Whether that features a brilliant new hue that stands out out of your usual neutral palette, or shifting from skinny denims to a boyfriend silhouette, nice style is constructed from trying new things. Between balancing career, family, and discovering time for ourselves, stepping out the door with style daily can […]
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Fashion Design
The terms fashionista and fashion victim refer to someone who slavishly follows current fashions. By 1800, all Western Europeans have been dressing alike ; local variation grew to become first a sign of provincial culture and later a badge of the conservative peasant. Though completely different textile colours and patterns […]
Entertainment Design
Pro-censorship forces, including many politicians, typically cite a large number of “scientific studies” that allegedly prove fictional violence results in real-life violence. This does not mean that all sexual expression may be censored, however. Only a slim vary of “obscene” material can be suppressed; a term like “pornography” has no […]
the Dorset restaurant where luxurious food meets world class interior design
Light streams through bay windows into an uplifting space where posies of flowers colour-pop from white tabletops, velvet-covered bench seating is dotted with bright cushions and walls are decked in bold modern prints and vintage plates. This weekend, the candles are lit and the fire is crackling. Chidgey, a design […]
Visualizing Your Interior Design Virtually
When Jessica Shaw, director of interior design for The Turett Collaborative in New York City, took on an entirely virtual design project for a home in the Midwood neighborhood in Brooklyn in 2019, she never suspected she was learning skills that would become vital to her business in 2020. “I […]
Florentina Leitner is the womenswear winner in the first ever online global design graduate show
There is a scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal 1958 noir-thriller film, Vertigo, where the main character falls into a dark and menacing dream sequence. Ominous music plays as his acrophobia – the intense fear of heights – and infatuation for his friend’s wife weave into a beautiful nightmare where flower petals […]
Venmo launches credit card with focus on splitting payments and mobile design
Venmo is rolling out a credit card with a personal QR code that users can show friends when trying to split payments. PayPal PayPal Holdings Inc.’s Venmo said Monday that it was beginning the rollout of its credit card, betting that a mobile-oriented design and a rewards experience tailored to […]
Here’s how you measure the success of a UX design project
As designers, we want the products we build to be satisfying and easy to use, but how can we know that’s the case? We start by measuring the user experience with evidence rather than opinions. But can UX really be measured? Absolutely. By evaluating products with qualitative and quantitative methods, […]
How to find time to design again
So you like TNW? Then join our upcoming online event, TNW2020, you don’t want to miss it. For the past few months, I’ve noticed an increasing number of designers online complaining about their lack of time to design. They have a packed agenda full of meetings and, if they’re lucky, […]
‘I used to hate road cycling, now I design biking gear’
The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Remi Clermont, co-founder and co-owner of cycling clothing company Cafe du Cycliste. When Remi Clermont was a teenager, he was embarrassed that his father liked going road cycling. By road cycling, […]