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Are British Designers Steering the Fashion Industry?
Last night's 2025 Fashion Awards, hosted in London by the British Fashion Council, honored this year's most prolific British designers. Jonathan Anderson claimed Designer of the Year for a third consecutive year, Grace Wales Bonner received…
Secure By Design: Financial Systems For Climate Resilience
Hand of touching network connecting the human dots icon in business project management. Teamwork organization and brainstorm concept Across much of the world, people still struggle to access even the most basic financial tools. Not because they…
How Airport Restaurant Design Elevates The Modern Traveler's Journey
IDG creates memorable dining experiences at airport restaurants. It doesn't take a frequent flier to know that waiting in an airport for your flight can be an annoying, stressful and often disorienting experience filled with sensory overload from…
Tolu Coker: the London-Nigerian designer everybody's talking about
Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Last night, the cream of British fashion descended upon the Royal…
Trump says he's rebuilding Dulles airport, calling it 'terrible' and 'incorrectly designed
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration will embark on a reconstruction of Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia. “We're also going to rebuild Dulles airport because it's not a good…
Grand Designs star calls King Charles' Poundbury estate 'intolerable
McCloud, 66, was presenting a keynote lecture at the V&A Museum last week READ MORE: Grand Designs reveals first contenders for its coveted House of the Year awards - from a unique home for two families overlooking the Cornish coast to a former…
MIT drug hunters are using AI to design completely new antibiotics
Inside a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology late last year, scientists gave an AI system a new task: designing entirely new molecules for potential antibiotics from scratch. Within a day or two—following a few months of…
Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold Debuts As A 10-Inch Tablet Designed To Fit Inside Your Pocket
Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Z TriFold in its home market. The long-anticipated folding phone features two hinges and a standard slab screen on the back. It hits shelves in Korea on December 12, 2025, with a U.S. launch planned for…
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These Retro Color Combos Are Back-and Designers Are Obsessed
As homeowners and designers move further away from minimalism and all-neutral palettes, retro and bold color combos are making a comeback, with more people taking a chance on mixing and matching shades in interesting ways. Many of these combos feel…
Yelp's 2026 Design Forecast: The Trends Reshaping How We Live
The numbers tell a story that design magazines have been hinting at for months. Yelp's latest trend report, analyzing millions of consumer searches between 2023 and 2024, confirms what forward-thinking designers already suspected: the home is…
'Players are selfish': Fallout 2's Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy
Chris Avellone wants you to have a good time. People often ask creatives—especially those in careers some dream of entering—”how did you get started?” Video game designers are no exception, and Avellone says that one of…
The tech world should abandon minimalist design in favor of more 'expressive' options says Samsung's first Chief Design Officer, Mauro Porcini
Technology has long been defined by minimalist aesthetics, with tech executives espousing smart and sleek design. But Samsung's newly-minted President and Chief Design Officer, Mauro Porcini, is looking to change that. The tech world should adopt a…
Designers Are Calling It: Here Are the Biggest Kitchen Backsplash Trends for 2026
The kitchen might be the stomach of the home, but with so many appliances and not much room for anything else, it can be hard to create a space that's both pretty and practical. Fortunately, a beautiful backsplash can make all the difference. While…
How Chanel's Collection Design Has Changed Under Matthieu Blazy
On Tuesday, Chanel held its Métiers d'Art show — the first by artistic director Matthieu Blazy — underground in New York City's Bowery subway station. It was quite a change of decor compared to the last time Chanel held this…
Rethinking Prefabrication From Standardization to Design Freedom
Generative AI (Gemini / Google DeepMind). Concept: Eduardo Souza / ArchDaily Once synonymous with monotony, “prefabricated” buildings often bring to mind the gray, repetitive housing blocks of the postwar era. But that image no longer…
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