Nike has launched an app setting that provides “hyper-accurate” sizing recommendations for each of its shoes by scanning your feet with a smartphone camera. Called Nike Fit, the tool – available as both in-store and at-home options – aims to address the problem of customers ordering and wearing the wrong-fit shoe. “Three out of every five people
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Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic has paid tribute to Stanley Kubrick, as an exhibition exploring the life and work of the legendary film director opens at the museum today. Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition showcases over 500 objects, including production documents, props, set designs and storyboards from the American director’s “genre-defining” films, such as The Shining, Barry Lyndon, 2001:
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The first 3D zebra crossing in the UK has been painted on a road in north-west London in an effort to improve road safety in the area. The striped crossing appears to be floating above the road, creating an optical illusion that is visible to oncoming drivers from both directions. The aim is for the crossing
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Inflatable architecture is back in fashion says Sharon Francis, author of new book Bubbletecture. She picks out five key examples for Dezeen, including an office with an inflatable facade and a pavilion made out of bubbles. Set to be published by Phaidon next month, Bubbletecture features more than 200 examples of inflatable architecture and design from the
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Volvo has installed an environmentally-friendly seawall along the coast of Sydney’s harbour that aims to improve biodiversity and water quality in the area. The Volvo Living Seawall consists of 50 hexagonal tiles with small corners and recesses that are designed to imitate the root structure of native mangrove trees – a popular habitat for marine
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To start a new quarterly guide to the best architecture and design exhibitions around the world, we’ve picked out the top 10 to visit between now and March, including a retrospective of fashion legend Christian Dior and a show of future transport design. The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 E 91st Street,
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A smart ring developed by New York-based designer Hussain Almossawi allows people with sickle cell disease to monitor and detect low oxygen levels in their blood. Read more
Toy company MGA Entertainment has preemptively sued Louis Vuitton in an attempt to prevent the fashion house from taking actions that might impact sales of its slime-filled children’s purse Pooey Puitton. Read more
A British Army recruitment campaign targets “snowflakes, selfie addicts, class clowns, phone zombies, and me, me, millennials” in boring jobs, with a design that draws on World War I recruitment posters. Read more
Representatives of rock band Nirvana are suing Marc Jacobs for using its copyrighted smiley face logo in the fashion designer’s latest collection and campaign. Read more
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