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Meet the 2025 Royal Designers for Industry
On 28 November 2025, the Royal Society for Arts announced the appointment of five new Royal Designers for Industry, as well as two Honorary Royal Designers for Industry. The prestigious accolade was established in 1936 and is awarded to creatives…
Cheers to Cirò: This 2000 Year Old Wine Has Gained Italy's Top Wine Designation
The patchwork of parcelled vineyard in the Ciro territory makes for interesting terroir driven wines. Calabria's most important wine appellation has finally received the appropriate validation of its wines through an upgrade from DOC to DOCG in…
People Are Revealing The Modern Home Design Trends They Secretly Hate, And It's Absolutely Brutal
'Don't try making your house like that in Connecticut, where you'd rather spend eight months out of the year cozying up on full-house carpet, 'cause it's freakin cold lol.' —Anonymous, 72, Tennessee 'I got a deep, square sink during my…
Apple just accidentally changed smartphone design forever
Perhaps the true mark of an iconic gadget is that it influences the future of design across the industry. From the iMac to the iPhone, Apple is responsible for plenty of devices that changed the face of tech. And now it's done it again – for…
Snap Reaches One Billion, Meta's New XR Apps, OpenAI's Ive Teases Design, Suno AI Settles
You'd think Thanksgiving week would bring the tech news cycle to heel for a few days. The streets and freeways here in So Cal are eerily empty but not the news. It's not Thanksgiving week anywhere else in the world, so it keeps turning. French…
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How Kate Middleton Is Showing Off Her Interior Design Expertise at New 'Forever Home'
Kate Middleton and Prince William recently moved their family to a new 'forever home,' Forest Lodge in Windsor After showcasing her interior design skills at past royal residences, Princess Kate will have plenty to work with in the family's new…
Diversifying The S&P 500: SMMD's Design Beats VXF ETF (NYSEARCA:VXF)
The iShares Russell 2500 ETF offers superior risk-adjusted returns and diversification compared to the popular Vanguard Extended Market ETF. SMMD trades at a lower P/E and P/B, provides a higher yield, and has less concentration risk and lower…
Designers Say 'Retro Design' Is Making a MAJOR Comeback-Here's How to Pull It Off
What is retro design, exactly? It's easy to assume that it's used as an umbrella term, referring to older styles and aesthetics in general. However, that's not the case at all. Retro design is a specific style that draws inspiration from a certain…
What the Hollywood awards season can mean for an Australian designer
This story is part of the November 29 edition of Good Weekend. See all 14 stories. For fashion designer Alex Perry, the annual Hollywood awards season is like the footy grand final, Wimbledon and the Olympics all rolled into one. Over five months…
Nintendo's secret to becoming a design powerhouse? Developers who have stayed at the company for decades
Nintendo is home to some of the most beloved characters in the video game industry—Mario, Pikachu, Kirby, and many others. But inside the company itself is another cast of beloved characters—the army of developers that has stuck with…
Oscar-Winning 'Wicked' Costume Designer Paul Tazewell Boards Indonesian Biopic 'Rose Pandanwangi' (EXCLUSIVE)
Paul Tazewell, the Oscar-winning costume designer behind “Wicked,” has joined the creative team of “ Rose Pandanwangi,” an Indonesia-Philippines co-production about celebrated seriosa singer Rose Pandanwangi, the…
Home design: A mid-century refuge, heavy on the modern
A Lorne Park house built in the late 1960s and overhauled by Orangeink Design — a project that won the firm a 2025 Architizer A+ Award — is a perfect illustration of how ideas about modern design evolve over time. The leafy…
A student-designed 2026 calendar celebrates creativity and inclusion
Mirra Charitable Trust unveiled the sixth edition of its annual student-designed calendar at Gandhi Nagar Ladies Club on November 25, celebrating the march of neurodivergent young adults into pursuits largely viewed as the preserves of the…
This Swedish Designer Just Turned Childhood Puzzles Into Furniture
You know that satisfying click when two puzzle pieces finally snap together? Swedish designer Gustaf Westman has blown that feeling up to furniture-size with his latest creation, the Puzzle Shelf, and honestly, it's the kind of playful design we…
Telangana aspires to emerge as India's design capital
A Centre of Design Excellence is proposed to be established in Hyderabad by 2030 as part of Telangana government's focus on embedding design in governance, business and education and eventually transform the State into India's design capital. The…
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