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Meet Juba: the emerging design practice making waves in Montreal. With a halo of kaleidoscopic colors, the debut lamp from Montreal-based studio Juba feels almost otherworldly—like the surface of some alien planet or bacteria blooming under a microscope. What began as an exploration of LED and cradl

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Modern humans like to think we have it all figured out—mostly, anyway. With the invention of the printing press, philosophers worried our thoughts would become mired among the pages, leaving us unprepared for original thinking. Every subsequent iteration—the radio, television, and now the smartphone

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