Sayantani Mitra gets “a thrill” from finding good second-hand stuff online Sayantani Mitra say she now scrolls through listings on Facebook Marketplace “for hours”. A 28-year-old from Oxford, prior to the pandemic she “would buy everything from charity shops, whether that’s furniture, clothes, or bags and accessories”. But with lockdowns […]
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Justina Blakeney’s nature-inspired home decor shop grew from a small design blog
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Designer Eneia White Grew Up Rearranging Furniture in Her Mind
From House Beautiful Consider her the Beth Harmon of interior design: “As I fell asleep in my childhood bedroom, I would rearrange the furniture on the ceiling in my mind,” recalls Eneia White of her early creative aspirations. After earning a BFA in Interior Design from The Art Institute of […]
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Trump Tried to End Federal Arts Funding. Instead, It Grew.
Part of the argument against shuttering the arts endowment has always rested on the fact that culture is an economic engine and that, as federal agencies go, the N.E.A. is hardly an expensive one. Its $167.5 million budget for 2021 is still no more than what one city, New York, […]
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How Figma CEO Dylan Field grew the $2 billion design software startup
The demand for user experience and product design in tech are growing, and apps like Instagram, Uber, Slack, TikTok, and even Starbucks have become popular largely because of their design. Figma CEO Dylan Field launched the design software company to help teams better collaborate on their designs online. The growth […]
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How Bumble grew from a female-focused dating app to a global behemoth that’s reportedly headed toward an IPO valued at more than $6 billion
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Female-focused dating app Bumble was founded in late 2014 by Whitney Wolfe Herd and Andrey Andreev, the founder of dating app Badoo. Wolfe Herd was one of the cofounders of Tinder, but she left the company and later filed a sexual harassment lawsuit […]