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Amber Pan transitioned from architecture to interior design, founding Studio ŪMA to create spaces that tell stories through imperfect beauty, weathered materials, and intentional restraint.

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Kelly Anna is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work spans product design, sculpture, and collaborations, advocating for female representation in the creative industry while balancing motherhood.

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Interior designer Jeremiah Brent transformed childhood daydreaming about homes into a multifaceted career spanning design, television, and retail partnerships, emphasizing storytelling and client narratives over signature style.

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Artist Jerszy Seymour transforms a Berlin warehouse into Lucky Garage, a collaborative workshop prioritizing embodied knowledge and autonomous creativity to counter passive consumption and reclaim means of production.

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Salvaged corrugated fiberglass panels from an abandoned hut are transformed into a limited-edition light sculpture, preserving fifty years of environmental patina within custom wooden frames.

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TONI Copenhagen, Denmark's oldest fixture manufacturer since 1918, combines tradition with innovation and offers repair services for vintage pieces to promote sustainability.

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The Ball-Eastaway House, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect Glenn Murcutt's first residential use of corrugated iron, is listed for AUD 2.4-2.6 million after 41 years of private ownership.

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Aoi, a pleated lighting fixture by Ingrid Ng, combines traditional textile pleating techniques with geometric design to create a lamp that transforms through light interaction, balancing mathematical precision with human warmth.

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Bella Han, a first-year MFA student at School of Visual Arts, won the Student category of the Illustration Awards with work depicting a Qing Dynasty concubine's story.

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Towa Mark transforms industrial embossing expertise into Letter Bouquet, a modular stationery system where users layer three-dimensional embossed floral stickers onto washi paper to create sculptural compositions.

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SmashingConf Amsterdam (April 13-16, 2026) brings together designers and UI engineers for a single-track conference featuring live design work, practical workflows, and community-focused learning in an intimate venue.

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GNOME desktop can be customized to resemble Windows 11 by installing themes, extensions, and configuration tools like Dash to Panel and Arcmenu.

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Hwang Bishop's Bloom collection features 16 handcrafted ceramic lighting pieces inspired by desert botanicals, introducing the studio's new Matte Glaze Palette and a sculptural multi-tier chandelier.

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Designer Michael Hilgers created STECKRETAR, a folded steel panel that transforms IKEA Billy bookcases into compact standing desks without tools or drilling.

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Figma integrates OpenAI's Codex to enable seamless design-to-code workflows, allowing users to create and modify designs across both platforms without switching environments.

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The Cooper Hewitt's Art of Noise exhibition chronicles over a century of music technology design, primarily tracing the evolution of portable music devices from gramophones to modern formats.

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The 64th Salone del Mobile.Milano in April 2026 will feature 1,900 exhibitors across 169,000 square meters, reinforcing Milan's position as the global capital of contemporary design culture.

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The Solem Forest House demonstrates restrained architectural design that harmonizes with its forest environment through dark timber cladding and a cross-gabled roof that integrates the second floor within its volume.

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Calibrated rawness is an architectural approach that balances material honesty with rigorous precision, avoiding both luxury excess and industrial roughness while remaining independent of budget constraints.

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Perfect Sense masks explore sensory substitution through design, demonstrating how the brain compensates when one sense is restricted by intensifying other sensory modalities.

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Technology alone cannot create meaningful brand connection; values and purpose differentiate companies in competitive markets where innovation is commonplace.

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Flora Alpina is a temporary alpine garden installation at Centro Svizzero during the Winter Olympics that symbolizes Switzerland as a bounded yet open landscape through the historic 'Hortus Conclusus' garden concept.

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Accessible product adoption fails primarily due to shame and stigma rather than functional deficiencies; successful design requires dignity and emotional appeal alongside technical functionality.

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Frank Buchwald creates the ML15 Helios, a handcrafted sculptural machine light featuring a dimmable LED ring around a spherical bulb, celebrating M.A.D.Gallery's 15th anniversary.

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Nothing's Phone (4a) represents a maturation away from viral-focused design toward subtle, gradually-appreciated details that reward extended use rather than immediate visual impact.

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Striped tile patterns, diamond checkerboards, and illustrated animal prints dominate 2026 interior design trends, replacing previous patterns with more elevated and vintage-inspired aesthetics.

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La Cuadra, Luis Barragán's 1968 equestrian complex, reopens as a public cultural campus under Fernando Romero's direction, launching with exhibitions dedicated to Barragán and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

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The 2026 National Design Awards recognize designers prioritizing climate action, sustainability, and craft as counterforces to environmental crisis and automation.

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Converse and Crate & Kids launched an 80-item furniture collection blending basketball and skate culture aesthetics with quality materials, marking both brands' first furniture collaboration.

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High-shine lacquered finishes from the 1980s are trending this spring, adding glamour, depth, and light-reflecting sophistication to modern interiors.