Arts & Design

A candidacy we heartily commend: vote to make this commemorative Apollo stamp the US representative in a new gallery of International stamps at the Smithsonian�s National Postal Museum.

A robot that solves Rubik's cube with Sisyphean aplomb, an avatar of something like the opposite of the uncanny valley.

The graffiti artist MadC's massive, tour-de-force narrative painting recounts a trip through her own inventive, techno-dystopian mind.

2010 is the year fabrication technology and 3D printing came to the masses�or at least to Brooklyn. But is this a good thing?

Mixtape and turntable, meet the collectible bubble-gum card.

The movie that inspired science fiction cinema offers the first making-of pictures in the history of the genre.

In space, no one can hear you munch your popcorn. Video after the jump.

This flat-pack pinhole camera doubles as a postcard to offer something like a photo-sharing snail-net. But the sentiment that motivates its ad campaign is bizarre.

Kinetic art that evokes the march of time and the dance of line.

Well into the digital era, paper keeps surprising us with its creative potential.