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15 innovative, wacky airplane seat designs
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Travel season is approaching, which means families and solo adventurers scrounging together funds for a summer getaway. If they plan on flying to their destination, they have a record…
MIT's virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool
Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument's final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that painstaking process with their new virtual violin. It's a…
Inside the Singapore design showcase at Milan Design Week 2026
From Apr 21 to Apr 26, Foro Buonaparte 54 in Milan's Brera Design District became a slice of Singapore. The venue hosted Prototype Island, a DesignSingapore Council showcase presented during Milan Design Week 2026, alongside the 64th edition of…
From Lighting to Modular Systems: ArchDaily's Selection of 13 Architect-Designed Objects at Milan Design Week 2026
Each spring, Milan Design Week 2026 transforms the city into a distributed platform for design culture, where prototypes, product launches, and research-driven explorations coexist across multiple scales, including a growing presence of…
These 4 Emerging Designers Prove That Fashion Is Art
Though celebrated at Monday's Met Gala, “Fashion is Art” is a defining ethos that pulses through the industry year-round, shaping creativity on and off the carpet. The Met Gala 2026 carpet dress code is ‘Fashion is Art' while…
What Skilled Outdoor Contractors Handle That Designers Do Not
A stunning outdoor plan on paper holds little value if the right hands aren't there to execute it. Designers bring vision through plant palettes, spatial layouts, and material selections. But shaping raw land, solving drainage problems, and…
New Smile: AI-driven design at Texas Dental Implant Center
HOUSTON – Make 2026 the year of reinvention — reclaiming confidence, health and quality of life with full-arch dental solutions. At the Texas Dental Implant Center, Dr. Michel Azer and recent patient Mohannad Saleh show that modern…
It took 40 years for technology to catch up to this zipper design
In 1985, the Innovative Design Fund placed an ad in Scientific American offering up to $10,000 to support clever prototypes for clothing, home decor, and textiles. William Freeman PhD '92, then an electrical engineer at Polaroid and now an MIT…
7 'Slow Decorating' Rules Design Experts Swear By for a More Timeless Home
Whether you've just settled into a large, multi-room home or a compact city apartment, it's common to feel the urge to decorate everything as quickly as possible. It's understandable—living in a space that feels unfinished can make it hard…
This Korean Partition Uses A Periscope-Inspired Design To Reflect The Sky In Your Room
Most of us living in cities have gotten used to a very particular kind of light. It comes in flat and filtered through glass, bounced off neighboring buildings, and stripped of any real sense of time. Morning looks a lot like afternoon. The sky, if…
Sam Smith Wears Custom Look by Their Partner, Designer Christian Cowan, to the 2026 Met Gala
What's better than walking the Met Gala red carpet with your partner? Wearing something they designed for the occasion. Sam Smith and their partner, designer Christian Cowan, attended the 2026 Met Gala together — both in custom looks by none…
'It meant we got the design right': Resident Evil Requiem's producer on the DLSS5 Grace Ashcroft debacle
Back in March, Nvidia revealed unto the world DLSS5, the next version of its upscaling and frame generation tech. It was ugly as sin, turning Resident Evil Requiem's Grace Ashcroft into, in the words of our own James, yassified Instagram models.
I'm stoked for the iPhone Fold, but there's something else that's a much higher priority than a thin design
Whether Apple releases its first foldable device later this year, or delays it to 2027, I know a lot of people are going to focus on the design of the iPhone Fold. And why shouldn't they, especially after the ridiculous thinness we saw with the…
B-52J Commercial Engine Replacement Program Passes Critical Design Review
The U.S. Air Force has announced that the B-52 Stratofortress bomber's Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP) has passed the Critical Design Review (CDR). Following this milestone, the service says it can start the modifications to replace…
Leaked iPhone 18 Pro images reveal shrinking dynamic island - and it fixes one of the ugliest things about Apple's iconic design
Apple is hard at work on the iPhone 18 Pro line. Not only is the company predicted to use a more aggressive pricing strategy for it, but it'll also be the first phone released under John Ternus as CEO, making it a big deal. But what will make the…
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