Facebook Tweet Email Link Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died at the age of 91, the Armani Group announced on Thursday. The designer is credited over his decades of practice with curating a quintessentially Italian aesthetic in his clothes, as well as taking Hollywood’s red carpets to new heights. “Il Signor Armani, as he was always respectfully and admiringly …
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Designer babies: Should you try embryo selection via polygenic testing?
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that are equally valid but that often conflict with each other. To submit a question, fill out this anonymous form. Here’s this week’s question from a …
Read More »Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring Designer on Fan Reaction to Diamond
Originally appeared on E! Online Taylor Swift’s engagement ring designer is sharing an inspiring message. Days after the “Bejeweled” singer announced that she and Travis Kelce are set to exchange vows, Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry detailed the journey that led her to craft the breathtaking diamond. “My name is Kindred Lubeck,” she said in a video posted on …
Read More »RPG Designer Goes Missing After Crowdfunding Award-Winning Game
The perils of backing a crowdfunded game are nothing new; a successfully-financed campaign failing to deliver is hardly an outlier, and is often down to the team behind it being inexperienced. In the case of the RPG Grimwild, however, the lack of a delivered project is for potentially more serious reasons. The tabletop RPG, which was originally supported in 2024 …
Read More »How One Magic: The Gathering Designer Broke All the Rules and Created a Sensation
Making a Magic: The Gathering card is a long process. To go from an idea to an actual piece of paper in a player’s hand takes years, with each one being discussed, tweaked, tested, proofread, illustrated, and so on as it passes between the many different teams at developer Wizards of the Coast. Unless, that is, it’s a card for …
Read More »MTG Designer Reveals Universes Beyond Cards Could be Pulled From Standard
When it was first announced, the Universes Beyond product line was almost universally despised. Things really didn’t get off to a good start as the initial The Walking Dead Secret Lair was fraught with issues and controversy. For better or worse, since then, Wizards has taken several strides since then and largely turned things around. Nowadays, Universes Beyond MTG products …
Read More »Zelenskyy to wear military-style ‘suit’ to Trump summit, designer says – POLITICO
“At the same time, it is important to emphasize that it is Volodymyr Zelenskyy who personally decides what to wear,” she added. “The President is now in a state where every detail matters — his appearance, mood, emotions. Therefore, as the Leader of Ukraine, he chooses the image that best suits his role and moment.” Zelenskyy’s fashion choices, conveying solidarity …
Read More »James Bond 007 Logo Designer Was 103
Joe Caroff, the unheralded graphic designer whose iconic creations included James Bond‘s 007 gun logo, posters for West Side Story and A Hard Day’s Night and typography for Last Tango in Paris, Manhattan and Rollerball, died Sunday. He was 103. Caroff died one day short of birthday No. 104 in hospice care at his home in Manhattan, his sons, Peter and Michael Caroff, told The New …
Read More »Underwater jetpack ‘feels superhuman,’ says designer of his $30k gadget
Facebook Tweet Email Link London — It is the high-octane toy for those who have everything: an underwater jetpack that allows you to zip beneath the surface of the ocean – for as long as you can hold your breath. Described by its makers as an “innovation for those who demand the extraordinary,” the CudaJet is aimed at adrenaline junkies …
Read More »‘I don’t think it needs Nicki Minaj’: Battlefield 6 design designer says its skins will be ‘grounded’
The design director for Battlefield 6 says the game’s DLC skins will be “grounded” and will reflect the game’s setting, unlike Call of Duty. Speaking to DBLTAP at a Battlefield 6 event in London, design director Shashank Uchil was asked about the cosmetic skins planned for the game and how they would look. Uchil replied by stressing that they had …
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