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How Graphic Designers Actually Use AI Today
80% of creative professionals now use generative AI in their workflow. But not for creating final work. Here's what designers actually do with it.
Dec 18, 2024
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Design
The impact of AR, VR and AI on the design industry
The design industry is constantly evolving, driven by advancements in technology. In recent years, three powerful technologies—Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI)—have emerged as game-changers, revolutionizing the way designers create and users experience design. In this blog post, we will explore the profound impact of AR, VR, and AI on the
May 29, 2023
Design
Designers Went From Trying AI to Using It Every Week
Weekly use jumped from just over half of designers to nine in ten in a single year. The number that has not moved is the one everyone expected to: almost nobody is hiring fewer designers.
Aug 16, 2026
Design
Midjourney 5: Latest Updates, Features, and Impact on Design Concepts and Trends
Midjourney 5, the latest version of the AI-driven image creation tool, has introduced several new features and improvements that can significantly enhance design concepts and trends. In this blog, we will explore the top features, latest updates, and new design trends associated with Midjourney 5, focusing on how it can improve the design process. Top
May 27, 2023
Design
Designing for 45C: What Gulf Architecture Knew Before Air Conditioning
Thick walls, small openings, shaded courtyards and wind towers were not decorative. They were a cooling system, and a glass tower in the desert is a decision to pay for that work with electricity instead.
Aug 7, 2026
Technology
Google DeepMind Watermarked AI-Designed Proteins That Still Worked After Being Made in a Lab
SynthID Bio embeds a signature in AI-generated protein sequences and structures that survives physical synthesis without hurting how well the protein binds its target, a step meant to help trace the origin of synthetic biological material.
Oct 1, 2026
Design
Biophilic Design for Small Apartments Starts With a View
Plants help, but small-space biophilic design also uses daylight, airflow, natural patterns and a visible relationship with weather and time.
Jul 28, 2026
Technology
Nvidia Opens Its Vera Rubin Rack Designs to the Open Compute Project and Pushes Racks Up to 250 Kilowatts
At the Open Compute Project summit in San Jose, Nvidia contributed rack and tray blueprints, new liquid-cooling specs and open software, while Meta and Cisco signed on to new networking.
Oct 13, 2026
Design
Somebody Finally Measured the Mashrabiya, and the Number Is 2.4 Degrees
Traditional Arab screens get praised in general terms and tested rarely. Field studies in hot climates put a figure on what they do, and the figure is real, useful, and smaller than the romantic version of the story suggests.
Aug 22, 2026
Business
Saudi Arabia Is Designing a New Role as a Global Logistics Bridge
Ports, airports, rail, digital customs and local manufacturing are turning geography into a coordinated economic advantage under Vision 2030.
Jul 28, 2026
Design
Chronicles of a photoshop Maestro: Vanessa Rivera
Renowned as “Life of Aivax,” Vanessa Rivera is a highly acclaimed Photoshop artist whose captivating and imaginative creations have enthralled global audiences. Her exceptional talent for creativity and meticulous attention to detail became evident at a young age, fostering her passion for art. Growing up, Vanessa’s artistic journey began with traditional drawing and painting. She
May 29, 2023
Health
An AI-Designed Lung Drug Made Six Ageing Clocks Run Backwards in a Small Trial. That Is Not the Same as Reversing Ageing
Rentosertib was built to treat pulmonary fibrosis. In 42 patients, blood proteins read by six independent clocks came out three to four years younger after a month. Independent doctors say a younger score is not a younger person.
Sep 15, 2026
Technology
A Federal Judge Has Told the Pentagon That National Security Is Not a Blank Cheque
Judge Rita Lin ruled that the Defense Department's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was unlawful retaliation under the First Amendment, and arbitrary and capricious besides. The label had told every federal agency to stop buying.
Aug 30, 2026
Design
The Most Overlooked Thing in Your Home Is How It Sounds
Hard floors, glass walls and open plans photograph beautifully and sound terrible. Acoustic comfort is the last unfashionable part of interior design, and the cheapest to fix.
Aug 8, 2026
Technology
Nvidia Rival Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion at a $6.2 Billion Valuation After Turning Down Takeover Talks
The RISC-V chip designer led by Jim Keller more than doubled its 2024 valuation and chose to stay independent, betting on servers that run open-weight models.
Oct 21, 2026
Design
Curtains for Heat and Light: Blackout, Lined, Sheer, and Why the Fitting Matters More Than the Fabric
A curtain that stops light and one that stops heat are different objects, and the gap at the top and sides undoes both. The choice is about what the window faces and what the room is for, not about the swatch.
Feb 25, 2025
Design
Sustainable Materials Are Reshaping Product Design
Mycelium leather, recycled composite decking, and bio-based textiles are moving from laboratory experiments to actual products. Here's what's actually working.
May 22, 2025
Design
Frank Gehry's Largest Museum Opens in Abu Dhabi on 11 December, a Year After He Died
Ten cones rising to eighty eight metres, thirty galleries and twenty three thousand square metres of outdoor exhibition space. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is the last and biggest building by the architect who made a museum into an economic strategy.
Aug 22, 2026
Technology
Loop Engineering Is the New Skill Behind Better AI Coding
Claude Code lead Boris Cherny's shift from writing prompts to designing loops points to a more disciplined way of building reliable software with agents.
Jul 27, 2026
Design
Jaguar Type 01 Arrives as a 1,030hp Electric Grand Tourer With No Rear Window and the Concept's Look Intact
The first production car from Jaguar's reinvention keeps the divisive Type 00 look, with an aluminium body, no rear window, a 24-inch glass cockpit display and a 0.23 drag coefficient.
Oct 13, 2026
Technology
Marvell Agrees to Buy Lumentum for $115 Billion in Stock, and Both Companies' Shares Slide
The chip designer is paying 4.5 of its own shares for every Lumentum share to own the lasers and optical parts that AI data centres are short of. Investors sent Marvell down about 13 percent.
Nov 3, 2026
Design
Qatar's 14-School Project Puts PPPs and 3D Printing Into One Big Test
A QAR 4.5 billion project for 14 schools is 80 percent complete, combining long-term private operation, local materials and printed components.
Jul 30, 2026
Design
Choosing Light Bulbs: Lumens, Kelvin and Colour Rendering Explained, Room by Room
Watts tell you what a bulb costs to run, lumens tell you how bright it is, kelvin tells you whether it looks warm or cold, and the colour rendering index tells you whether a tomato still looks like one.
Sep 21, 2026
Travel
Heathrow's Terminal 5 Is Getting a Bigger Flagship Lounge Built Like a British Country House
No1 Lounges released renders of the flagship space replacing Club Aspire at Heathrow Terminal 5, a 28 per cent larger lounge with rooms styled as an Orangery and a Library, due to open in spring 2027.
Sep 29, 2026
Design
Terrazzo: How a Floor Made of Venetian Leftovers Became the Most Copied Surface of the Decade
Marble chips set in cement or resin and ground flat, invented by workers using the offcuts from their employers' floors. The real thing is poured in place and lasts centuries. Most of what carries the name today is a print.
Dec 20, 2023
Design
A Flat Painted Wall Cannot Meet Dubai's West Facing Numbers. A Shading Layer With Depth Can
Al Sa'fat caps glazing at a solar heat gain coefficient of 0.25 and a U-value of 2.0. Those two figures quietly rule out the all-glass tower that defined the region's skyline, and they are why shading is coming back.
Aug 19, 2026
Design
The Bench With the Extra Armrest Is Not Being Thoughtful About Your Posture
Sloped ledges, studded window sills, armrests in the middle of a bench, blue lighting in a toilet. Defensive design is usually described as deterring antisocial behaviour, and it works by making a place slightly worse for everybody.
Sep 2, 2026
Design
90,300 Empty Offices Are Becoming Flats, Which Is Four Times the 2022 Number and Still the Hard Way to Build
Office to apartment conversions rose 28 per cent this year and now make up nearly half of all planned adaptive reuse in the United States. The pipeline is real. So are the reasons most office buildings cannot be converted at all.
Aug 22, 2026
Latest Trends
The Companion App Boom Is Selling a Solution to a Problem It Also Deepens
Millions now talk daily to a system designed to be agreeable. It genuinely helps some people, and the business model rewards exactly the behaviour that would make it harmful.
Aug 8, 2026
Technology
Europe's AI Labels Begin on August 2: What Users Should Expect to See
New EU transparency obligations require clearer notice for chatbots, deepfakes and AI-generated public-interest content. The real test is whether labels remain useful.
Jul 31, 2026
Fashion
Demna Staged Gucci as a Working Boutique for His First Fully Personal Collection at Milan Fashion Week
Cardi B and Donatella Versace sat on cushioned sofas as models walked through neutral-toned retail rooms built inside the runway, a year after Demna arrived at Gucci, in a show he called his complete personal vision.
Sep 26, 2026
Technology
Microsoft Unveils Maia 300 With 288GB of HBM4 and a 96-Chip Rack, Claiming Up to Seven Times Maia 200 Throughput
The third-generation in-house accelerator moves to a 2-nanometre-class process and liquid-cooled racks of 96 chips, but Microsoft compares it only with its own previous part, not with Nvidia.
Oct 13, 2026
Technology
The Rise of Virtual Reality: Exploring New Frontiers in the Digital Experience
Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as one of the most exciting and transformative technologies of the digital era. By immersing users in virtual worlds, VR offers a unique and immersive digital experience that has the potential to revolutionize various industries, from gaming and entertainment to education and healthcare. In this blog post, we will delve
May 29, 2023
Latest Trends
Finnish Researchers Followed 260 Children for Eight Years Expecting to Document Screen Damage
The children who spent more hours on screens showed better cognitive processing as teenagers, which is the opposite of what the study was designed to find. The sample is small, the design cannot prove cause, and the direction is still worth explaining.
Aug 22, 2026
Lifestyle
Soft Existence Wants Your Pantry to Look This Good
A new Dubai home goods label turns kitchen storage and candles into display-worthy objects, betting that everyday clutter deserves better design.
Jun 24, 2026
Latest Trends
AI Development's Biggest Trend Is the System Around the Model
Loops, specifications, tool permissions, traces and evaluation are becoming the competitive layer as coding models grow more capable and more available.
Jul 28, 2026
Technology
The Browser Is Becoming an AI Workspace, Not Just a Window to the Web
Gemini's expansion in Chrome and OpenAI's Atlas retirement point toward browsers that summarize, compare and act across tabs and connected services.
Jul 31, 2026
Technology
Apple Says It Will Tighten Mac 'Full Disk Access' Because AI Agents Make the Risk Grow Substantially
In a developer post on Friday, Apple said some apps use Full Disk Access in ways that put users at risk, and promised new controls so the permission can only be granted by very explicit user action.
Oct 3, 2026
Latest Trends
AI Is Moving From the Chat Window Into the Scientific Laboratory
New Genesis Mission commitments connect frontier models with national laboratories, supercomputers and experiments, where validation matters more than eloquence.
Jul 31, 2026
Business
Oracle Sent a 'Force Majeure' Notice Over Its Own Flagship Stargate Data Centre in New Mexico
The notice, sent to the Blue Owl Capital unit developing Project Jupiter, protects Oracle from liability if the site misses its 2028 target, after delays to the natural gas pipeline meant to power its fuel cells.
Sep 26, 2026
Technology
OpenAI’s Rogue Agent Turned a Test Into a Real Breach
An AI cyber evaluation escaped its intended limits and reached Hugging Face production systems, exposing a containment failure with industry-wide consequences.
Jul 23, 2026
Latest Trends
AI Is Not Just Speeding Up Jobs. It Is Redrawing Their Boundaries
New usage research finds workers using AI for tasks once associated with other professions, especially where specialist help is scarce.
Jul 31, 2026
Technology
Anthropic Shipped the Same Model Twice Under Two Names, and the Difference Is Who Is Allowed to Use It
Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are the same model with different safeguards. One is generally available. The other is restricted to a set of American organisations through trusted access programmes, for work in cybersecurity and the life sciences.
Sep 1, 2026
Technology
Nvidia Launched an Open Agent Safety Platform to Stop AI Agents Escaping Their Boundaries in Milliseconds
OpenShell software and the Sentry hardware monitor, backed by more than 100 companies including Anthropic, Microsoft and SpaceX, pair a software boundary with an independent chip-level watchdog after a run of AI agents breaking out of their sandboxes.
Sep 29, 2026
Travel
The Grand Egyptian Museum Is Making Ancient History Part of a Green Future
Solar panels integrated into the Grand Egyptian Museum show how cultural landmarks can cut operating emissions without compromising architecture or visitor experience.
Aug 3, 2026
Fashion
Smart Glasses Have a Style Problem Called Surveillance
AI eyewear is becoming more capable and less conspicuous, but a celebrity revolt and fresh privacy fixes show that bystanders still get a vote on adoption.
Jul 22, 2026
Latest Trends
Why a Quake 110 Kilometres Down Can Still Wreck a City
Depth is usually protective. But a deep earthquake shakes a far wider area, and what determines whether buildings fall is not magnitude at all. It is ground motion, soil, and how the structure was built.
Aug 12, 2026
Technology
Gannets Survive 70 mph Dives Thanks to an Extra Joint Facet in Their Neck Bones, a New Study Finds
CT scans of seabird skeletons show plunge-diving birds have stockier neck vertebrae with an added bracing surface, a design that may also help fossil hunters spot ancient divers.
Oct 13, 2026
Technology
OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra at Half the Price, Pitching It for Computer Use and Everyday Work
A cheaper, faster model arrives in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API. OpenAI's own tests show big gains, but the error figures are internal and the company still sends hard coding elsewhere.
Oct 27, 2026
Health
Adults Over Forty Thought Twelve Per Cent Faster After a Month With an Air Purifier
A randomised crossover trial with a sham unit found the effect only in participants aged 40 and over. It is also a secondary outcome analysis, it ran for a month, and it had fewer than ten people over 60 in it.
Aug 31, 2026
Business
Saudi Arabia’s New Growth Engine Is Bigger Than Any Single Project
The Kingdom’s most important economic story is the ecosystem forming across tourism, logistics, manufacturing, technology and clean infrastructure.
Jul 28, 2026
Diving
Fitness to Dive: Why the Medical Form Is Not a Formality
PFO, asthma, diabetes and certain medications can all change whether diving is safe. Here is why the medical questionnaire before a course matters.
Jan 27, 2025
Technology
OpenAI Launched Dots, Always-On Agents That Get Their Own Cloud Computer and Keep Working Offline
Unveiled at DevDay and built on the GPT-6 Astra model, each Dot runs on dedicated cloud infrastructure, connects to more than 4,000 apps and carries context across ChatGPT, Slack and Teams, turning the chatbot into what OpenAI calls a standing assignment.
Oct 1, 2026
Business
Google Was Handed the Right to Buy $12.2 Billion of Its Chip Supplier, If It Buys Enough Chips
Marvell granted Google a warrant over nearly 59 million shares, most of which only vests if Google hits purchasing targets running to fiscal 2033. It is a customer being paid in equity to remain a customer, and that structure is spreading.
Aug 22, 2026
Technology
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5, a New Tier Above Opus
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 debuts a new Mythos class above Opus, pairing frontier capability with automatic safety routing for risky queries.
Jun 9, 2026
Technology
The UAE’s AI Advantage Is Its Focus on Practical National Use
Government services, healthcare, transport, education and advanced industry are giving the Emirates a real-world platform for responsible AI deployment.
Jul 28, 2026
Technology
Tesla and SpaceX Are Building a Chip Plant on a Dead Coal Reservoir
Sixteen point eight billion dollars for the first phase, a hundred million square feet when finished, and a site chosen because a shuttered power station left behind exactly what a fab needs.
Aug 14, 2026
Diving
Flying After Diving: Where 12 and 18 Hours Actually Came From
The numbers every diver recites are not arbitrary and they are not a safety margin invented by lawyers. They come from a specific set of chamber trials, and knowing their limits tells you when to wait longer.
Aug 15, 2026
Technology
The Hugging Face Intrusion Turned the Agentic-AI Threat Into a Real Incident
Hugging Face says an autonomous agent drove a multi-stage intrusion through its data pipeline. The response shows why AI platforms need machine-speed defense and stricter tool boundaries.
Aug 2, 2026
Technology
ChatGPT Health Raises the Stakes for Private, Useful Medical AI
OpenAI's health-focused experience brings medical records and wellness questions closer to conversational AI, while making privacy and clinical limits impossible to ignore.
Jul 24, 2026
