An App That Tracks Your Movement to Help You Relax, Even in the Back of a Cab

Of all the places to meditate, the backseat of a yellow cab isn’t ideal. And yet, the other day I found myself stuck in traffic feeling tranquil, or at least less agitated than I’d usually be given the circumstances. As the firetruck next to me blared its sirens, I cradled my phone in my...

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Tickets For Burning Man 2017 Sold Out In Just 35 Minutes

Much like the festival itself, tickets for Burning Man appeared — and now they are gone.


The 30,000 festival passes available during the main sale sold out in just 35 minutes, the Reno Gazette Journal reported. The massive gathering in the Nevada desert, which began in California with...

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A Classic Parisian Apartment Gets a Geometric Intervention

Apartment XIV is a modest 80 square meter (approx. 861 square feet) apartment in a 150 year old Haussmannian building owned by a young couple with an adorable dog. They hired Studio Razavi Architecture to redefine the space and to update it for their modern taste and lifestyle.

The...

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'Books Not Bombs' Initiative Promotes Education For Syrian Scholars

Years of war have left a generation of Syrian youth with limited access to education. Their schools have been bombed and many of them have been displaced by an ongoing civil war that shows no signs of letting up soon. An estimated 200,000 or more Syrians who were in college before and...

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A London Wood Yard Converted into a Light-Filled, Family Home

De Rosee Sa Architects were hired when a client bought land across the street from where they were living in order to prevent the property from becoming overdeveloped. A storage shed that was already on the land, which had been a wood yard, is what drove the housing restrictions for the new...

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Debbie Reynolds And Carrie Fisher Remembered At Public Memorial Service

In a beautiful public memorial service on Saturday, over 1,200 family members, friends and fans of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher paid tribute to the iconic mother-daughter duo nearly three months after their deaths. 


Hosted by Reynolds’ son and Fisher’s brother, Todd Fisher, the event...

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A House with a Massive, Undulating, Wave-Like Exterior

LA-based architect Mario Romano designed a house in Venice, California, that’s unlike any other. The Wave House spans 5,700 square feet with five bedrooms and four bathrooms featuring a series of organically designed floors and walls that are just as visually intriguing as its undulating...

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Despite Death Threats, Artist Behind Nazi-Themed Trump Billboard Plans To Make More

After designing a controversial billboard that appeared in Phoenix, Arizona, last week, artist Karen Fiorito has received a lot of death threats.


Her billboard, on view since March 17, features President Donald Trump’s visage surrounded by swastika money signs and twin nuclear mushroom...

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Design Milk Travels to... Amsterdam

Amsterdam is a city defined by diametric forces: land vs. water, preservation vs. progress, art vs. commerce, high vs. low culture. In between these opposing forces, the most populous city in the Netherlands finds itself enjoying a renaissance as an international art and design hub, bustling...

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https://skpsoft.com/art-culture/design-milk-travels-to-amsterdam/

Here's The Delightful Trailer For The 'Love Actually' Mini-Sequel

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Free Float: A Modern Pool House in Sands Point, New York

The UP Studio was hired when a family of four longed to build a pool cabana that favored the style of their neo-traditional house in Sands Point, New York. After learning that type of design wouldn’t meet their requirements, they asked the firm to create a modern pool house that wouldn’t...

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The Most Clichéd And Most Exclamation-Prone Authors, By The Numbers

The numbers don’t lie: James Patterson loves clichés. He deploys 160 for every 100,000 words he publishes. Yikes!


In a new book, Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician Ben Blatt runs the numbers on bestselling and classic literature, coming to some startling ― and not-so-startling...

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Friday Five with Theodore Kerlidis

Architect Theodore Kerlidis landed his role as Director of Melbourne-based k20 Architecture in 2001 when he launched the firm with Anthony Uahwatanasakul. His Greek parents moved to Australia in the 1960s where he found his architecture calling after discovering 1950s designs. That love led...

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Haunting Photos Show Polar Bears In Captivity Around The World

A compelling photo series is challenging the way that humans look at and understand wild animals kept in captivity.


Photographer Sheng Wen Lo, who is from Taiwan but based in the Netherlands, began taking pictures of polar bears in zoos in 2014. The resulting photo series, titled “White...

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A Minimalist House Designed for a Couple Desiring a Downsize

When a couple in Seattle decided to pare down and simplify their lifestyle, they hired Suyama Peterson Deguchi to design a minimalist house that still felt like home but without all of the excess. The Junsei House offers the homeowners a retreat from the hustle of everyday life with its...

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Trump's Budget Proposes To Eliminate Arts Agencies, As Many Feared

President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 arrived in the night, and it’s a doozy.


Arts advocates have particular reason to be outraged. The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities are among 19 bodies slated to be defunded entirely...

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The Design Milk Newsletter Gets a Facelift

Since our little refresh last year, I’ve been wanting to update our daily and weekly email newsletters. Our daily email blasts you fresh design every weekday, and our weekly newsletter shares the most popular posts from the prior week. If you don’t get one of these newsletters, you’re...

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Stunning Photo Series Urges Moms To 'Love Your Postpartum' Body

All of Mikaela Shannon’s work is focused on self-love, and her latest project is no exception. The Canada-based photographer has been photographing new moms in what she’s calling the “Love Your Postpartum” sessions, and the results are stunning. 


“All of my work revolves around loving...

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A Jaw-Dropping, Oceanfront Penthouse in Miami Beach

New York-based Smiros & Smiros Architects had worked with this client four times before being hired to complete this penthouse apartment in Miami Beach, Florida. On the shores of South Beach, this project spans an entire floor of the building, along with rooftop terraces that boast 360...

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See The Full-Throttle Trailer For 'Baby Driver,' The Ansel Elgort Movie That Rocked SXSW

Ansel Elgort drives getaway cars and Jon Hamm plays a psychopathic bank robber in “Baby Driver,” already one of 2017’s big-screen highlights. Crowds and critics went wild for the movie Saturday at its South by Southwest premiere, and new trailer makes it easy to see why. 


“Baby Driver”...

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Folded House by Scott Posno Design

Located in Vancouver’s West Point Grey neighborhood, the Folded House was designed by Scott Posno Design for a working couple whose sons had grown up and moved out. The empty nesters wanted to replace their aging family home with a modern one that would work with their personal and...

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Mom Destroys Breast Pump In 'Office Space'-Inspired Photo Shoot

As a child grows, there comes a time to put away childish things. The accoutrements of babyhood ― Diaper Genies, strollers, Baby Bjorns, etc. ― must eventually be trashed, donated or put into storage for the next child.


But one mom decided to go a step further and do away with her breast...

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Grid by APOLLO Architects & Associates

Grid is a minimal residence located in Tokyo, Japan, designed by APOLLO Architects & Associates. The client, an avid art collector, wanted a new home with museum-like qualities that would take advantage of his collection. While the neighborhood surrounding the site is quiet, the...

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Female And LGBTQ Filmmakers Get An Overdue Moment To Shine In NYC

A three-day New York festival is putting work by emerging women, LGBTQ and other marginalized filmmakers in the spotlight. 


The New York Premiere Film Festival, which kicks off April 10, will showcase short films, each of which must be no longer than 20 minutes, from all over the world....

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Happy International Women's Day! #DayWithoutAWoman 2017

Hi DM readers. Today is International Women’s Day and we’re joining the Women’s March, women and allies around the world for a one-day demonstration of economic solidarity—the #DayWithoutAWoman—in the name of equity, justice and the human rights of women and all gender-oppressed people. As a...

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Feminist Sci-Fi Writers Dream Up A Better Future For Women And Reproductive Health

According to the rhetoric used by Donald Trump during the presidential debates, women can “rip” babies out of their wombs moments before birth. This imagery runs counter to current laws, which in most states allow abortions only before a fetus has reached 24 to 26 weeks. Some states outlaw...

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Friday Five with Matt Berman of Workshop/APD

Photo by Arthur Cohen

Architect Matt Berman is a founding principal of Workshop/APD, a New York City-based architecture and design firm specializing in high-end residential and commercial projects. Berman, along with his business partner Andrew Kotchen, launched the firm in 1999 and have...

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Why Kristina From 'The Bachelor' Still Thinks Nick Didn't Give Her A Fair Shot

One of the most universally beloved contestants on Nick Viall’s season of “The Bachelor” was undoubtedly Kristina Schulman. The 24-year-old Kentucky dental hygienist won over Bachelor Nation when she spoke movingly about her childhood in Russia and her eventual adoption and emigration to...

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https://skpsoft.com/art-culture/why-kristina-from-the-bachelor-still-thinks-nick-didnt-give-her-a-fair-shot/

Cloud Room: A Modern Shared Working Space in Seattle

Cloud Room is a private, member’s only, shared working environment in Seattle that’s the product of a joint collaboration between Graham Baba Architects and Brian Paquette Interiors who oversaw the design of the co-working space. While it’s an office for people to work in, it doesn’t feel...

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https://skpsoft.com/art-culture/cloud-room-a-modern-shared-working-space-in-seattle/

How A Ghanian-German Artist Uses Personal Style To Express Her Hybrid Identity

Zohra Opoku was 12 years old when she first started sewing her own outfits, bored by the options available to her in East Germany, where she lived.


The budding artist, of Ghanaian and German descent, realized then the transcendent power that fashion possessed. Clothing could communicate...

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A Former Air Base Is Converted Into Modern Design Studio

Though it was built in the 1930s, the Ypenburg Air Base in the Netherlands was way ahead of its time. Designed by famous Dutch architects Jan Brinkman and Leendert van der Vlugt, the air base was recently renovated to become a studio for design brand, VanBerlo.

VanBerlo worked with Remko...

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