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scmp.com - Charmaine Yu - He's been sewing since 14. Now this Hong Kong designer has his own couture label
He's been sewing since 14. Now this Hong Kong designer has his own couture label
South China Morning Post

Just over a year ago, Hong Kong-born fashion designer Alvin Ho was ready to pack his bags and leave his dreams behind in London for good. Yet with rigorous ambition – and many sleepless nights of sewing – he defied the odds in an era…

wwd.com - Cleo Levin - CircKit Brings AI-Powered Circular Design to Fashion Schools
CircKit Brings AI-Powered Circular Design to Fashion Schools
WWD

The fashion industry is facing new expectations around circular design, lifestyle accountability, and compliance, meaning that the next generation of designers and fashion professionals will need to prepare. To help students gain hands-on…

beatrate-radio.com - Judy H. Esquivel - Elevate Your Space: The Art of Modern Interior Design
Elevate Your Space: The Art of Modern Interior Design
Urbane

Interior design is more than just arranging furniture—it's about crafting an environment that reflects your personality while balancing aesthetics and functionality. Modern interior design takes these principles a step further by blending…

straitstimes.com - Hedy Khoo - Tastemakers: Interior designer turns hawker in Chinatown
Tastemakers: Interior designer turns hawker in Chinatown
The Straits Times

SINGAPORE – For almost 30 years, Patrick Tay made a living designing spaces in Beijing. Now, the 60-year-old spends his days working in one measuring just 2.6m by 3.35m. At Tuan Tuan Yuan Yuan dessert stall in Chinatown Complex, the former…

dailystar.co.uk - Liam Randall - Rise of 'XL Bully' designer cats leading to 'cruel' suffering, warn experts
Rise of 'XL Bully' designer cats leading to 'cruel' suffering, warn experts
Daily Star

Cruel 'Frankenstein' cat breeding is creating a generation of pets doomed to a lifetime of agony, animal welfare experts have warned. Demand for bizarre 'designer' breeds, including flat-faced cats, hairless mutants and short-legged 'XL Bully'…

movieweb.com - Omar Faruque - Disney Unveils New Stitch Design as Live-Action Sequel to $1B Smash Finally Announced
Disney Unveils New Stitch Design as Live-Action Sequel to $1B Smash Finally Announced
MovieWeb

A few years ago, nobody at Disney would have predicted that a live-action remake originally built for streaming would end up carrying the studio's entire 2025 slate. But that's what Lilo & Stitch did, opening to a record Memorial Day weekend and…

nypost.com - Shane Galvin - Exclusive | NYC designer found dead on Montauk yacht 'harassed' and accused of fraud by boat owner days before death, texts reveal
Exclusive | NYC designer found dead on Montauk yacht 'harassed' and accused of fraud by boat owner days before death, texts reveal
New York Post

Hamptons fashion entrepreneur Martha Nolan-O'Slatarra said she was being “harassed” and accused of fraud by financier Chris Durnan just days before she was found dead on his boat, texts obtained by The Post reveal. The 33-year-old…

wallpaper.com - Léa Teuscher - 'We believe in the power of ordinary items to inspire your daily life': welcome to Copenhagen's new Korean design boutique
'We believe in the power of ordinary items to inspire your daily life': welcome to Copenhagen's new Korean design boutique
Wallpaper*

Hye the Store, a boutique celebrating the best of South Korean and Asian craft and creativity, has just opened in Copenhagen 's Nordhavn. It's a welcome addition to a revitalised northern harbourside district already home to design destinations…

click2houston.com - Nicole Nielsen - What can you change on your Norhill home? The city's design guidelines just took another turn
What can you change on your Norhill home? The city's design guidelines just took another turn
KPRC

HOUSTON – Proposed design guidelines for Houston's Norhill Historic District are headed back for review after the Houston Archaeological and Historical Commission voted Wednesday, Aug. 13, to rescind its conditional approval and create a…

tomshardware.com - Mark Tyson - Anti-drone chain gun with 50mm precision-guided ammunition unveiled - Northrop Grumman's Raid Hunter is designed to wipe out drone swarms and cruise missiles
Anti-drone chain gun with 50mm precision-guided ammunition unveiled - Northrop Grumman's Raid Hunter is designed to wipe out drone swarms and cruise missiles
Tom's Hardware

U.S. aerospace, defense and security giant Northrop Grumman thinks it has a solution that will provide short-range, layered air defense against the increasingly complex aerial threats we see in modern war. The new Raid Hunter uses the firm's Chain…

pcgamer.com - Justin Wagner - Witcher 3 designer says it wasn't easy to convince players its NPC simulation wasn't 'just fakery': 'People nowadays are interested in those kinds of details, and it really came to haunt us'
Witcher 3 designer says it wasn't easy to convince players its NPC simulation wasn't 'just fakery': 'People nowadays are interested in those kinds of details, and it really came to haunt us'
PC Gamer

It might seem silly to ask in our post-Red Dead horse testicles world, but how much exacting detail is too much? How much is not enough? Gamedev can go on forever if you don't prioritize the things that players actually notice, but if you're making…

fratellowatches.com - Gerard Nijenbrinks - Tried And Tested: The CIGA Design Hunter Titanium Skeleton Automatic
Tried And Tested: The CIGA Design Hunter Titanium Skeleton Automatic
Fratello | All About Watches

A continuation of the 2026 Hunter expansion with in-house caliber My first encounter with CIGA Design was with its Blue Planet model. In 2021, it won the Challenge Watch Prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), which obviously…

kristv.com - Padre Island skate park design nearly complete, could open by next summer
Padre Island skate park design nearly complete, could open by next summer
KRIS 6 News Corpus Christi

A $850,000 skate park on Padre Island is nearly ready to move into construction, bringing Corpus Christi one step closer to having a skate park in every city district. The project at Don and Sandy Billish Memorial Park is about 90% through its…

forbes.com - Sarah Hernholm - The $3.5 Trillion Bleisure Boom Reshaping The Future Of Work
The $3.5 Trillion Bleisure Boom Reshaping The Future Of Work
Forbes

Future of work is being impacted by the rise of bleisure travelers. The global bleisure travel market was valued at $816.24 billion in 2025 by Precedence Research, which projects it will reach $3.57 trillion by 2034. A separate 2025 estimate from…

dev.to - Ravindra Reddy Chitla - What Building Typing Games Taught Me About Designing Better Web Interactions
What Building Typing Games Taught Me About Designing Better Web Interactions
DEV Community

I am a digital marketer rather than a professional developer, so I didn't expect a project about children's typing practice to teach me much about frontend interaction. But while building GamesMom, I spent a surprising amount of time thinking about…

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