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23andMe will keep offering customers its DNA testing services after being bought out of bankruptcy.
A lot of different trades powered the Industrial Revolution. As that movement motored into the 20th Century, a particularly crucial one was the patternmaker. When you hear “patternmaker” today you probably picture a seamstress and garments.
A few years ago, I decided to retrain as a neuroscientist. It was a leap into the unknown — no roadmap, just a desire to grow. I chose to approach this time of change with curiosity, and I started a weekly newsletter to document what I learned. Suddenly, my doubts became fuel for discovery.
London’s biggest and best-loved photography fair is turning 10.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have unveiled something delightfully geeky: LegoGPT, an AI model that builds Lego structures straight from text prompts. The study, published last Thursday, explains the mechanics in depth.
These strange-looking buses operate in rural Shikoku, Japan. They’re Toyota buses that have had an unusual proboscis added. The non-standard snout houses an extra axle fitted with steel wheels. Another of these axles, unseen, is tucked under the rear.
Love Wes Anderson, the visionary filmmaker known for his meticulously crafted visual style and distinctive storytelling? Then you’ll be excited to learn he’ll have his personal archives displayed for the first time in a landmark exhibition at London’s Design Museum later this year.
Though Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is crawling with vampires and steeped in supernatural mythology, the film’s monsters are far from the most magical thing about it. Those aspects of Sinners’ story are exciting, and they help illustrate many of its ideas about the US’ legacy of racism.
In today’s business landscape, standing still is the fastest way to become irrelevant. Industries you’d never expect to change—like tobacco—are turning disruption into an art form.
A loss for Google.
Glossy magazines and digital marketing can’t always deliver the connections that luxury brands want to foster with their top customers. Physical hospitality experiences are where we’re seeing the most creativity.
When news broke that Liquid Death had pulled out of the U.K., the marketing community flocked to LinkedIn with a collective “told you so!” The brand was “too disruptive,” they claimed. “They should have built it from the ground up!” “They didn’t understand the U.K. market!”
Brands are turning to smaller creators for deeper, more trusted connections with their audiences. According to Paula Albuquerque, managing partner at Ykone UK, it’s not about replacing celebrity with micro; it’s about matching creator tiers to campaign goals.
A striking new chapter has begun for Bath’s Trinity Church, which has been brought to life as a creative coworking space. Once the beating heart of the city’s Afro-Caribbean community, the church had been left derelict since its closure in 2011.
The campaign, ‘Green Cross, Red Cross,’ aims to repurpose this familiar symbol, transforming it into a powerful new media platform to help prevent critical blood shortages.
If we create something with purpose, we’ve designed it. It’s not an accident. An axe handle is designed, and so is a symphony. Some things, though are designy. The designer’s fingerprints are all over it.
She was, according to US wartime counter-intelligence officer Lt Paul Jensen, “our No 1 contact in French Morocco”, supporting the allied mission “at great risk to her own life – and I mean that literally. We would have been quite helpless without her.”
I’ve been reading about soft power a lot lately. Soft power…. It’s a term we typically associate with nations—with their ability to influence, attract and persuade without coercion.
It’s worth bearing this in mind as we recall how last week, following ChatGPT’s 4o image generation update, it was let loose on the world and a trend quickly emerged. Users began creating images in the style of Studio Ghibli’s animated characters.
That much is obvious at the WFA’s Global Marketer Week in Brussels, where Godin has just addressed an audience so vast that the WFA’s own president, David Wheldon, a former Coke marketer hardly prone to being starstruck, was willing to stand behind the AV desk up in the gods so as not to miss hi
It is, by now, a well-known fact that Yorgos Lanthimos’ films are not for the faint of heart.
Startups want to turn kelp and algae into food, skincare products, and environmentally-friendly cattle feed — if anyone will ever take seaweed seriously.
London’s movie mecca has been an indelible part of the capital’s cultural landscape since it opened in the ‘60s. Now under threat of closure, GQ spoke to actors, filmmakers and more about why losing it would be catastrophic
In 1965, a chance confession by an astronaut lead to a dramatic fallout encompassing NASA, congress, and a change to how people are fed in space. John W.
Mental health among young people is at crisis levels. In 2017, an estimated one in nine children had a diagnosable mental health condition, but today, that figure has risen to one in five. That’s five children in every classroom.
For over two decades, Zeff has quietly built a reputation for innovation in the world of sustainable product design. Founded in 2001 by William Hayes, the Bristol-based company is best known for the Ubin — the world’s first 100% recycled and recyclable recycling bin.
These logical persuasions are known as RTBs (reasons to believe).
This year, Transport for London – or TfL – turns 25. Some commuters probably feel like they have aged double that in the same stretch of time.
Like most people, my career has been a journey of exploration and learning. My first proper job, if you call it that, was working as a team leader in a call center. I discovered that I was pretty good at talking and selling to customers, but also that managing a team wasn’t a walk in the park.
The fundamental question of ethics — and arguably of all philosophy — is about how to live before you die. What is a good life? This is a remarkably complex question,
Set between Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986), Alien: Romulus, the latest addition to the sci-fi horror franchise, eschews the slick look of the last two instalments and takes us back to the chunky, grimy aesthetic of the original films; it’s a style that has seen the film nominated for a Best Visual E
Being a “human” brand involves being approachable and relatable in an industry dominated by corporate jargon and robotic interactions.
Spanning centuries and borders, the sandwich is one of the most universally familiar dishes. Simple, portable and versatile, the appeal of a meal between two slices of bread endures. It’s an optimal canvas, infinite in scope.
Small deals are leading unprecedented M&A activity in travel tech right now, and you’ll see that they dominate the list below. As we recently reported, private equity firms have accumulated an estimated $3 trillion that they need to deploy, and roughly $300 billion of that is earmarked for tech.
Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist Katherine Duclos has been sharing her LEGO mosaic art on Instagram over the years and I’m forever intrigued every time they pop up.
Recently a LinkedIn post by creative designer Priyanka Rana went viral, igniting a passionate response from creatives all sharing one poignant sentiment – the graphic design industry is in crisis. Whether we like it or not the skills that define a graphic designer have changed.
Jacobsen has long been a respected name in brewing, but as the drinking landscape shifts and craft beer continues to evolve, a refresh was in order.
If you book a stay at the eriro hotel, aim to arrive before 16:30 in order to catch the last gondola up the mountain, because once the slopes close, it’s just you, amidst a glistening expanse of snow, and the majestic alpine peaks that surround you.
Branding is more than a visual identity—it’s an operating system for businesses. This is the premise behind James Hurst’s Use Design To Design Change, a book that challenges conventional branding narratives and provides a hands-on toolkit for building brands with intention.
We’ve been talking for some time about the death of social media. But now, here in 2025, it feels like things are really coming to a head. You can’t have failed to notice it.
We explore the pivotal role of the brand audit in the modern design process and get expert input on best practices.
When you take on a new client as a designer or agency, it’s standard practice t…
Focus has always been a challenge for me, but I’ve always felt there should be a better way. I’ve tried accountability groups, productivity apps and all sorts of other gimmicks for getting more done. But on their own, nothing seemed to work.
January is as good a place to start as any. That’s when Google began ending third-party cookies in Chrome among one percent of traffic, which equates to around 30 billion users. The move gave ad executives something to test.
However, for some, the figures, which represent continued flat or declining revenue performance, signal the need for a more root-and-branch turnaround approach for the entity that is still thought of as the largest marketing communications agency in the world — even if its market cap, which nears
It may come as a surprise, but the human experiences of taste, hearing, smell, touch, and sight, share the computing capacity of technologies like the pocket calculator, hard disk, USB Key, and computer network, respectively.
News broke earlier this week that Tesla had laid off its entire 40-person marketing and growth content team, barely a year after starting it. Perhaps the biggest surprise for many was that Tesla even had a marketing and growth content team. Ford spent $2.
The platform tries out new illustrations and a custom typeface to help it compete as a serious mental health coach service. The Headspace look is famous.
The move fits into the growing sober curious and dry tripping trends, largely driven by Gen Z, which aim to add a clear-headed layer to traditionally hard-partying events.
Evolution Music’s Evovinyl is a plant-based vinyl record made of sugarcane bioplastics that ditches the use of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a synthetic thermoplastic that contributes to damaging the environment, to devise compostable records.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week was the week chatbot-powered search engines were supposed to arrive.