This how-to article aims at providing designers, creative thinkers or even project managers with a tool to set up, frame, organise, structure, run or manage design challenges, and projects: The Double Diamond revamped. The Double Diamond revamped In order to do so, I have come up with an own and a…

This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. When Bob Dylan was crowned with the laurel wreath of Nobel recognition in literature last year, the internet got het up. Rumors of Dylan's shortlisting by the committee have swirled every year since 1996 but often were dismissed as pipe dreams .…

In the hours following the news of the death of Tim Bergling—the Swedish DJ and producer known to the world as Avicii, who was found dead yesterday in Muscat, Oman —I've been fascinated by social media testimonials focusing on the experiences derived from listening to "Levels" and his other singles,…

SAN FRANCISCO–LOS ANGELES–LONDON–SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN ENGLAND— The twelve of us at Campo Santo have agreed to join Valve, where we will maintain our jobs as video game developers and continue production on our current project, In the Valley of Gods . If you’re the type of person who gives two flips…

President Trump 's legal team is bracing for the possibility that Michael Cohen could flip on the president and cooperate with prosecutors, according to a New York Times report . Cohen, a longtime personal attorney and fixer for Trump, has repeatedly pledged his loyalty to the president, insisting…

WASHINGTON — He has a reputation as a principled lawyer. He has worked for both Republican and Democratic attorneys general. He has a jugular instinct in courtroom battles but a distaste for political ones. Now Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, is confronting the political fight of his…

THE MORNING PLUM: Former FBI director James B. Comey’s new book and media tour have been closely scrutinized in all kinds of ways, but there should be a lot more media discussion about another inescapable takeaway from his revelations: The grievances of Hillary Clinton and her supporters about what…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook Inc users around the world would be protected by it. The online social network is making changes that ensure the number will be much…

STX Films/Ringer illustration The last words we hear in the new Amy Schumer movie—and I Feel Pretty is the kind of feature designed to be referred to as “the new Amy Schumer movie,” though Schumer neither wrote nor directed it—aren’t the comedian’s. They belong to a spin instructor, shouting the…

The message of many things in America is “Like this or die.” — George W.S. Trow, Within the Context of No Context , 1980 The Seeing Robot The camera is a small, white, curvilinear monolith on a pedestal. Inside its smooth casing are a microphone, a speaker, and an eye-like lens. After I set it up on…

Over the last few months, Select All has interviewed more than a dozen prominent technology figures about what has gone wrong with the contemporary internet for a project called “ The Internet Apologizes .” We’re now publishing lengthier transcripts of each individual interview. This interview…

President Trump wanted then-FBI Director James Comey to investigate the infamous pee-tape allegations to reassure First Lady Melania Trump that he hadn’t actually paid Russian hookers to urinate on a hotel bed, the former top G-man claims in his new book. “He brought up what he called the ‘golden…

The orchestrated presidential succession underway this week in Cuba, from Raúl Castro to his likely replacement Miguel Díaz-Canel, is prompting a new round of speculation about how the Trump administration should react to the long-awaited departure of the Castro brothers from power. Judging from the…

Donald Trump and his advisors are increasingly worried that Michael Cohen—Trump’s longtime lawyer, whose home and offices were raided by the FBI last week—will be impelled to cooperate with federal prosecutors. “They’re going to threaten him with a long prison term and try to turn him into a canary…

Evan Rachel Wood plays a host on ”Westworld,” where life is presented as nasty, brutish, and punishingly long. Photograph by John P. Johnson / HBO At the end of the first season of “ Westworld ,” the artificially intelligent humanoids who populate the titular Wild West theme park—outlaws and barmen…

The Icelandic maverick wants to ‘break the chains of the f***-ups of our fathers’ Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 05:00 Björk, in her butterfly-as-blossoming-flower dress, a 21st century Titania. Photograph: Santiago Felipe/Getty Images Björk’s 2015 record, Vulnicura , was so raw, painful and searching that when…

Before Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was abruptly fired, he oversaw a State Department that appeared to be plunged into chaos at every level. Photograph by Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Rex Tillerson’s team was fighting again. “So, who’s going to go in with him?” Margaret Peterlin, his chief…

We have lived with the idea of the pee tape for so long that it almost feels as if we have already seen it. Photograph by Eric Thayer / Bloomberg / Getty Last Thursday, in the late afternoon, I checked in on Twitter and discovered that the end-of-the-day, almost-end-of-the-week,…

This video comparison shows how RetroArch emulation can actually react to button inputs more quickly than original NES hardware. We've previously written about how difficult it is to perfectly emulate classic video game consoles even with powerful modern computer hardware. Now, the coders behind the…

Lars von Trier at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, when he was declared persona non grata. He will return for the first time this year. Joel Ryan/Associated Press Lars von Trier, the Danish film director who was declared persona non grata by the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 for his remarks about…

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and longtime friend of President Trump, will join the president’s legal team in an effort to “quickly” resolve the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference and possible ties to Trump associates. Mr. Trump will also bring on…

Each April, record collectors across the country flock to their local record store for the annual vinyl celebration that is Record Store Day . The day offers a chance to pick up exclusive releases, hunt for hidden finds, and avoid eye contact at all costs. Record Store Day tends to bring out the…

Thirty years ago, France led the world into the 21st century, but the world hardly noticed. In 1981-82, two French inventions offered a glimpse of the future. One was the Train à Grande Vitesse (TGV) or high-speed train. The other was the Minitel. The what? Long before the coming of the World Wide…

Maria Bustillos | Columbia Journalism Review | February 2018 |2900 words (12 minutes) This story is published in collaboration with the Columbia Journalism Review , whose Winter 2018 issue covers threats to journalism. The Honolulu Advertiser doesn’t exist anymore, but it used to publish a regular…

In May this year we raised $337k on Kickstarter for the launch of the Handbook . It seemed like a healthy sum. But what does it take to prepare a campaign on Kickstarter? What are the pros and cons of using the platform to launch a passion project? How much of the money raised do you actually see?…

In late 2017, Salvator Mundi , one of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings, sold for $450.3 million. For a child born out of wedlock in the 15th century, that’s quite an accomplishment. And yet, many would argue that this isn’t even close to being his greatest contribution to humanity. When the word…

Photo: Lara Kastner. It’s fifty degrees in January, and the air in the Garment District smells strangely of pea soup. The building I’ve been directed to is supposed to be an art gallery, but all I can find is an office-supply showroom. I wait outside on a street dotted with FedEx trucks, Pret A…

Even some critics who find beauty in "Isle of Dogs" admit the director falters when it comes to respectfully depicting Japanese culture. Zack Sharf Mar 22, 2018 4:36 pm Share This Article “Isle of Dogs” Fox Searchlight View Gallery 16 Photos Wes Anderson ’s “ Isle of Dogs ” has received near…

The first time I met Christopher Wylie, he didn’t yet have pink hair. That comes later. As does his mission to rewind time. To put the genie back in the bottle. By the time I met him in person , I’d already been talking to him on a daily basis for hours at a time. On the phone, he was clever, funny,…

In 2012, on a light-drenched stage amid screams and cheers, Star Trek actress Zoe Saldana announced Spike Video Game Awards’ game of the year: The Walking Dead . The win was a huge coup for its relatively small developer, Telltale Games. Its emotional, storytelling-focused take on the popular zombie…

C urtis Stone , a stranger from Kelowna, British Columbia, is sitting on the couch in my Mile End apartment. It’s a cold March evening, and we’re drinking local beer, eating Saint-André cheese, and talking music preferences. Stone—a Barr Brothers fan—is wearing designer glasses and has a hipster…

The “Baker” explosion, part of Operation Crossroads, a nuclear weapon test by the United States military at Bikini Atoll , Micronesia, on 25 July 1946. A designer is first and foremost a human being. Before you are a designer, you are a human being. Like every other human being on the planet, you…

Can the American Giant hoodie revolutionize "Made in the USA"? Courtesy American Giant. Early in October, I got a call from Bayard Winthrop, an entrepreneur who claimed to have created the world’s best hooded sweatshirt. Because I found this claim amusing—who sets out to make the world’s best…

To the person who emailed me this morning with a perfectly nice request, I’m sorry to say the answer is no. You didn’t do anything wrong. You were perfectly respectful and within your rights to ask about arranging a time for a meeting (or was it for a phone call or about setting a date for that…

In a time when no one agrees on anything, some vague consensus can be found around the idea that more American manufacturing would be good. Rarely does someone say publicly, “Actually, I think there should be less American manufacturing.” (Although it happens .) Politicians, particularly our current…

Everyone knows the names of the Directors of famous pictures, but what about the Cinematographers behind them? Let’s take a look at some of the best longtime collaborations that produced a series of great films. Cover image: Roger Deakins via Following The Nerd To count as a longtime collaboration,…

A neighborhood in Cayey, Puerto Rico, remains without power five months after Hurricane Maria. About half of the town is still in the dark, one of several factors that has led Puerto Rican residents to flee to the mainland United States. (Erika P. Rodriguez/For The Washington Post) SAN JUAN, Puerto…

Europe is struggling to keep up with the times after a political dispute resulted in electric clocks running six minutes behind. Paul Bricknell/Getty Images/Dorling Kindersley For the past few weeks, something strange has been happening in Europe. Instead of time marching relentlessly forward, it…

When I was 12, Saddam Hussein, vice president of Iraq at the time, carried out a huge purge and officially usurped total power. I was living in Baghdad then, and I developed an intuitive, visceral hatred of the dictator early on. That feeling only intensified and matured as I did. In the late 1990s,…

The American confectionery company Victoria Sweets claims to have invented the candy cigarette. A thin stick of chocolate, wrapped in edible paper and designed to impersonate a roll-up, it debuted in 1915 and soon became the accessory of choice for children keen to play grown-up. Hollywood star, GI…