See the wild, beautiful, and almost unbelievable fashion of Iris van Herpen

Business 5/16 6:00A Elizabeth Segran

A 20-year retrospective of couture from fashion’s most interesting designer lands at the Brooklyn Museum. When Olympic skier Eileen Gu walked the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Met Gala on May 4, she wore a short, shimmering gown...

Delta CEO used AI to write his commencement speech, then trashed it

Business 5/16 3:00A Ella Chakarian

‘Taking a shortcut or pushing the easy button can sometimes be quite tempting,’ Ed Bastian said. ‘But they never yield an enduring result …’ During a commencement address at Emory University in Atlanta on Monday, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian...

Figma changed how it charges for AI features. Its stock price just swung to a seven-week high

Business 5/15 8:45A Sarah Fielding

In March, the design software firm started enforcing AI credit limits. Now it just revealed that customers are opting to buy more after hitting their caps. With its AI credit limits officially up and running, design software maker Figma has just...

The busiest commuter train system in the U.S. could be headed for an imminent shutdown

Business 5/15 8:12A Associated Press

A Long Island Rail Road strike could begin on Saturday, May 16. North America s largest commuter rail system is facing a potential shutdown as a deadline nears to reach a deal with unionized workers to avert a strike . The Long Island Rail Road...

A Pokémon-themed airport aims to help Japanese city’s earthquake recovery

Business 5/15 6:15A María José Gutiérrez Chávez

Pikachu to the rescue. Airports around the world tend to fall somewhere between the beautifully designed and artfully efficient (think Changi , in Singapore) and the messy and chaotic (sorry, Newark Liberty). But a newly redesigned airport in...

Welcome to the age of the underdog AI model

Business 5/14 6:00A Mark Wilson

A $20 million investment from Krea demonstrates that promising AI innovation can come from smaller companies betting big. Custom AI models are not just for the AI giants anymore. Because the 37-person startup Krea is releasing its first generative...

Leaders shouldn’t toss around the ‘AI’ buzzword in layoffs. Here’s why

Business 5/14 5:12A Andy Hamilton

If you told the market the layoff was about AI, and your people know it was about a missed product launch, you’ve just taught your company that leadership says what’s useful, not what’s true. Layoffs used to be something that made a company’s...

What new AI design tools mean for brand typography

Business 5/13 9:38A williamrichardson1

The bad news: they make your brand appear safe and generic. The good news: brands that distinguish themselves can stand out even more. Anthropic has just announced Claude Design , a tool that lets teams generate and iterate visual design outputs...

Walmart layoffs today: Tech-related jobs get cut as retail giant consolidates product and design...

Business 5/13 7:41A Michael Grothaus

In a memo to staff, Walmart executives notably did not mention AI as a driver of a new round of layoffs and relocations. Here’s what to know. Retail giant Walmart Inc has confirmed that it will eliminate some jobs. However, the affected positions...

Victoria’s Secret tests a blueprint for the future of Pink with a cozy, glossy new store

Business 5/13 7:00A Lilly Smith

Glossy, cozy, FOMO-inducing. How Adam Selman designed a store that he hopes will get Gen Z and Gen Alpha girls off their phones and into Pink. The closest thing to the idealized mall you recall either from personal memory or from cultural lore...

Ikea’s newest furniture makes Scandinavian design fun again

Business 5/13 6:00A Nate Berg

The new Ikea PS collection features a range of whimsical furnishings that could redefine the future of the company’s design approach. Inside Ikea s movie studio-size marketing and production facility at the company s headquarters in Älmhult,...

The app this Nebraska roofing company built to help its business has become a super tool for...

Business 5/13 5:15A Patrick Sisson

CompanyCam began as a way for White Castle Roofing to monitor the work on its job sites. Now it’s valued at nearly $2 billion. There are many ways to measure the success of CompanyCam, a Lincoln, Nebraska-based startup unicorn that popularized a...

This tiny Maine town used AI to make a new logo. Its residents had other ideas

Business 5/13 5:00A Hunter Schwarz

In a state where major data center construction is now banned, the residents of a small town blocked the adoption of an AI-generated logo. After proposing a new design for its municipal logo on Facebook, one tiny Maine town faced backlash in the...

The 3 career narratives keeping designers stuck (and how to break them)

Business 5/13 4:39A Vivianne Castillo

Corporate loyalty isn’t the same as self-respect. I ve sat across from enough designers to know that the moment someone starts questioning whether to leave their role, they rarely lack options, they lack permission. And most of the time, that...

Musk warns Sam Altman will be one of America’s ‘most hated’ men as the OpenAI trial continues

Business 5/12 10:20A Associated Press

Elon Musk’s lawsuit is seeking to unseat Sam Altman from OpenAI’s leadership for a second time. In a trial featuring a clash between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman , neither of the tech titans has emerged as an overly sympathetic character....