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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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations in late September, he said the word “artificial” in “artificial intelligence” made the technology sound fake.
First came the buttholes. Then the sparkles and gradients. Now, the next Big Tech AI branding trend has arrived. As the biggest artificial intelligence players introduce new agent capabilities, they’re all converging around the same visual shorthand: cute little guys.
You probably start your morning with some coffee to get your brain online. Classic choice. But for many of us, that buzz lasts only so long. When your energy begins to flag, you could pull some caffeinated trail mix out of your desk drawer as a midmorning snack.
The Austrian Alps are breathtaking on their own. A new rooftop lookout at an Austrian ski destination now doubles the view. Lech Mountain Mirror is a landscape installation on top of the Zugerbergbahn mountain station in Lech, Austria, just east of Liechtenstein and near the German border.
New Starbucks coffeehouses are getting smaller. The coffee chain announced Tuesday that it’s rolling out store concepts with a smaller physical footprint. Prototypes of the new coffeehouse opened last year in New York City and last month in San Antonio.
With a chatbot interface and agentic capabilities, the new AI web application Hark Pro checks the main boxes of a mass market AI release in 2026. But unlike the tools that have already been released by the large tech companies and frontier AI labs, Hark Pro is rethinking the core premise behind the…
For a mixed-use development, the Westlake 66 project in Hangzhou, China, was especially mixed up. Like many projects in this category, the development was initially devised to add a combination of offices, retail, hotels, and public space, weaving the different uses into a six-tower, multiblock…
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