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.
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!
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.
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.”
The demi is designed to create a stronger community for locally owned business. Could it take off across Canada?
Martin Zibeau, a middle-aged, bearded guy more likely to be found in a sweatshirt than a suit jacket, doesn’t look like the mastermind behind a new financial instrument. But in the Gaspesie region of northern Quebec, the “demi”—a new local currency that Zibeau dreamed up with a few friends over drinks at a Carleton-sur-Mer brewery—is taking off.
But the company met its forecast of 50,000 vehicles delivered in 2015.
Tesla issued a statement on Sunday confirming that it had met its goal of delivering 50,000 vehicles in 2015. By year end on December 31, the electric car maker had delivered 50,580 Model S sedans and Model X sport utility vehicles. Those numbers included 17,400 vehicles shipped during the last quarter. While those numbers may make Tesla fans happy, auto industry analysts note that they come in at the low end of Tesla’s revised November guidance of 50,000 to 52,000 vehicles shipped in 2015, which was already down from their February guidance of 55,000 delivered vehicles in calendar year 2015.
Unlike leaders in the early computer revolution, today’s digital tech firms employ far fewer workers—and that’s worrisome for the future.
The rise of sites like Facebook and Airbnb as enabled a few people to get very rich. That Mark Zuckerberg has $45 billion to give away shows the sort of numbers we’re talking about. But how much are these gains percolating down to the rest of the economy?
The four new man-made elements are the first to be added since 2011.
Chemistry buffs and scientists rejoice: Four new elements have been added to the periodic table, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has announced, completing the seventh row of the iconic chemistry chart. The new elements were discovered by teams of researchers in Japan, America, and Russia. All four elements are man-made radioactive superheavy elements with slightly longer lifetimes than previously discovered superheavy elements, leading to hope of eventually discovering “a so-called ‘island of stability’ where elements with longer half-lives will be found,” according to RIKEN researchers, one of the teams who are credited with discovering one of the new elements.
Journalism experts weigh in on what they’re grappling with this year, from mobile experiences to rebuilding trust.
Mobile design, virtual reality, building trust with diverse communities, shifting revenue models, and finding new formats for storytelling as technology shapes content: These are among the biggest issues journalists will be grappling with in 2016. Here’s how some of the leading thinkers in the field are planning to tackle each of these challenges:
Automaker GM will invest $500 million in ride-sharing startup Lyft, which is now valued at $5.5 billion.
Lyft, the ride-hailing startup, announced today that it is partnering with General Motors to create a network of on-demand self-driving cars. The announcement comes as Lyft closes a $1 billion funding round, half of which came from GM. Lyft is now valued at $5.5 billion.
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