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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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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
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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
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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
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Designing From an Archive Is Harder Than Designing From a Mood Board
A twenty-three piece collection drawn from research into the Barbican's original interiors arrives this month. Working from a real archive imposes constraints that a reference image never does.
Aug 17, 2026
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Interior Design Trends 2025: After Beige
Beige's reign over neutral interiors is ending. 2025 brings warm terra cotta, mossy sage greens, and rich chocolate tones that promise rooms with actual personality.
Feb 15, 2024
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Color and Craft Return to Interior Design
Maximalism is officially strategic. 2026 designers pair bold jewel tones with intentional craftsmanship, ditching minimalism for rooms that demand attention and touch.
Jul 10, 2024
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London Design Festival 2026 Is Taking Shape Across the City
The September festival is beginning to reveal its citywide program, where districts, installations and small studios matter as much as headline landmarks.
Jul 28, 2026
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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
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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
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Riyadh’s Next Great Upgrade Is a City Designed for Everyday Life
Parks, walking routes, sports spaces and connected neighborhoods may become Vision 2030’s most meaningful contribution to daily life in the capital.
Jul 28, 2026
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Small Space Design: The Apartment Playbook
Maximize square footage without the minimalist trap. Here's how contemporary designers make small apartments feel larger, livable, and genuinely yours.
Jun 9, 2026
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Layered Lighting Is the Design Upgrade Renters Can Actually Use
Portable lamps, focused task light and warmer evening illumination can transform a rental without rewiring, renovating or chasing expensive fixtures.
Jul 28, 2026
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Slow Design Is Killing the Flat Pack Refresh Cycle
Handmade ceramics, woven blinds and vintage frames are displacing furniture bought to last three years. Designers say the grey rental box interior is finally over.
Aug 4, 2026
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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
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More Than One in Four Adults Over Sixty Five Falls Each Year, Mostly at Home, Mostly in Two Rooms
The design changes that keep people in their own homes are cheap, undramatic and almost always installed after the fall rather than before it. The obstacle is not cost. It is that the fittings look like hospital equipment.
Aug 19, 2026
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One Colour Authority Named a White for 2026, the Other Named Three Blues, and Designers Are Selling Brown
Pantone chose Cloud Dancer. Dulux broke its own format and chose a family of blues. Meanwhile the survey of what interior designers say clients actually request puts chocolate brown and maximalism at the top. Three answers, one year.
Aug 22, 2026
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The rise of dark mode designs
In recent years, dark mode has taken the digital world by storm. From operating systems and apps to websites and social media platforms, the option to switch to a dark background with light text has become increasingly popular. Dark mode not only offers a visually appealing aesthetic but also brings numerous benefits for users, such
May 29, 2023
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Gulf Architecture's Bold Decade: GCC Skylines Transform
Neom, Qiddiya, Red Sea Project. The GCC is building at a scale that rewrites the architectural conversation. These aren't buildings. They're competing visions for the future.
Jan 14, 2026
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Award Winning Buildings Were Using Twice the Energy They Promised, and Almost Nobody Went Back to Check
New homes emit around 2.5 times their design estimates on average. Non-domestic buildings run to 3.8 times. The studies that established this looked at buildings that had been published as exemplars.
Aug 19, 2026
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Warm Minimalism Works When Texture Replaces Clutter
The most livable minimalist rooms are adding grain, woven surfaces, aged metal and imperfect objects without surrendering calm or useful empty space.
Jul 28, 2026
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A Pavilion Built From Police Riot Shields Asks What a Material Remembers
The Pangolin Shield goes up on the Strand next month, assembled from Indian police shields and rain shields over bamboo. Reuse in architecture usually argues about carbon. This one argues about meaning.
Aug 17, 2026
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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
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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
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Housing for Old Age Is the Hardest Brief in Architecture, and Almost Nobody Takes It Seriously
A Stirling Prize winning practice spent its first later living project doing things most retirement housing never bothers with. The design lessons transfer to any budget. The price, unfortunately, does not.
Aug 26, 2026
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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
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Adobe Generative Fill Tool: The Game Changer
Adobe Unveiled A New Feature in Photoshop, The Generative Fill Tool that utilizes cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques, including deep learning algorithms, to analyze and understand the content of an image. By learning from vast amounts of training data, the tool can generate new image content that blends seamlessly with the existing composition. Whether you want
May 27, 2023
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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
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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
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The 2026 Pritzker Went to an Architect Who Builds Small, Strange Things Out of Stone and Fibreglass
Chile's Smiljan Radic Clarke is the fifty fifth laureate of architecture's most significant prize, cited for work that is immediately recognisable and conceptually evasive. In a decade of megaprojects, the jury picked the opposite.
Aug 22, 2026
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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
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A Beijing Studio Put a Restaurant Inside a Live Highway Underpass and Left Half of It to the Public
MARS Studio split the space beneath a working road bridge in Tongzhou with a wall of mirrored glass. One side is a 108 square metre dining room. The other stays an open corridor for anyone walking or cycling through.
Aug 29, 2026
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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
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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
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Big 5 Global Is Where Next Year's Buildings Get Specified
Twenty-seven hundred exhibitors at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 23 November, and three co-located shows that have quietly turned a construction fair into an urban development event.
Aug 14, 2026
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The Greenest Building Is Usually the One Already Standing, and the Arithmetic Is Not Close
Building a new home of the same size can produce up to thirteen times the embodied carbon of refurbishing the old one. That number has started appearing in planning decisions, which is how a technical argument becomes a policy.
Aug 18, 2026
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The 400 Metre Cube Is Paused, Its Deadline Has Moved to 2040, and Its Chief Executive Has Gone
New Murabba has replaced Michael Dyke with a Public Investment Fund executive who is already running another developer. Work on the Mukaab is suspended, the district around it continues, and the completion date has slipped by a decade.
Aug 29, 2026
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Is Tailwind CSS Worth Considering for Your Next Web Development Project?
Tailwind CSS is an exceptional CSS framework that has revolutionized the world of application development. It offers a straightforward and intuitive approach through the use of utility classes. These classes act as building blocks, allowing you to effortlessly shape your design by controlling elements such as layout, color, spacing, typography, shadows, and more. What sets
May 17, 2023
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Thirty Eight States Now Let You Build a Tall Building Out of Wood, and the Fire Argument Went the Other Way
Mass timber spent a decade as an architectural curiosity because codes did not have a category for it. Three new construction types changed that, and the fire testing that was supposed to kill the idea is what made the case.
Aug 18, 2026
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Cement Is Around Seven Per Cent of Global Emissions and the Most Promising Fix Needs No New Factory
LC3 replaces part of the clinker in cement with calcined clay and limestone, cutting emissions by up to forty per cent. Around thirty five plants were producing calcined clay for cement by 2026, with more building.
Aug 20, 2026
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The Kennedy Center Voted to Close Itself for Two Years, Hours After a Judge Said Trump's Name Cannot Go on the Building
A ceiling came down in the Grand Foyer, the chief financial officer resigned, the opera left after fifty years, and the president says renovation will not start unless the appeals court lets him rename the place. Congress had given 250 million dollars.
Sep 17, 2026
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The Very Best Programming Languages Shaping the Job Market and Beyond
Which programming languages have the largest developer communities? It’s not only the widely popular languages like Python and Java that attract millions of users; there are also lesser-known languages with surprisingly substantial user bases. In today’s IT industry, having a strong knowledge of multiple programming languages is often a requirement for many jobs. As aspiring
May 22, 2023
