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New Report Reveals 6 Top Summer 2026 Interior Design Trends
Personalizing homes with hobby spaces, customized storage and 'color maxxing' are trending this summer. Yelp Summer Home Trends Photo via Hema Persad Summertime and the living is easy and personal. Yelp's 2026 Summer Home Trends report gives a look…
Designing Physical Products That People Won't Want To Hide
Ali Aydan is the founder and CEO of DORIX, building Britain's smart access solutions legacy brand. Early in our smart lock development, the DORIX engineering team asked to add 4 millimeters to the depth of the housing. The change would have…
Time-Series Storage: Design Choices That Shape Cost and Performance
Normalizing series identity into a separate metadata table and referencing it by a compact ID reduces time-series storage by about forty-two percent in our experiment. Instead of repeating dimension strings like device name, region, and location on…
Disney Reveals Blockbuster Cost Of Designing Its Theme Parks
The cost of designing Dsiney's Paris parks has been revealed. (BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images) Disney's annual design budget for just one of its six theme park resorts is equivalent to the price of the most advanced battle tank in the United…
Recreation & Parks Seeking Community Input - The Future Of Play: Design Tomorrow Today
LEONARDTOWN, Md. — As part of a five-year master planning process, St. Mary's County Government's Department of Recreation & Parks (R&P) is updating the department's Land Preservation, Parks, and Recreation Plan. R&P is seeking community…
Designing a Brand: How Apple Built an Architectural Language of Glass and Order
In 2026, Apple marked fifty years since its founding. Over the past two decades, Apple has developed a consistent architectural language that extends its brand into the built environment, transforming stores, workplaces, and public-facing spaces…
Inspiration from nature carries design student to the top
b63b259a-546d-4fa8-8b3d-6f50760f3dbe The award-winning design in Toronto by Naomi Every, an interior design student at Sheridan College (Photograph supplied) Imaginative plans for a corporate library combining beehive imagery with the flowing…
Flying Furniture, Mobile Homes for Bees: Rimowa Design Prize Awarded in Berlin
The finalists in this year's annual Rimowa Design Prize are definitely out to save the world. The seven prize-winning designer teams, chosen from different design schools all around Germany, wanted to comfort lonely old people, help the…
Texas accuses Netflix of 'spying' on children and designing 'addictive' features in new suit
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a sweeping lawsuit Monday against Netflix, accusing the Hollywood streaming giant of “spying on” people in his state, including children, and collecting user data without consent.
Designers Say This Beloved Furniture Trend Is Fading
For some people, furniture refers to purely practical items that offer somewhere to sit, eat dinner, and lay down after a long day. (Bonus points if you can score these notoriously pricey pieces for less.) However, if you have a penchant for…
Maison Proust: an artfully designed refuge in Paris' Le Marais
Fresh off an early morning Eurostar service from London's St Pancras, I feel excited when my taxi pulls up outside Maison Proust, and I discover its serene location on a tree-lined Parisian backstreet. Getting out of the car I wonder for a moment…
*Better With Age x Vans Drop Two Silhouettes Designed to Be Endlessly Customized
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This new Android handheld has a crazy design and sub-$90 price tag
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority ANBERNIC's RG Rotate handheld has now gone on sale via its website. The handheld has a recommended starting price of $87.99, but is currently retailing for as low as $82.99. Expect a swiveling slider form factor…
What Happens When You Let 90 Kids Design a Birdhouse
Most of us have a pretty fixed idea of what a birdhouse looks like. A small wooden box, a round hole, maybe a little perch. It's one of those objects so familiar it barely registers anymore. Designer Taekhan Yun decided to blow that idea up…
Apple Developer app gains Liquid Glass design and WWDC 2026 iMessage stickers
There's a new version of the multi-platform Apple Developer app out today ahead of WWDC 2026. Apple Developer version 11.0 introduces a Liquid Glass design ahead of iOS 27. Apple's Developer app started life as the WWDC app before taking on the…
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