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A beautiful interface isn't created by random colors. The right color palette can increase usability, improve brand recognition, and guide users toward important actions. Here's a simple process I follow when designing products: ✅ 1. Start with Your Brand Personality Ask yourself: • Professional or playful? • Premium or affordable? • Modern or traditional? Examples: 🔵 Blue = Trust, security, prof…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 13 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07943-0 Rethinking architectural education post-disaster: an analytical framework for curricular transformation after the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi illustrate how the renewed global fascination with Frida Kahlo is creating unexpected opportunities for 3D printing in medical design, museum experiences, fashion, and collectible art. The post Frida-Mania Returns: Why Frida Kahlo Still Captivates Museums, Media, and Makers appeared on Fabbaloo .

Dear Frances offers the latest take on ballet flats, offering ‘a glove-like fit wearability’ – which is fine if you have nice feet When is a shoe not a shoe? On sale this month is a pair that seems to pose the question – the no shoe-shoe is the work of the cult brand Dear Frances and the latest in a steady march of shoes that are barely there; a take on naked dressing but for the foot. The Balla …

Bedrooms no longer rely on a bed and two matching nightstands to create visual interest. Across these spaces, designers are using oversized headboards, upholstered panels, wood cladding, murals, artwork, integrated storage, and architectural lighting to transform the wall behind the bed into the focal point of the room. Some installations extend across the entire wall,... The post Designers Are T…

The reflection of infinity enters a redevelopment of a park in the city of Gyumri in northern Armenia. The orientation of the pavilion is towards the Sev berd, an important nineteenth-century fort, and the events in the history of this place. The pavilion serves as an observation point covered with a mirroring element. This reflection connects the statue of Mother Armenia to another important ele…

Nestled in the valleys of Mingling Mountains near Yixing, China's "Pottery Capital," the Earth Valley Theater is a pioneering 9,200-square-meter open-air venue dedicated to human-avian interaction. Designed as an integrated "total work of art" ( Gesamtkunstwerk ), the project transcends traditional boundaries between architecture and landscape. Conceived as an alternative to traditional, anthropo…

IntroductionThe rapid expansion of AI-generated art tools has transformed creative production, yet its psychological mechanisms in shaping design outcomes remain underexplored. This study examines the associations between perceived usefulness of AI-generated art tools and self-reported creative design performance through three parallel mediating pathways: artistic perception, cognitive engagement…

Bent by Spring is a suspended bamboo canopy conceived as both seasonal marker and urban stage. Commissioned by Power Station of Art for the Shanghai International Flower Show, the public installation occupies the sunken entrance plaza of Gucheng Park（the old city park）, along the must-visit tourist route connecting The Bund and Yu Garden. Framed by the dense texture of Shanghai's old city and fac…

This year’s World Cup serves up yet more soulless, corporate animal slop to leave fans pining for the days of unique talismans World Cup Willie marched on to the scene in 1966 with a spiky mane, bovver boy stance, bulbous brogues and – intriguingly for a World Cup held entirely in England – a union jack shirt. The product of a five-minute sketch by children’s illustrator Reg Hoye, who went on to …

On Sunday Axiom Space and Prada unveiled the cooling inner garment that NASA’s Artemis astronauts will wear under their space suits on the moon

Valaya is a Sanskrit word that refers to a protective circle, something that surrounds, holds, and safeguards what lies within. At Valaya, architecture unfolds through this idea of protection. In a time when houses are often driven by image and visual statements, Valaya begins with a more fundamental question: How can a home in today's climate remain open without becoming vulnerable? Valaya respo…

From June 10-12, 2026, 3daysofdesign returns to Copenhagen with a city-wide program of exhibitions, installations, talks, and showroom presentations organized around the theme "Make This Moment Matter." Taking place across eight Design Districts throughout the Danish capital, this year's festival brings together design brands, cultural institutions, studios, and practitioners to explore contempor…

Australian artist, director, and BAFTA-nominated producer Liam Young creates imaginary worlds as a way of thinking through the futures we fear, desire, and are already making. As a creator and designer of atmospheres, he proposes speculative landscapes reflecting the possibilities of a world to come, whether ideal or truthfully unsettling. In his worldbuilding practice across the film, television…

My cousin, Ruth Artmonsky, who has died aged 94, was a pioneer in the commercial use of psychometric testing. Together with her second husband, Roger Holdsworth, and their associate Peter Saville, she was a founder in 1977 of the consultancy Saville & Holdsworth (later SHL), which started in their living room and went on to become a global corporation with offices in 30 countries. After selling h…

OUNASS STAGE in Dubai was conceived as more than a conventional retail environment. Positioned somewhere between gallery, installation, and boutique, the project explores how contemporary retail spaces can serve as platforms for cultural exchange, storytelling, and spatial experimentation. Designed by VAUST for Ounass, the concept translates the raw atmosphere of Berlin's contemporary art scene i…

title: "CSS First + Thin Component Wrapper: A 10KB Component Library Practice" description: "From UnoCSS back to native CSS, a design token-driven component library solution. Four-layer CSS architecture, minimal Vue components, bundle size analysis, and a comparison of maintainability, showing how to build a 10KB component library with 500 lines of code." tags: [vue, css, designsystem, architectu…

Glass furniture has moved far beyond the standard coffee table. Designers are bending, tinting, layering, and shaping glass into chairs, desks, shelves, cabinets, and dining tables that function as both furniture and sculpture. These pieces stand out because they occupy space without blocking it. Transparent surfaces allow light, shadows, reflections, and surrounding materials to remain... The po…

The proliferation of smart technology has led to the diversification and randomization of indoor sound sources. This necessitates a more nuanced consideration of user subjective experiences in indoor soundscape design. Consequently, identifying the perceptual dimensions of smart home soundscapes has become a critical issue in indoor sound environment design. Accordingly, this study aimed to ident…

Somerset House, London Escher’s paradoxical geometries and impossible gravities may baffle the mind – yet even his wildest works were never just fanciful, as this fun and gripping show makes clear We think we know the world of Maurits Cornelis Escher with its mind-bending staircases and buildings that impossibly twist upon themselves. Yet a shocking glimpse of reality intrudes in Somerset House’s…