Tag: Design

Phyllis Pressman, Luxury Superstore Matriarch, Is Dead at 95

Phyllis Pressman, the matriarch of the family that founded Barneys New York, the discount men’s wear store turned luxury emporium — and the creator of Chelsea Passage, the store’s home goods bazaar, a pivot point in its evolution from a suit merchant to an elite lifestyle behemoth — died on Tuesday in Palm Beach, Fla. […]

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Turns Out Porsche’s 919 Hybrid Le Mans Winner Looks Great As A Monstrous Snowcat

Turns Out Porsche’s 919 Hybrid Le Mans Winner Looks Great As A Monstrous Snowcat | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Designed to summit Austrian Alps, the Porsche F.A.T. 919 Snowcat looks better than you might have expected 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> The ludicrous Porsche F.A.T. 919 Snowcat was built for a snowy event in […]

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Lancia Zero Electric Sports Car Concept Wins 2024 Drive For Design Contest

Lancia Zero Electric Sports Car Concept Wins 2024 Drive For Design Contest | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The winners of this year’s contest all created Lancias and will receive an assortment of prizes 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> The winners of this year’s Drive for Design contest have been announced and all three high school […]

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Genesis X Speedium Coupe Goes Biking With Giro Concept

Genesis X Speedium Coupe Goes Biking With Giro Concept | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Who needs an SUV when you’ve got the Genesis X Speedium Giro concept to haul your bikes around? 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> The Genesis X Speedium Coupe Giro features a unique bike rack, new wheels, and a crisp white […]

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2025 GMC Terrain To Feature More Assertive Design, Better Tech

2025 GMC Terrain To Feature More Assertive Design, Better Tech | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The 2025 GMC Terrain will benefit from improved exterior design, and a new interior with up-to-date tech April 18, 2024 at 11:10 <!––> <!– –> GMC has teased the third-generation Terrain for the first time. The first image of the […]

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preciosa lighting’s crystal beat 2 installation dazzles with retro gaming aesthetics

Preciosa lightning illuminates milan design week 2024 During Milan Design Week 2024 Preciosa Lighting’s dazzling Crystal Beat 2 installation celebrates the enduring allure of retro aesthetics, inspired by the early gaming universe. Amidst the vibrant atmosphere of Milan’s Zona Tortona district, visitors can immerse themselves in a captivating fusion of light, music, and visual artistry […]

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interview: naoto fukasawa handcarves tactile wooden furniture for milan design week

naoto fukasawa honors japanese woodcarving heritage Bosnian brand Zanat returns to Milan Design Week with a collection of twelve sculptural furniture products designed in collaboration with several leading international designers. United by a profound mutual appreciation for the handmade and traditional wooden craftsmanship, the team tapped esteemed Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa to carve the sculptural […]

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Porsche Reimagines Prefabs With Stunning $1.5M Floating House

Porsche Reimagines Prefabs With Stunning $1.5M Floating House | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Griffner and Studio F. A. Porsche have unveiled a swanky prefab home that combines modern design with upscale features 3 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Griffner and Studio F. A. Porsche have teamed up to create a stylish prefabricated home. It’s known […]

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New Mustang GT3 Livery Is A Racing Hits Playlist

New Mustang GT3 Livery Is A Racing Hits Playlist | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Ford winds back the clock with technicolor “Champion Spirit” racecar livery 3 hours ago <!––> <!– –> For 2024, the Ford Mustang GT3 IMSA factory racers will don a colorful livery inspired by 60 years of racing. The colors and shapes […]

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Porsche Wants To Houndstooth Your Home With Pepita Fabric Chairs

Porsche Wants To Houndstooth Your Home With Pepita Fabric Chairs | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Perfect for Porsche lovers, Vitra’s limited-edition Pepita chairs pair classic design with a vintage upholstery pattern 3 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Porsche partners with Swiss furniture company, Vitra, to upholster three chairs with its legendary Pepita fabric. Since the […]

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This BMW E30-Based 1-Series Isn’t Compact Enough

This BMW E30-Based 1-Series Isn’t Compact Enough | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Render takes inspiration from the 2000s E46/5 3-Series Compact, VW’s first Scirocco, and even a Yugo https://www.carscoops.com/author/chris-chilton-cc/ <!––> by Chris Chilton 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> If you had to pick one car that epitomized the 1980s, you might pick the sharply […]

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Peugeot’s Secret 208 Cabriolet Prototype Revealed

Peugeot’s Secret 208 Cabriolet Prototype Revealed | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The unique prototype of the drop-top Peugeot 208 features a canvas roof and a four-seater cabin April 14, 2024 at 09:19 <!––> <!– –> A secret prototype for a soft-top 208 Cabriolet was recently revealed at the Peugeot museum in France. Unlike its hardtop […]

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Rivian Offers Its New $5,000 Satin Wrap For Free In April

Rivian Offers Its New $5,000 Satin Wrap For Free In April | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The self-healing wrap is worth $5,000, and adds a satin finish to the paint color it covers 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Rivian has introduced a factory body protection wrap called Stealth by XPEL. Made of a self-healing […]

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Roberto Cavalli, Designer Who Celebrated Excess, Dies at 83

Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer who celebrated glamour and excess, sending models down the runway and actresses onto red carpets wearing leopard-print dresses, bejeweled distressed jeans, satin corsets and other unapologetically flashy clothes, has died. He was 83. His company announced the death on Instagram but provided no details. Mr. Cavalli’s signature style — […]

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Nigerian Fashion Moves Beyond the Catwalk

LAGOS, Nigeria — For the past decade, Nigeria’s best-known ambassadors have, arguably, been its musicians: Burna Boy, WizKid, Davido, Tiwa Savage Asake and Tems, who have popularized Afrobeats beyond West Africa. At a moment when music, literature, visual art and food from across the African continent continue to gain global popularity, fashion designers, particularly those […]

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New Pagani Alisea Concept By IED Is Begging To Be Built

New Pagani Alisea Concept By IED Is Begging To Be Built | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Pagani teamed up with 24 budding designers from IED Torino to create a concept celebrating a quarter of a century of the supercar brand https://www.carscoops.com/author/chris-chilton-cc/ <!––> by Chris Chilton 3 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Alisea concept celebrates 25 […]

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2025 Buick Enclave Is Bigger, Prettier, And Techier

2025 Buick Enclave Is Bigger, Prettier, And Techier | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The new 2025 Enclave becomes the first Buick with GM Super Cruise, and gets a best-in-class 30-inch interior display 2 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Buick completes its refreshed lineup with the handsome, next-generation 2025 Enclave. New Enclave gets a 30-inch display […]

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Bang & Olufsen And ADER ERROR Unveil The Blueisim Collection With A Limited Edition of The Beosound A1 Portable Speaker

Bang & Olufsen, in partnership with ADER ERROR, has introduced a distinctive collaboration, unveiling a limited-edition collection that merges fashion and music through a sleek portable speaker and complementary accessories. The collaboration showcases ADER ERROR‘s vision layered over Bang & Olufsen‘s, featuring the signature Z-blue color synonymous with the fashion brand. Knowing B&O’s respect for […]

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When Latin America Became the Seat of Modernity

Lina Bo Bardi, the great Italian-Brazilian architect, liked to say we all invent architecture just by climbing a stair, crossing a room, opening a door or sitting down in a chair. All of “these little gestures,” she said, along with the objects they involve, are richly endowed with meaning and memory. Design is life. Life […]

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Programming functional fabrics

Encouraged by her family, Lavender Tessmer explored various creative pursuits from a young age, particularly textiles, including knitting and crocheting. When she came to MIT, she figured that working with textiles would remain just a hobby; she never expected them to become integral to her career path. However, when she interviewed for a research assistant […]

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New software enables blind and low-vision users to create interactive, accessible charts

A growing number of tools enable users to make online data representations, like charts, that are accessible for people who are blind or have low vision. However, most tools require an existing visual chart that can then be converted into an accessible format. This creates barriers that prevent blind and low-vision users from building their […]

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For MIT students, there is much to learn from crafting a chair

Design spans disciplines and schools at MIT as a versatile mode of inquiry. Whether software, furniture, robots, or consumer products, design classes at MIT guide students through the iterative process of ideation, planning, and prototyping. “Design is 80 percent problem-setting and 20 percent problem-solving,” says MIT Professor Larry Sass SM ’94, PhD ’00, designer and […]

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Optimizing nuclear fuels for next-generation reactors

In 2010, when Ericmoore Jossou was attending college in northern Nigeria, the lights would flicker in and out all day, sometimes lasting only for a couple of hours at a time. The frustrating experience reaffirmed Jossou’s realization that the country’s sporadic energy supply was a problem. It was the beginning of his path toward nuclear engineering. Because […]

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