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There is no Dye in Apple's design team
Steve Jobs said lots of things, so you'll usually find a quote from him for almost every occasion. “Great things in business are never done by one person,” he once said. “They're done by a team of people.” News that Meta…
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4 Designers on Their New Collections Debuting at Design Miami 2025
The curatorial theme at this year's Design Miami –the summit that was founded in 2005 as a way to showcase home-centric creativity in complement to the megafair, Art Basel, and that now has footprints everywhere from Seoul to Aspen–is…
Apple Reveals Winning Tree Designs That Will Shine On Battersea Power Station HQ
Apple's annual holiday projections go live at 5 p.m. U.K. time on Thursday, Dec. 4. These projections light up the 330-feet chimneys and washtowers of the Battersea Power Station in south London, Apple's U.K. HQ. This year, for the first time…
SoftBank's Arm plans to set up chip design facility in South Korea
SEOUL, Dec 5 (Reuters) - South Korea's industry ministry and SoftBank's chip unit, Arm Holdings, have signed an agreement to strengthen the country's semiconductor and Artificial Intelligence sectors, a presidential policy adviser said on Friday.
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Quanscient launches MultiphysicsAI to transform engineering design workflows
Quanscient has released MultiphysicsAI, a new approach that turns high-quality simulation data into AI-driven insights, allowing engineers to explore design options faster and more confidently. By generating proprietary datasets from Quanscient…
Labor urged to target gas exporters and bring in east coast reserve 'right now' as it weighs scheme's design
Blue-collar workers and manufacturers want the Albanese government to stare down the gas giants as it designs a new gas reservation scheme, warning the industry's preferred approach would fail to quickly contain prices. The federal government is…
These Ceramic Cups Were Designed And Manufactured Entirely By An Algorithm
Sure, we could sit and fearmonger about how AI will one day replace designers, but here's an alternative reality – what if AI didn't replace us, it just created a parallel reality? Like you've got Japanese ceramics, Italian ceramics, and…
Where Art Meets Luxury, LVMH Shapes the Next Chapter of Miami Design District
The Miami Design District as we know it today began with a meeting of minds. In 2008, Michael Burke, then at Fendi and now chairman and CEO of LVMH Americas, was introduced to Miami entrepreneur and developer Craig Robins through Design Miami, the…
Shinzo Tamura Designs Sunglasses From the Inside Out
When the Lens Comes First: Most sunglasses begin as sketches. Designers draw frames that photograph well, then select lenses that match the aesthetic. Shinzo Tamura flips that sequence entirely. This Osaka-based brand starts with TALEX polarized…
John Gruber Shares Scathing Commentary About Apple's Departing Software Design Chief
In a statement shared with Bloomberg on Wednesday, Apple confirmed that its software design chief Alan Dye will be leaving. Apple said Dye will be succeeded by Stephen Lemay, who has been a software designer at the company since 1999. Meta CEO Mark…
Korea to designate all 17 rare earths as critical minerals to beef up resource security
Korea will designate all of the 17 scientifically identified rare earth materials as strategically critical minerals requiring government control for the nation's resource security, the industry ministry said Friday. The measure was announced as…
The workplace needs to be designed like an 'experience,' says Gensler's Ray Yuen, as employees resist the return to office
The corporate world's return to the office is in full swing. Employees across global companies like Amazon, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs have been called back to the office five days a week. In early December, Instagram became the latest firm to…
Apple Lights Up Battersea Power Station With iPad-Designed Christmas Trees
Apple is today celebrating the winners of Your Tree on Battersea, its festive UK competition that invited people to design digital Christmas trees on iPad. The 24 winning submissions are set to be projected onto Battersea Power Station beginning…
Snøhetta designs Düsseldorf Opera House with a cave-like ground floor
Norwegian architecture practice Snøhetta has unveiled design for a new opera house featuring a cave-like ground floor in Düsseldorf, Germany. Snøhetta 's design is inspired by the Rhine's meandering path through the region. The…
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Pantone Just Revealed Its 2026 Color of the Year-and It Goes Against Every Design Trend Forecast We've Seen So Far
When I sat down to meet virtually with the Pantone Color Institute to discuss their Color of the Year 2026, I was definitely expecting something different—after all, the last few years have been a collection of splashy hues, so I knew next…
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