for the Real World: Frisbee

Design for the Real World

The Frisbee wasn’t invented by a toy company. It came from a baker in the 1870s.

Special Guest: Paola Antonelli

Arts, Culture & Media

Design for the Real World: Superball

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Design for the Real World: Q-Tips

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Design for the Real World: Band-Aid

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Design for the Real World: Vespa

Arts, Culture & Media

The Italian icon of mid-century transport is back in the States, zipping around in irresistible candy colors. Paola Antonelli, design curator at the Museum of Modern Art, has her own soft spot for the scooter. Produced by Angela Frucci.

New York art exhibit explores how we talk to objects

Arts, Culture & Media

The Museum of Modern Art has a new exhibition that showcases how people interact with the objects in their everyday world, and the emotions they provoke.

MoMA video game display

The Museum of Modern Art embraces all aspects of digital culture and design

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From video games to the iconic ‘@” symbol to the original Arduino board, MoMA’s design curator Paolo Antonelli sees beauty, form and function — all the elements of art and design.

Looking at the @ sign

Arts, Culture & Media

The @ sign, the only preposition on the keyboard, dates back to the middle ages, but has found new life in the internet age.

New Exhibit Explores How We Talk to Objects

Whether you know it or not, you speak with objects every day.  You put the coffee machine on and tell it to make the beverage you want, your cell phone rings and it lets you who’s calling and you treat your computer as a gateway to the online world.  Essentially, you are interacting and communicating with the […]

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