With his set of 52 woodblock prints–plus a joker–artist TJ Huff deals a new hand to the classic pinup. Once upon a time, before YouPorn, “Blurred Lines,” and viral twerking, the pinup girl was the ...

Before LCDs and LEDs became cheap enough to add to nearly any device, mechanical flap displays were used in large-scale signage and bedside alarm clocks for improved legibility. Shinsaku Hiura has ...

The first record of playing cards dates back to 9th-century China, which would place their invention around the same time as gunpowder and more than 500 years before the printing press. But their ...