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Interior

Hyundai, LG design Ioniq interior with TV, drinks, self-cleaning

By Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago

With space-saving electric powertrains becoming more common, and the prospect of autonomous driving seeming more possible, many automakers have been considering what a car interior may be like in the future. A common idea is to make it like a living room or like your house, and that’s the take Hyundai and LG Electronics have chosen for this Ioniq interior.

The companies specifically emphasize how this interior is made possible by electric powertrains that offer more packaging flexibility. This is also why it has been branded as an Ioniq interior, since Ioniq will be Hyundai’s EV brand. The interior is

Exterior

Amazon, Rivian reveal design of new EV electric delivery trucks

By Deedra Mcgillivray 1 month ago

The vehicles will begin delivering packages in 2021, and 10,000 electric delivery vans will be manufactured by 2022, Amazon said in a blog post. By 2030, 100,000 electric delivery vans will be in commission. The vehicles will be manufactured at Rivian’s plant in Normal, Ill., according to an Amazon spokeswoman.

“When we set out to create our first customized electric delivery vehicle with Rivian, we knew that it needed to far surpass any other delivery vehicle,” Ross Rachey, director of global fleet and products for Amazon, said in a statement.

“We wanted drivers to love using it and customers to

Design

Alight Celebrates Refugee-led Architecture and Design at Nakivale on World Architecture Day

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

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MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — While most of the world would consider an empty plastic bottle destined for recycling, those with a keen eye for design see opportunity. In Nakivale, one of the oldest refugee settlements in Africa, the use of everyday objects – plastic bottles, sand, old tarps – have been applied to build functional structures, including a recording studio and pop-up retail shop. These buildings have become staples throughout the settlement, further establishing the sentiment that this

Design

price, design, release date, leaks and news

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

Apple has finally, officially confirmed this year’s Apple iPhone event, and the launch of the next new iPhone, the iPhone 12.

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We’re expecting major updates, including the first iPhone design overhaul since 2017, potentially across a four-strong range of new iPhone 12 models, featuring a spread of different screen sizes. Whereas the current iPhone – the iPhone 11 – was more a case of ‘evolution’ rather than ‘revolution’, the iPhone 12 could well feature an all-new aesthetic and is expected to be packed with plenty of

Interior

Interior design tips improve your mental health

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

Marie Feltz
| Erie Times-News

Having been homebound for the major part of this year, it’s possible you have wondered about the effect your interior design might be having on your mental outlook. It’s a good question. In fact, mental health professionals have been examining the role interior design plays on mental health since long before the pandemic.

Psychology Tomorrow Magazine was at the forefront in its July 2016 article “Aesthetics and Well-Being: How Interior Design Affects Your Happiness.”

“It should not surprise us that interior designers are ‘stealing’ some knowledge from psychology to improve emotional impacts of the space,”

Design

Palm Beach architecture board says design for 756 Hi Mount Rd too big

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

The Palm Beach Architectural Commission liked the general look of the architecture designed for 756 Hi Mount Road but said the project was overscaled for its lakeside lot.

Darrell Hofheinz

| Palm Beach Daily News

The idea behind the design of a new custom home planned for 756 Hi Mount Road — on one of the highest points in Palm Beach — was to recall a villa on a Lombardy hillside, perhaps overlooking Lake Como, according to its architect.

“It’s very Italian,” Ken Tate of Ken Tate Architect recently told the Architectural Commission about the house planned

Exterior

2023 Ford F-150 EV Exterior Design Teased, Electric Truck Arriving Mid-2022

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

We’ve been shown prototypes thus far, but the Blue Oval has finally teased the front-end design of the real deal. The F-150 EV or whatever it will be called is going on sale in 2022 – most likely for the 2023 model year – and it will be made at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan.

The River Rouge Complex is a historical site for the Ford Motor Company, completed in 1928 when Henry Ford was still running the show. This is where parts of the Model T were also produced, but assembly took place at Highland Park.

Design

Iowa City is unwalkable by design

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

Letters to the Editor, Iowa City Press-Citizen
Published 5:30 a.m. CT Oct. 7, 2020

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City zoning practices give residents little reason to walk

Charlotte Fairlie raises some good points about the challenge of making Iowa City a walkable community, but she barely touches on the biggest problem: for the vast majority of Iowa City, there simply isn’t any reason to walk except for exercise or pleasure. Long ago, the city government, urged no doubt by housing developers, made the decision to zone just about every square foot not taken up by streets for housing of one kind or another

Design

Margulies Perruzzi Offers Guidance on How COVID-19 Affects Building Design | News

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

BOSTON, Oct. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Margulies Perruzzi (MP), one of New England’s most innovative architectural and interior design firms, today released a new report on the challenges facing commercial real estate and building design due to COVID-19. The firm’s research is available online and as a downloadable PDF at https://bit.ly/3cL4GVE.

In the spring of 2020, Margulies Perruzzi surveyed thousands of industry professionals to gain an understanding of the impact that COVID-19 had on the office environment. This report is being continuously updated to share the current thought leadership on the nature of work and how it is evolving.

Exterior

Honda NSX Reimagined With Retro-Futuristic Exterior Design, Minimalist Cockpit

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

The NSX was a ground-breaking design for its time, a mid-engine sports car unlike the Italian exotica of that era. Marketed under the Acura brand in the United States, the first generation is also beautiful thanks to some clever styling tricks.

As such, it’s easy to understand why the second gen wasn’t received well by the NSX community and pretty much everyone else. But at the same time, Honda would have been criticized if the newcomer would have been too close to the original in terms of exterior design. One can only dream, though…

Industrial and automotive designer Jordan Rubinstein-Towler

Decoration

Fall home decor trends: Comforting hues, flexible design | Lifestyle

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

In recent years, brown anything in a living space was considered by some arbiters of decor as drab and outdated. But this fall the hue is back in favor, in part because of the unsettled, anxious state of the world.

“Brown traditionally makes people feel comfortable and safe, and those are feelings that many of us are looking to our homes to provide,” says interior designer Dawn Hamilton of Oakland Park, Florida.

It’s just one of the trends in decor this season, when the pandemic has made home an even more essential space for living, working, studying and more. Also

Design

Learning Experiences by Design (LXbD) Partners With Co-Authors Dr. Elia Gourgouris and Konstantinos Apostolopoulos – Press Release

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

LAS VEGAS – October 6, 2020 – (Newswire.com)

LXbD welcomes positive psychology experts Dr. Elia Gourgouris and Konstantinos Apostolopoulos (Coach Kon) to its network of thought leaders. Together, Dr. Elia and Coach Kon have partnered to provide a practical guide to emotionally dealing with pandemics and other disasters in their two-part learning experience 7 Keys to Navigating a Crisis, which is based on their book by the same title.

As Dr. Elia and Coach Kon explain, “Organizational and HR leaders across the world are noting their top priority is ensuring the mental and physical well-being of their employees and

Exterior

2021 Hyundai HB20 Reimagined With All-New Tucson’s Exterior Design

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

The i20 is Hyundai’s entry in the subcompact hatchback segment in Europe. Confusingly, a similarly-sized model is marketed as the HB20 in South America.

HB means Hyundai Brazil while 20 is the automaker’s nomenclature for a B-segment passenger car. Last redesigned a year ago, the HB20 has been Photoshopped into a far sexier means of personal transportation by Brazilian pixel artist Kleber Silva. The Tucson makeover gives the econobox a totally different look, but it would be wishful thinking to expect a facelift with these exterior styling cues.

You see, the HB20 is a low-cost car for emerging markets where

Design

Virus-Responsive Design | American Libraries Magazine

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

A floor plan for furniture removal at Hennepin County (Minn.) Library’s Eden Prairie branch. Illustration: MSR Design

Libraries have always been spaces for discovery. But in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, they have been tasked with transforming themselves into places that allow users to physically distance while being more digitally connected than ever. As some institutions emerge from months of shutdowns, design and architecture experts seek to meet current health and safety challenges as well as safeguard these community spaces against an uncertain future.

Traci Engel Lesneski, CEO and principal at Minneapolis-based national architecture firm MSR Design, which has worked

Design

Los Angeles Declares Winner For New Streetlight Design Competition : NPR

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

Streetlights in Los Angeles are an icon of their own, but there hasn’t been a new design for more than 50 years.The city will announce a new design for streetlights after a major design competition.

NOEL KING, HOST:

In Los Angeles, there are more than 200,000 streetlights. You’ve probably seen some of them because so much stuff is filmed in LA that you see them in the backgrounds of movies and TV. Some are ornate. Most of them are pretty plain. But those lights have not been redesigned for more than 50 years, and now it’s happening. Here’s NPR’s Mandalit

Design

Project Designed To Empower Communities Wins Lexus Design Award 2020

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

Lexus Design Awards 2020 winning project by BellTower — Lexus Design Awards 2020 winning project by BellTower

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BellTower would like to address the critical infrastructure challenges facing developing nations with “Open Source Communities”. The Grand Prix Lexus Design Award 2020 winner proposes using innovative smart open-source planning to create affordable communities which can provide sustainable clean water resources. The multi-disciplinary Kenyan studio was selected from among 2,000 entries received from 79 countries worldwide – one of the highest numbers in the awards’ history.

Lexus Design Awards 2020 — Lexus Design Awards 2020

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Launched in 2013, the Lexus awards initiative is open to emerging international designers. Topics covered have little to do with

Design

Wellness Design Makes Surprise Appearance In Biden Campaign Speech

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

Biden mentions wellness design program for low income seniors in campaign speech about community and healthcare. — Biden mentions wellness design program for low income seniors in campaign speech about community and … [+] healthcare. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)

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It’s rare that wellness design, the growing practice of creating built spaces that support the well-being of their occupants, shows up in presidential campaigns, but it made an appearance in a policy speech Democratic nominee Joseph R. Biden Jr. gave in late July and streamed on Facebook Live. Here’s how he tied it into his healthcare policy-focused talk:

“There’s a pilot program now in 27 cities and 16 states where a nurse, an occupational therapist

Interior

ASID Releases Interior Design Resiliency Report

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) has released new research that sheds light on the ongoing effects COVID-19 is having on the design industry. Conducted in partnership with Benjamin Moore, Cosentino, and the Design Group at Emerald, which includes Hospitality Design, Boutique Design, ICFF, Healthcare Design, and Environments for Aging, the 2020 ASID Interior Design Resiliency Report contains data pooled from its first phase, collected during summer 2020.

The new findings examine attributes of interior design professionals, their experiences during the pandemic, and expected

Interior

Commercial interior design is in for a bumpy ride

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

The interior design industry has not historically been obsessed with—or even interested in—data. It’s a phenomenon all too familiar to Amanda Schneider, the founder of ThinkLab, a market research agency that seeks to bring a quantitative approach to a highly qualitative industry. “We have to sell ‘why research’ more than what we actually do,” she tells Business of Home. “[As designers], we are a bunch of passionate individuals that really trust our guts.”

Since ThinkLab was acquired by Sandow in 2018 (the firm was originally named Contract Consulting Group), Schneider has been working on both privately funded studies for

Design

A Guide To San Diego’s First Design Week

By Deedra Mcgillivray 2 months ago

KPBS Midday Edition Segments podcast branding

San Diego’s multifaceted design community — architecture, fashion, tech, style, music, art, home design, food and beverage design and more — comes together for exhibitions, workshops, panels, shows and more.

Aired: September 8, 2020 | Transcript

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