Courtesy Taylor Morrison Earlier this summer, Taylor Morrison—the No. 5 builder on the 2021 Builder 100—launched its virtual home buying platform, where buyers can purchase a new home from the comfort of their couch. The company’s new digital configuration and reservation system for to-be-built homes guides customers to choose a […]
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We don’t need eco-loons like Thomas Heatherwick designing post-Covid Britain
What will our cities look like, post-pandemic? One side-effect of lockdown politics has been the rush by politicians, “thought leaders” and other wonks to use Covid as a pretext to impose their obsessions on the rest of us – none more so than the environmentalist agenda, with “build back better” […]
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Seth Rogen Is Designing for a Different Kind of Marijuana Smoker
Isamu Noguchi, Arne Jacobsen, Philip Johnson, Philippe Starck—all revered designers, and all took the time to create an ashtray or two in their day. For those in the millennial generation and below, it may be hard to fathom, but before cigarettes were taboo and smoking them indoors was illegal, the […]
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Cleaning, designing and staging the house
We live in a time of change. Nowhere is this more apparent than in real estate. Many people are waving goodbye to the house they have lived in for years. They are moving on. They are moving to a bigger — or smaller — house. And they need help doing […]
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Designing Your Life is an online course to help make you happier
When you buy through our links, we may earn money from our affiliate partners. Learn more. How do we build a life that we genuinely enjoy living? How do we look into the opaque and immense future — with its seemingly limitless options — and decide where we should go […]
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The 5 steps for designing a timeless kitchen
If any room in our homes got a workout last year, it was the kitchen. Cooking and baking were popular for both practical and relaxing reasons. All that time in the heart of the home got some of us wondering whether we should deep clean, organize, upgrade or even remodel […]
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Google Cloud BrandVoice: Time, Place, People: Designing The Digital Workplace
A look at the three basic design values of any digital workplace tool, according to the creators of Google Workspace. The more intuitive and flexible the technology, the better it is for adapting to a new environment. getty With the growing importance of digital workplaces, enterprises and institutions everywhere are […]