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If you’re a fan of graphic design history, you might be familiar with Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth. The duo are best known for reissuing the EPA and NASA’s graphics standard manuals from the 1970s and turning them into books for designers, history buffs, coffee-table book collectors, or anyone who appreciates a little bit of the era’s design aesthetics. Having mostly marketed and sold their books from the internet, Reed and Smyth opened a dedicated bookstore in Brooklyn this summer — and it acts almost as a mini museum of vintage industrial graphics design.

Standards Manual, the store, doesn’t just showcase titles from Reed and Smyth’s imprint, though a few do sit prominently on one wall. (It’s hard to miss, given the shelf acts like…

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If you’re a fan of graphic design history, you might be familiar with Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth. The duo are best known for reissuing the EPA and NASA’s graphics standard manuals from the 1970s and turning them into books for designers, history buffs, coffee-table book collectors, or anyone who appreciates a little bit of the era’s design aesthetics. Having mostly marketed and sold their books from the internet, Reed and Smyth opened a dedicated bookstore in Brooklyn this summer — and it acts almost as a mini museum of vintage industrial graphics design.

Standards Manual, the store, doesn’t just showcase titles from Reed and Smyth’s imprint, though a few do sit prominently on one wall. (It’s hard to miss, given the shelf acts like…

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Welcome to Home of the Future, a four-part video series co-produced by Curbed and The Verge. Each month, we’ll take you inside one innovative home and explore how the technology of today informs the way people will live in the future. To follow along, stay tuned for new video episodes on our Facebook page. This month’s location? A tiny prefab billed as the “iPhone for housing.”

Tiny houses have long been a dwelling of choice for those who appreciate a minimalist lifestyle, but they’ve become even more trendy in recent years after an ongoing affordable housing crisis (and, admittedly, HGTV’s House Hunters spinoff on the miniature homes). But tiny doesn’t have to mean it’s missing out on any special features of a futuristic home either. K…

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Welcome to Home of the Future, a four-part video series co-produced by Curbed and The Verge. Each month, we’ll take you inside one innovative home and explore how the technology of today informs the way people will live in the future. To follow along, stay tuned for new video episodes on our Facebook page. This month’s location? A tiny prefab billed as the “iPhone for housing.”

Tiny houses have long been a dwelling of choice for those who appreciate a minimalist lifestyle, but they’ve become even more trendy in recent years after an ongoing affordable housing crisis (and, admittedly, HGTV’s House Hunters spinoff on the miniature homes). But tiny doesn’t have to mean it’s missing out on any special features of a futuristic home either. K…

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Today, LG unveiled what easily qualifies as its nicest, most refined, and most promising smartphone of all time. The LG V30 ticks almost all the design, spec, and feature boxes while deftly avoiding the gimmicks that have plagued LG’s previous efforts. And just as this moment in the global spotlight arrives for LG, the logo most of the world will see is that of Bang & Olufsen. What the hell?

In the United States, LG will distribute the V30 with its “V30” graphic featured in the middle of the phone’s back. In other places, that spot might be occupied by network operator insignia, but for the majority of markets, the big, round, and utterly classic Bang & Olufsen logo will be the one most closely associated with the V30.

LG has a…

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Today, LG unveiled what easily qualifies as its nicest, most refined, and most promising smartphone of all time. The LG V30 ticks almost all the design, spec, and feature boxes while deftly avoiding the gimmicks that have plagued LG’s previous efforts. And just as this moment in the global spotlight arrives for LG, the logo most of the world will see is that of Bang & Olufsen. What the hell?

In the United States, LG will distribute the V30 with its “V30” graphic featured in the middle of the phone’s back. In other places, that spot might be occupied by network operator insignia, but for the majority of markets, the big, round, and utterly classic Bang & Olufsen logo will be the one most closely associated with the V30.

LG has a…

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Taking the “Tube” out of its tube

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Taking the “Tube” out of its tube

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British audio company Ruark Audio has announced the third generation of its R7 modern radiogram. First launched in 2013, the new R7 has added functionalities like built-in Spotify Connect, and sports a slimmer cabinet with a minimalist front panel to make it appear more like a design object rather than audio equipment.

The R7 Mk3 builds on the original in both its tech and aesthetic. Harkening to mid-century modern design with spindle legs, it will be available in both walnut and a grey lacquer with a grille fabric covering the front and an optional TV mount. Its legs can also be removed so the R7 Mk3 can be mounted to an existing sideboard or AV cabinet.

It has bespoke stereo speaker units with both high and low frequency components…

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British audio company Ruark Audio has announced the third generation of its R7 modern radiogram. First launched in 2013, the new R7 has added functionalities like built-in Spotify Connect, and sports a slimmer cabinet with a minimalist front panel to make it appear more like a design object rather than audio equipment.

The R7 Mk3 builds on the original in both its tech and aesthetic. Harkening to mid-century modern design with spindle legs, it will be available in both walnut and a grey lacquer with a grille fabric covering the front and an optional TV mount. Its legs can also be removed so the R7 Mk3 can be mounted to an existing sideboard or AV cabinet.

It has bespoke stereo speaker units with both high and low frequency components…

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