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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.
Finding happiness in the ever-demanding world of the creative industries can often feel like it’s just out of reach. We pour our hearts and souls into our work, often grappling with the pressures of deadlines, self-doubt and the relentless pursuit of perfection.
With practically 14 million people calling Tokyo home, the largest city on the planet is also one of the most densely populated.
What does being productive mean to you? Being at your desk at 6am to get work done before the onslaught of Slack notifications and meetings? Tackling your inbox so that the number of unread emails is only in double digits? Getting through your never-ending to-do list?
Today is International Women’s Day and to celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of the 50 most influential women in architecture and design. Having joined the Museum of Modern Art in 1994, Paola Antonelli is now the institution’s senior curator and founding director of research and development.
Rivian has unveiled not only the expected R2 midsize SUV, but also surprised with the introduction of their previously unannounced smaller SUV, the R3, along with its performance variant, the R3X (in the few hours since the event these two are already dominating social media).
Alyssa Shannon was on her morning commute from Oakland to Sacramento, where she worked as an advanced-practice nurse at the university hospital, when NASA called to tell her that she had been selected for a Mars mission. She screamed and pulled off the highway.
Founded in 2014 by award-winning Australian pastry chef Terri Mercieca, Happy Endings is an ice cream brand defined by colourful chaos.
When I was a little kid I had a friend who was born on February 29, the “leap day” we add to that month every four years. I remember we used to tease him by saying that he was only three years old.
Logo Rhythm: Band Logos that Rocked the World (on Kickstarter) features more than 90 design stories behind iconic band logos from the 1960s to present day. “Many of the band logo design trailblazers are no longer with us. Some of their stories have been lost in the mists of time.
The government-funded organisation, which distributes public money to arts projects, recently changed its guidance on political matters.
For reasons of access, we haven’t seen any work from industrial design studios in Thailand since 2013.
I am standing on the sand at Scheveningen, The Hague’s most famous beach resort, in the act of niksen, the Dutch term for doing absolutely nothing. I try not to think about whether I am really doing nothing if I am standing on a beach.
“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would
Scientists put on their barista aprons and found out.
Fashion still remains perhaps the biggest offender when it comes to waste and emissions generated by any given industry. Every year, 40 million tonnes of clothes find their way into landfills and third-world countries that are less than equipped to deal with this onslaught of wasted fabric.
Just over a decade ago, Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly private digital cash for the internet.
Video games can be arduous. But real life is hard enough. Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.
And not just at the holidays. I’ve been covering America’s homeless crisis at Vox all year.
Controversy erupted online when an X user employed artificial intelligence to ‘complete’ Keith Haring’s Unfinished Painting (1989).
During CES 2024, Santa Monica-based AI startup rabbit introduced r1, a handheld and touchscreen artificial intelligence device that works like a walkie-talkie with camera functionality. The main premise of the r1 is that it does what any app can do without needing a smartphone.
A little more than a year ago, Elon Musk began his reign at Twitter with an elaborately staged pun. On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, he posted a tweet with a video that showed him carrying a sink through the lobby of the company’s San Francisco headquarters.
In Saga, Japan, a renovation project by CASE-REAL has transformed an 80-year-old traditional Japanese house into a craft beer brewery, named Whale Brewing.
Bettr isn’t just any old coffee brand. Founded in 2011 and based in Singapore, it’s Southeast Asia’s first certified B Corporation and is committed to bettering our planet through providing holistic vocational programs to educate and empower marginalised communities.
The world’s in a rocky place right now. But the good news is that whatever happens to the economy in 2024, graphic design will be in demand… perhaps more than ever.