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Exploring design strategies to create more inclusive user experiences for left-handed individuals.
An exploration of the emerging design trends that are expected to dominate in 2025, highlighting innovative techniques and technologies shaping the industry.
As MPs head off on their summer recess, unpaid carers from across the UK came together, via huge LED screens, to fight for their right to respite care in a first-of-its-kind protest outside parliament, created in partnership with Uncommon Creative Studio and Carers Trust.
In this private five-casa quinta by the Ria Formosa, it’s all about blending rustic charm with modern comfort
When was the last time you checked in with yourself? This week marks International Self-Care Day, a timely nudge to pause and reflect. Given how challenging the past few years have been, we asked the Creative Boom community to share their best tips for staying well during tough times.
First there was the Ami, then came the Topolino. Citroën continues to deploy the beach-car chic of its tiny EV to bolster its fun credentials, but Fiat is not being left behind.
I walked into Blackdot’s tattoo studio in Austin’s east side on a sweltering May afternoon. After shaking my sweat-soaked hand, founder and CEO Joel Pennington led me up into an office building and opened the door to a small, three-room space.
Nestled high in the Swiss Alps, the Sphinx Observatory offers a unique experience for anyone traveling to Jungfraujoch. It stands as the second highest observatory in the country, so be ready for some of the most beautiful views of the Alps.
Although Eileen Gray (1878–1976), the Irish-born architect and furniture designer, only realised a handful of buildings in her lifetime, her impact on architecture has been hugely significant – despite recognition coming late.
Relying on ChatGPT significantly affects critical thinking abilities, according to a new study. This included the participants’ decreased brain activity, a weaker sense of authorship, and inability to remember what they wrote — which even continued when they weren’t allowed to use an LLM.
While not everyone bought a camper van during the COVID-19 pandemic, we all probably know someone who did. As people with money suddenly found themselves with time on their hands and no particular place to be, sales of compact but full-featured Class B camper vans soared, increasing 91.
Before you step aboard Belmond’s Royal Scotsman, one of the world’s most luxurious trains, you’ll walk down a red carpet to the skirl of bagpipes. The captain will glance at you and say, ‘Just remember, the train never waits.’
Filmmaker Wes Anderson has had a prolific career, championing his signature sepia-tinted, dolly-heavy style, immediately recognizable from the first couple seconds of any new project.
After a bumpy first half of 2025 for WPP, chief executive Mark Read has announced plans to step down in December. Read has spent 30 years with WPP, including seven as CEO. His successor has yet to be confirmed, but the business said a search is underway.
Texas is poised to become the first state governed by Republicans with a law requiring manufacturers to make repair parts and info available. Texas is poised to become the first state governed by Republicans with a law requiring manufacturers to make repair parts and info available.
In this new reality, context is king. A rushed tap of a payment card to replenish a household item is a world apart from an indulgent boutique browse. Decisions are shaped by intent in the moment – mood, setting, and circumstance.
After years of growth, industry turmoil has left the accessibility community at a standstill. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.
The beloved read-it-later app Pocket is shutting down, and Mozilla is giving current users until Oct. 8 to download saved items from their lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.
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).