Legendary FPS level designer Richard "Levelord" Gray dies at 68
Tributes pour in for the man behind iconic Duke Nukem 3D levels and much more.
Ars Technica1 min read
Design
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The first new sunscreen type in 25 years hits U.S. store shelves
For the first time in more than a quarter-century, Americans have a new option when shopping for sunscreen: a skin-protecting chemical that’s long been a go-to option in Europe and other parts of the world. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved bemotrizinol—sometimes called BEMT—in June.
Fast Company AI5 min read
How to make a YouTube banner with AI that fits every screen
To make a YouTube banner with AI, describe your channel in a prompt, upload a portrait or logo for the AI to follow, and generate the art at 16:9 and 2560 x 1440 with your name in the center safe area. Then fix any detail, download the file and upload it in YouTube Studio.
PicsArt Blog6 min read
Away is selling almost-new suitcases at a discount—and they’re going fast
Away’s aluminum carry-on sells for $625, but right now you can snag one for $436. A medium suitcase in navy usually goes for $345, but you can get it for $293. There’s a catch, though: Some of these bags may have a little scuff here or a dent there.
Fast Company AI4 min read
This pretty speaker is made from old melted Barbies
Your old Barbies could be turned into speakers, power banks, and more.Gomi, a sustainable U.K. design studio, put out a call for old Barbie dolls for its Childhood Memories Collection, a new collaboration with the Mattel-owned brand to give old plastic dolls a second life as tech products.The…
Fast Company AI2 min read
Patagonia just made a brilliant change to its website—and it could change the way we shop
On Patagonia’s website, starting today, you can shop for new and used clothing at the same time. The company first launched its resale platform, Worn Wear, nine years ago, making it a pioneer in the brand-owned secondhand clothing space.
Fast Company AI3 min readWhat Happened to the Desktop Metaphor?
The desktop metaphor gave users a visible model of files, folders, windows, and applications. Modern interfaces increasingly hide that structure in favor of...
Lobsters10 min read
This cool interactive visual argues that generative art began in a cave
Around 71,000 BCE, someone in a place now called Blombos Cave, on the southern coast of what is now South Africa, scratched crosshatched lines into a piece of ocher. No computer. No code. No prompt.
Fast Company AI5 min read
Graphic design isn’t dying. It’s expanding
It’s a liberating time to be a graphic designer. You would think so, anyway, after reading Jarrett Fuller’s new book, Graphic Designers After Graphic Design, published this fall by Princeton Architectural Press.
Fast Company AI23 min read
They’re cheap, they’re kitschy, and investment bankers love them
When strolling the hallways of his first internship in investment banking, Alex R. kept noticing small trinkets crowding the desks of executives and junior analysts alike, as if each workstation grew its own skyline made up of knickknacks.
Fast Company AI7 min read
The Trump administration just cut down a century’s worth of history at a D.C. golf course
Workers removed more than 500 trees over the weekend at a Washington, D.C., golf course that President Donald Trump is working to remodel. It happened like many of his other design projects around town: suddenly and without permission.
Fast Company AI4 min read
Duo the owl’s next big act is an animated series
Duo the owl has twerked on main, flash mobbed a Charli XCX concert, died, sent his ashes to Dua Lipa, and come back to life. His next big act? Starring in his own animated show. DuoTV is a new animated series that was created entirely by Duolingo’s in-house design studio.
Fast Company AI6 min read
Spredges, glitter, and lots of gold foil: Penguin is betting on deluxe book design to win over kids
This holiday season, you can give your child an actual Golden Ticket. It comes tucked inside a new special edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one of a slew of deluxe editions of books Penguin Young Readers is releasing this fall. The new volume is full of little surprises.
Fast Company AI7 min read
AI-pilled bosses and clients are turning designers into ‘pixel pushers’
Emily Foran, a creative director and graphic designer, has not been asked by clients to come up with an original idea from scratch in a year. “That’s kind of killing my soul,” Foran says.
Fast Company AI11 min read
Inside Mentha, Mintlify's new design system
Mentha is Mintlify's new design system, built with constraints, baked-in patterns, a cooler mint palette, and agents in mind.
Mintlify Blog4 min read
Agent skills for design and writing: what a non-code skill loads, and when it makes output worse
Design skills load 316 to 35,150 tokens when they trigger. What a non-code skill is, where it sits next to AGENTS.md and hooks, and when one makes output worse.
Stackness Blog8 min read
Which AI Model Is Best for Web Design? 5 Picks for 2026
Leaderboard rankings, prices and one honest limit for each model, plus a simple three-prompt test you can run yourself.Continue reading on Towards AI »
Towards AI1 min read
It’s not ‘AI,’ and it’s not ‘superintelligence.’ So, what is it?
When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations in late September, he said the word “artificial” in “artificial intelligence” made the technology sound fake.
Fast Company AI4 min read
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