Design

Forget shapewear. Spanx just created sculpting jeans

Spanx is adjusting to a post-shapewear world with normal clothes that are embedded with compression technology.

Walmart designed its new Bentonville headquarters to be a bikeable extension of the city

Covering 350-acres and more than a dozen buildings in Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart's new campus reinvents the corporate headquarters.

‘We’ve got a lot of land with no one around, and so if it blows up, it’s cool.’ How Musk’s Starbase’s rocket testing facility in Texas impacts the land and local communities

The area around Starbase is a unique and delicate ecosystem that includes estuaries and coastal grasslands, mud flats, and more.

How David Lynch exposed America’s bizarre underbelly

Lynch’s images of corruption, violence, and toxic masculinity ring all too familiar in America today.

Milan Fashion Week: Simon Cracker showcases upcycled collection as luxury sector slumps

The Simon Cracker runway critique hits the fashion sector when it's down, and analysts say, in need of reform.

What comes after Design thinking

The popular methodology isn't equipped to solve the complexities of the current world.

You’d never know this stylish coat has a heater hidden inside

Ministry of Supply has a new heated jacket, and the tech is extra stealthy.

5 of Nokia’s coolest gadgets that you’ve probably never seen

Nokia's new Design Archive catalogs over two decades of Nokia design history, ranging from sketches and mock-ups to never-before-seen prototypes.

How a course for law students uses art museums to teach them how to present arguments

The course examines the intellectual, emotional, and professional overlap between the craft of presenting art and the craft of presenting arguments.

‘I have lists on lists’: Kelly Wearstler shares her secrets to cultivating creativity

The famous interior designer on how she uses organization, curiosity, and focus to build her design empire.

‘The Stringer’ investigates who really took one of the most iconic photos ever

The film about the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture, 'The Stringer,' is scheduled to debut next week at the Sundance Film Festival.

OK Go’s new music video is 64 phones of pure joy

OK Go has reintroduced itself as a creative force with a new video that's a whimsical riff on modern digital life.

What Luigi Mangione and Henry James teach us about the mystery of political violence

These Gilded Age novels, each of which explores political violence, struggle with the problem of getting inside the mind of a revolutionary.

Starbucks proves it was never really a ‘third place’

Starbucks surprised many with its new code of conduct for customers. Turns out it was a luxury brand all along.

Graza, Ayoh, and now Hidden Valley Ranch: inside the squeeze bottle’s grocery aisle take over

Like the packaging for olive oil brand Graza, this bottle offers more "precision and control" to expand the way consumers use the dressing.

Trump’s inauguration headshot is the first true portrait of our post-conventions era

Trump's inauguration headshot is inspired by his mugshot. But that's not the only way it bucks presidential norms.

Designers are exploring the crushing, lasting impact of domicide

A new museum installation grappling with the systematic destruction of homes couldn't come at a more crucial moment.

The Grand Central Hall stunt for ‘Severance’ was genius. Its LinkedIn profile might be even better

Over on LinkedIn, Lumon Industries is leveling a timely parody against the most exhausting of corporate posters.

The L.A. fires should be studied. Here’s why

A balanced and thorough investigation of the Los Angeles fires could help communities across the U.S. reframe their thinking about planning for emergencies.

Modular design makes tech personal (and repairable)

Modular design is reaching new audiences by letting users build systems that are suited to their unique needs and can evolve.