A Look Back at the Year’s Freshest Logo Reboots

From Google to Hillary to Snoop Dogg's pot candies, we look back on some of the year's best branding.

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Marie Hesseldahl's Snap lamp clamps onto flat surfaces

Danish product designer Marie Hesseldahl has created a lamp with a built-in clamp that allows it to be attached to other furniture pieces. (more…)

June Retrial For Baltimore Police Officer In Freddie Gray Death

Last week, a hung jury failed to come to an agreement on whether William Porter was guilty of involuntary manslaughter and other charges. Porter was the first of six police officers to be tried.

WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Holiday Week Edition

Need to kill some time this holiday season? Good. We've got a lot of TV for you to stream.

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NORD Architecture completes charred timber gatehouse for National Trust estate

Burnt wood clads this gatehouse designed by NORD Architecture for a historic palace in southeast England – a reference to the storm that destroyed many of the estate's trees in 1987 (+ slideshow). (more…)

Bud Light, Prince of Beers, Gets a New Retro Can Design

It's gone retro.

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US job of the week: communications director at Studio Gang Architects

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a communications director at Studio Gang, which recently unveiled plans for a geologically-inspired extension to the American Museum of Natural History (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.

Museum & Gallery Listings for Dec. 11-17

I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and it Was Glorious

As you can imagine, I ran into some problems. Netflix wouldn’t work. Neither would YouTube, at least not without turning on Adobe Flash, which would kind of defeat the point of turning off JavaScript. And of course you can forget using Google Docs without JavaScript.

But the most surprising thing is that most things just worked. And in many cases, worked better. Pages loaded nearly instantly, my laptop battery lasted longer, and I could browse the web with fewer distractions.

A JS-free world is out of the question, but it does spark an interesting conversation about our tools-first approach to developing sites and dovetails nicely with our recent post on building offline sites with ServiceWorker.

Martin Wolf's take was pretty funny:

His experience without Javascript was so glorious that he turned it back on after one week.

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Microsoft to Open Source A Key Piece of Its Web Browser

Microsoft is open sourcing its Edge browser's JavaScript engine as the company continues is march toward a more open future.

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November Jobs Report: Solid Growth

Employers added 211,000 jobs to payrolls last month, setting the stage for a Federal Reserve interest rate increase later this month.

Wayfindr Is on a Quest to Optimize Cities for the Visually Impaired

Wayfindr is creating an open standard for guiding visually impaired people through the London Underground.

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