The Business Roundtable, lead by former Gov. Engler, will endorse the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on Tuesday
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The company had argued that it wasn’t required to pay employees for short breaks
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Bankers porked out on a cynical slop of fees and rip-offs, O’Connor says
Read More Stocks sink around world on first trading day of 2016
Stocks tumbled Monday in global sell-off triggered by new fears of slowdown in China, rising tensions in Middle East
Read More Detroit gets more time to decide on American Motors HQ
Detroit to evaluate if it wants American Motors Corp. property after sole tax auction bidder deal voided
Read More Mark Zuckerberg Wants To Build His Own AI Butler, Inspired By Iron Man
What was your New Year’s resolution again?
In superhero movies and TV shows, genius billionaire tech inventors get to have all the cool toys—they just have to make them on their own. Think Batman‘s Bruce Wayne and Iron Man‘s Tony Stark on the big screen and Supergirl‘s Maxwell Lord on the small. But in 2016 that film fiction trope is crossing over into reality with Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement on his Facebook page that his New Year’s resolution is to build Tony Stark’s AI personal assistant J.A.R.V.I.S. from the Iron Man films.
The Most Important Design Jobs Of The Future
Designers at Google, Microsoft, Autodesk, Ideo, Artefact, Teague, Lunar, Huge, New Deal, and fuseproject predict 18 new design jobs.
Yesterday’s graphic designers are today’s UX designers. Will tomorrow’s UX designers will be avatar programmers, fusionists, and artificial organ designers? Yes, according to the illustrious roster of design leaders we spoke with here.
Study: Shared Office Coffee Machines Are As Gross As You’d Think
Assuming you don’t love rapid bacterial colonization.
If you work in an office and use the communal coffee maker, chances are you’ve had the following thought at some point or other: Who cleans that thing? Maybe you’ve even joked about it with colleagues, each person laughing with varying degrees of intensity that reflect their own personal level of germaphobia. The uncomfortable answer is: Hopefully someone!
3-D Printing Brings Czech Cubism To Life In Gorgeous Geometric Dinnerware Set
Svetlana Koženová’s collection for Czech home goods retailer Lauriger ushers Czech Cubism into the 21st century.
In the years between 1910 and 1925, Czech Cubism flourished in Prague. Czech architects, sculptors and furniture designers took the sharp points and folded planes of Cubist paintings by the likes of Picasso and Georges Braque and translated them into buildings and objects. Walk around Prague today and you can still see relics of the movement in the angular, origami-like facades of buildings Hodek Apartment House and the Kovarovic Villa.
Revamped McDonald’s In Hong Kong Channels Shake Shack
Australian-based studio Landini Associates ditched the bright, colorful fast food decor for a more pared-down design.
McDonald’s franchises aren’t exactly known for their upscale interiors, but every once in a while a McD’s gets a showy redesign that’s a cut above the rest. There’s the swank, golden McDonald’s in Rotterdam designed by Mei Architects, for example, and the Art Deco restaurant in Victoria, Australia. A fresh redesign of a branch in Hong Kong takes a decidedly less flashy approach: the designers are calling the open, minimalist interior an “experiment in non-design.”
