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torrey: private spaces: an intimate retrospective of andrew torrey’s american design

The new monograph 'Torrey: Private Spaces: Great American Design' offers insight into architect and designer Andrew Torrey's work, showcasing his polished, modern American interiors across various cities.
Authored by Gay Gassmann and featuring photography by Manolo Yllera, Douglas Friedman, and Tim Lenz, the book explores Torrey's design philosophy through twenty-three projects balancing architectural clarity and expressive materiality.
Torrey's design language combines opulence and restraint, focusing on clean architectural volumes, rich colors, and custom furnishings to create composed yet personal environments.
The monograph, with design by Atelier Dyakova, mirrors Torrey's style with a bold red treatment and GT America typeface, presenting a cohesive visual statement that showcases his blend of modern design with rich materials and vintage details.

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20 Free Photoshop Old Paper Brushes For Historical Design Projects

Photoshop old paper brushes offer a way to recreate authentic vintage magic digitally, saving time and delivering organic textures.
Various types of old paper brushes are available for creating weathered treasure maps, retro book covers, digital scrapbooks, and more.
These brushes include torn edge brushes, antique paper texture brushes, paper tear effect brushes, and water stain brushes.
The collection also features burnt paper effect brushes, notepaper texture brushes, and other options for historical design projects.

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What AI Hardware Could Actually Look Like: A Vision for the Smart Band Interface

AI is evolving to be integrated into hardware devices, moving beyond screens and desks to become embodied and always accessible.
The vision presented is a smart band interface with a tap-to-activate fingerprint scanner, aiming for deliberate activation, biometric trust, and voice-driven intelligence without a screen.
This smart band design emphasizes reducing false activations, enhancing privacy by avoiding passive listening, and offering a familiar interaction experience akin to fitness bands or smartwatches.
Smart bands are proposed as a more normalized, ergonomic, private, and gesture-first form factor for AI integration compared to chest pins or smart glasses, offering seamless blending into daily life.

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black void frames cloud installation as narrative tool in multimedia atmospheric performance

Black Void presents Cloud’s Memoir, a multimedia stage installation integrating poetic narrative with environmental data systems.
The project reflects on Earth's atmosphere influenced by historical and contemporary events, showcased at the Climate Ring in Yicang Art Museum and Fudan Art Museum's Luminosity Reborn exhibition.
Cloud’s Atmospheric Narratives explore cloud formations historically used for divination, emergence of carbon-based gases, and movement of atmospheric pollutants through global currents.
The installation features live cloud-making technologies, environmental controls, and audiovisual components to emphasize the atmosphere as a shared archive shaped by material histories and systemic conditions.

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slender steel arcs blossom into kong xiangwei studio’s camellia-like theater in china

Camellia Theater in China, designed by Kong Xiangwei Studio, rises above a tea garden at 2,300 meters above sea level on Wuliang Mountain.
Inspired by a camellia flower, the structure features seven slender steel arcs resembling petals or streamers, and was formed on-site through collaboration with local workers.
The theater serves as a venue for cultural performances, blending seamlessly with its natural surroundings, avoiding disturbance to the tea trees while providing a stage and audience seating.
The design reflects local legend, with the structure's form occasionally appearing as a crown, integrating folklore into the architectural gesture.

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Seeing Through Their Eyes : A 3-Step Guide to Prioritizing Features

Focusing on casual customers who visit a local café occasionally is crucial to increase their loyalty through an app.
The key is to simplify the user experience to avoid making it feel like a chore or something to remember.
Adopting a Design Thinking approach can help in prioritizing features by considering simplicity and reducing friction.
Empathizing with users and aligning ideas with the product's core principle leads to clearer feature prioritization.

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modular wooden table reforms into exhibition platform within ceramic workshop by AACM

The Mosca Bianca project by AACM in Padua, Italy integrates a ceramic workshop and exhibition space, incorporating terracotta crafting into the interior design concept.
A continuous, sculptural element shaped like clay on a potter's wheel guides the spatial experience, drawing attention to a central zenithal light source and a monolithic work and display table.
The versatile table serves as both an exhibition platform and a worktable during ceramic workshops, featuring concealed chairs, storage compartments, and a cantilevered design.
The spatial design by AACM is rooted in the material lifecycle of terracotta, with walls and ceilings finished in rammed-earth plaster and storage elements discreetly integrated into the space.

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iOS 26 Information Density

Some users are noticing that everything in iOS 26 is slightly larger, leading to reduced information density on the screen.
A comparison of information density across different iOS versions reveals that iOS 26 offers less screen space for content.
Apple has increased row height and padding in iOS 26 to provide more 'breathing room,' but this change reduces the amount of information displayed and may require more scrolling.
Critics argue that the increased white space in iOS 26 is unnecessary and can impact the clarity of layouts, pushing content closer to screen edges.

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AI Can Predict Behavior, But Can It Design for Feelings?

AI can accurately predict behavior and make impressive optimizations in design projects.
Designing for emotions is essential, as highlighted in a healthcare project where AI efficiency lacked empathy.
Human understanding and empathy are crucial in design to address users' emotional needs that AI may overlook.
The future of design lies in a partnership between humans and AI, combining predictive abilities with human touch for optimal results.

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Beautiflul Finalist Images from the 2025 BigPicture Natural World People’s Choice Award

BigPicture has unveiled 20 stunning finalists for the 2025 Natural World People’s Choice Award, now open for public voting until July 31.
The images highlight nature's beauty and fragility through wildlife encounters, landscapes, and environmental themes.
The winning finalist will receive a $300 prize, feature on BigPicture's site, and exhibit space at the California Academy of Sciences.
By voting, participants show support for conservation-focused photography and acknowledge the talented artists behind these impactful images.

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participatory tree of scanned hands by JR grows in montpellier’s former church

French artist JR's participatory tree installation titled Adventice, composed of 10,000 scanned hands from around the world, grows in Montpellier's Carr Sainte-Anne after seven years of restoration.
The tree of hands symbolizes rootedness, migration, and collective identity, with each hand representing an individual story and creating a connected structure that evolves with new visitors adding their scanned hands.
Adventice connects the historical arrival of foreign seeds through the medieval textile trade in Montpellier to the concept of cultural exchange and migration, using ecological phenomena as a metaphor for external influences shaping the city's identity.
Alongside the central installation, Adventice includes five new works by JR in wood and paper, expanding on the themes of human connection and cultural exchange presented in the exhibition.

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Spectacular Award-Winning Portraits from the 2025 AAP Magazine Awards

The 2025 AAP Magazine Awards showcased award-winning portraits that explore the human experience and emotional depth.
The publication's 48th issue focused on portraiture, highlighting images capturing profound connections and raw emotions.
Winning entries ranged from candid street scenes to meticulously composed studio portraits, challenging traditional notions of portraiture.
The awarded photographs hail from around the world, each telling a unique story and celebrating shared humanity.

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The Floppy Disk Icon as “Save:” Still Appropriate Today?

The floppy disk icon, commonly used to depict 'save' in software, continues to be recognized by users despite the outdated technology it represents.
Many users today may not have experience with floppy disks, but the icon remains prevalent in some software, especially enterprise systems.
While most people still understand the meaning behind the floppy disk icon, modern saving methods like cloud-syncing and auto-saving have evolved beyond local storage, making the icon potentially less relevant in certain contexts.
Initially, the floppy disk icon served as a clear metaphor in early graphical user interfaces by directly mirroring physical objects for better user comprehension.

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“Powered By AI” Is Not a Value Proposition

Presenting AI as the main value of a product can hinder achieving product-market fit and user-centered design.
A clear value proposition, established at the beginning of a project, guides decision-making and ensures that the product delivers the intended value to users.
Aligning a team around a single value proposition helps prioritize essential features aligned with user goals and speeds up delivering a complete solution to the user's problem.
Successful products like Dropbox, Instagram, and Uber started by focusing on one core functionality and excelled in that area before expanding.

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What happens when OOP meets Real World™

Experienced developers face a tension in object-oriented design between encapsulation and orchestration-heavy scenarios like object duplication or versioning.
Options to handle this tension include using an Orchestrator or Service Object pattern, making the Aggregate Root responsible, or delegating duplication to nested objects.
The discussion revolves around where to place orchestration logic that traverses multiple objects without compromising the core ideas of encapsulation and behavior-close-to-data.
Acknowledging that contextual behaviors may not always belong in domain objects, the Application Layer logic plays a crucial role in managing temporal, cross-object actions, while still respecting the principles of object-oriented design.

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