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High-end, Quiet Design Steers Worldwide Yacht Industry to New Heights
MILAN — As designers worldwide flex their potential in the nautical world, overall sales of the industry continue to rise amid one of the most complex economies of all time. As the Genoa International Boat Show show kicked off in Italy on…
From Buildings to Worldbuilding: Designing the Narratives of Space
The most innovative and impactful design projects arise from the intersection of different fields. The architecture community has always borrowed from, or been inspired by, other forms of cultural production such as film, photography, literature…
Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis?
Humans can be a frisky bunch, and it wasn't very long after Tesla Autopilot started letting drivers go hands-free before people decided to post footage of themselves having sex from the driver's seat. Recently, The San Francisco Standard…
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adfest gets a new logo designed by Santosh Padhi and Into Creative
adfest has unveiled a new logo designed by Santosh Padhi, founder, CCO and chairman of Into Creative, Mumbai. The new identity comes ahead of adfest 2027, which will mark the festival's 30th year. The logo takes inspiration from the lotus and the…
Huawei unveils Mate 90 phones, leans on homegrown chip design to offset US curbs
Huawei Technologies unveiled its Mate 90 smartphone series on Thursday, betting on its in-house operating system and redesigned chip architecture to boost its performance in the face of US curbs on shipments of advanced semiconductors. SCROLL TO…
Why Designer Brands Is Closing its Corporate Offices for One Day
Designer Brands Inc. (DBI) will close its corporate office on Friday so 1,200 employees worldwide and volunteer with nonprofit and community organizations as part of the firm's second annual Step Up and Serve day. DBI staff have the option of…
Federal panel gives final approval to new design for White House security screening center
A federal panel has approved final design and building plans for an underground facility to screen visitors to the White House, the latest advancement in the Trump administration's efforts to amp up security while also reshaping the aesthetics of…
Designers Already Prototype Hardware - Now They're Prototyping Demand Too
Every product that finds its way onto these pages eventually meets the same crossroads: the moment a designer takes the thing public. For physical product creators chasing something original enough that established retailers won't touch it…
Camera Industrial Design Starts on the Test Bench: Five Decisions Made Before the First Sketch
Industrial design for a camera usually starts with the form: sketches, renders, the first printed housing. Then it turns out the module doesn't fit, autofocus misses, and the housing runs hot. Every one of those findings costs another iteration. At…
Amplio Pharma Reports Positive Early Clinical Results for NovoBioJect, Designed to Make the World's Most-Used Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Work for More Patients
A single dose of NovoBioJect increased the active form of methotrexate inside patients' immune cells by 38%, a first step toward a potential next-generation first-line treatment for rheumatoid arthritis First clinical proof of principle. In an…
Manolo Blahnik's New Harrods Boutique Features 300 of the Legendary Designer's Shoe Sketches
Manolo Blahnik is back at Harrods with a new boutique at the retailer's Knightsbridge flagship in London. Located within Harrods ' fifth floor “Shoe Heaven,” a 42,000 square-foot space dedicated to fine footwear, the new boutique…
I feel good? How hotel designers are engineering our emotions
My Dad likes to remind me that wherever you go, you're packing yourself. But increasingly hotels are looking to unpack you — and send you home calmer, happier or more connected to yourself. In the quaint colonial city of Marinilla, Colombia…
Swedish researchers builtd an 'AI scientist' that designs its own test
Researchers in Sweden have developed an AI scientist capable of generating scientific hypotheses, designing experiments and interpreting results. The team combined multiple Large Language Models (LLMs), large databases and physical laboratory…
RIP Microsoft Publisher: As a Pro Designer, Here Are the 8 Alternatives I Actually Recommend
Long live Publisher. Microsoft is officially winding down support for the Windows graphic design app that's been a staple for the last 35 years. Beloved for its simplicity and effectiveness, it was always up to the task of creating brochures…
Indigenous groups given just 2 months to consult on Pacific Link pipeline designation
Indigenous communities along the route for the newly announced West Coast oil pipeline were given just two months for consultations on whether the pipeline should be designated a project of national interest — and that was still more than…
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