Bones on the Outside

For Halloween: the 1938 evening dress Schiaparelli and Dalí made with its skeleton on the outside. The V&A show it's in is sold out, with two weeks left.

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Sepia 1945 Argentine magazine ad for the Stratopen Birome, a hand holding a ballpoint pen, with the line 'Nueva palabra para definirlo: Esferográfica'

Diseño y Objetos (Design & Objects)

Too Coarse for Letters

The first ballpoint pen was patented 138 years ago today by a bank cashier, and it couldn't write a letter. The one that could became an Argentine word.

Sepia photograph of the Statue of Liberty's giant head and crown standing on the ground in a Paris park, with trees and a bench around it

Arquitectura y Diseño Gráfico

Egypt Said No

The Statue of Liberty is 140. She started as a lighthouse for the Suez Canal that nobody wanted, and Belgrano says it got her first.

A black-and-white street sign reading Lara Croft Way, on two posts in an overgrown verge in front of a painted brick wall

Tech & Videogames

Not a Page 3 Girl

Tomb Raider is 30. The man who drew Lara Croft walked out a year in, leaving behind one per cent of the profits and a character he didn't like seeing sold.