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Design
Can a Font Help a City Make a Comeback?
Designers in Chattanooga, Tennessee have distilled the city's burgeoning creative spirit into a typeface.
Cities
Kickstarting Urban Renewal with an Underground Park
An underground park in Manhattan is turning to Kickstarter to build the public support it needs to make the pipe dream a reality.
Culture
Look at That Friendly Hipster: Is This "Forts Collective" Real?
This new Kickstarter project to change the world through blanket forts has us scratching our heads.
Education
Bringing Back the WPA (Because the Government Hasn't)
How we've taken the old Work Projects Administration and made it new again. I have to admit, when the stock market collapsed and America's...
Design
These Brilliant Gizmos Keep Your Coffee the Right Temperature
Two inventors have created a little metal ellipsoid that solves a problem as old as coffee itself.
Cities
The City That Always Smells: Scratch-and-Sniff Book Tours New York City's Scents
A scratch-and-sniff children's book tours the scents of New York City. Find out which smells made the cut.
Education
School of the Future: Unschooling Education
What do you want to learn? School of the Future is a project about what a school can be. This un-school will facilitate a model of...
Business
The 6 Variables Behind a Kick-Ass Kickstarter Project
Slava Menn's company raised $75,000 on Kickstarter. Here's how they did it, and how you can, too.
Culture
The World Cup, in Awesome Poster Form
Our friends at Hyperakt (you'll be seeing their work here soon) have made this awesome poster of the World Cup as a radial bracket. They're...
Environment
Help Support Vuvuzelas for BP [UPDATED]
Vuvuzelas for BP is a fun effort by Adam Quirk to make some noise around BP: BP is not feeling the pain they are causing in the Gulf. BP is...
Lifestyle
Atwater Village Farm Lets Neighbors Invest in Their Own Corner Store
Imagine a true neighborhood market where you can connect not only with local food and farmers, but also with your neighbors.
Culture
Nine Organizations Already Working to Win the Future
Obama called for renewed hustle in the areas of job creation, innovation, and education. We found nine organizations that are already hard at work.
Business
From Crowdfunded to Financially Sustainable? The Post-Kickstarter Marketplace
So you've earned your funding through Kickstarter. Now what?
Lifestyle
Last Chance: Our United States of GOOD Beer Map Could Be Yours Today!
You only have until 10 p.m. EST tonight to claim your own limited edition United States of GOOD Beer poster and become the envy of everyone you know.
Business
Remember What Malls Looked Like in 1989?
Check out that mullet in the food court. This photo project wants to show you what malls across the country looked like in the 1980s.
Education
X Meets DIY in Punk Mathematics
Meet Tom Henderson, a Portland resident who's really into math. So into math, in fact, that he wants to write a book about it called Punk...
Design
How to Kick Ass on Kickstarter: An Interview with Frank Chimero
Frank Chimero's self-published design book was funded (with $27,000) on Kickstarter in just under four hours. How'd he do that?
News
Humor Is an Online Activist’s Best Defense
“If this many people are willing to put up money just to raise awareness of Kony, why not use that money to hire Blackwater to capture him?”
