Beats executive Jaime Schusser explained that the new Beats 360 headphones were built around customization, letting wearers swap ear cushions between fabric and eco-friendly leather options to suit workouts or style. He said the design targets a broad audience but especially appeals to younger buyers who enjoy mixing and matching, likening it to owning multiple sneaker pairs. Schusser added that despite the fresh, lighter look, the headphones retain Beats' brand identity through its signature colors and logo.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-22
Oskar Flodstrom, a 23-year-old Los Angeles artist who skipped college to pursue creative work, transformed a free acrylic base found on Facebook Marketplace into a pill-bottle-shaped side table. The design went viral on social media, leading to a partnership with the brand NO LOGO and roughly $150,000 in sales within two weeks.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-17
Pentagram partner Paula Scher, with associate partner Bruno Bergallo and project manager Olivia Ray, created a hand-drawn logo for Women+ on the Edge of Democracy, an upcoming revue featuring 10-minute plays and monologues by 36 women playwrights addressing the current state of democracy. The design deliberately compresses the title's text into a tight frame, a visual metaphor for how women are pushed to the margins of democratic life.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-16
Illustrator and researcher Avery Robinson published an essay examining how heavy metal's iconic distressed visual style—torn flyers, gritty band logos, smudged toner—originated from the limitations of cheap photocopiers and low-quality paper used by DIY scenes decades ago. The piece argues these analog printing flaws became a deliberate aesthetic choice that metal culture has preserved even as design tools moved to digital.
truegrittexturesupply.com
· 2026-09-14
The piece walks through Logo's structure, showing how programmers define new procedures using 'to' and 'end' and combine simple shapes like squares into more complex ones like flowers and gardens. It notes that user-defined procedures behave identically to built-in primitives, so there's no visible distinction between them once written.
el.media.mit.edu
· 2026-09-09
Samsara, a connected operations software company, has replaced its blue abstract-owl logo and generic lowercase wordmark with a bold, sturdy new identity built around construction-site yellow and a heavier typeface. The redesign moves away from typical tech-startup branding toward visual cues tied to trucks, warehouses, and industrial equipment where its sensors and software are actually deployed.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-08-27
Microsoft has begun early preorders for select fans of its translucent green 25th anniversary Xbox Series X bundle, priced at $900 and including a matching controller and a digital copy of Halo: Campaign Evolved. Wider preorders open August 27, with shipping set for November 15, close to the original console's 2001 launch date.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-26
A developer explored the world of stylized QR codes, noting how logos and photos are often crammed into codes at the cost of scannability due to Reed-Solomon error correction limits. Inspired by AI-generated and hand-crafted QR art examples, they built their own design tool called QRFrame, which changes how the black-and-white modules are rendered while keeping codes functional.
kylezhe.ng
· 2026-08-24
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