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We're back with a new round of R&D explorations. This time, we continued experimenting with procedural workflows in Houdini, Redshift, and Photoshop, creating a series of abstract card concepts inspired by different materials, simulations, and surface qualities. The goal wasn't to design a finished product, but to push our creative process, test new techniques, and discover unexpected visual directions. R&D is one of our favorite ways to explore ideas that often find their way into future client work.
Exclusive: Westminster survey finds one in two staffers experiencing clinical levels of psychological distress
Staff employed by MPs are calling for urgently tightened security after reports of some being physically attacked and hundreds receiving threatening calls and messages.
A survey of more than 500 MPs’ staff members found that 78% had received threatening communication and nearly one in three fear for their own safety or that of colleagues.
Continue reading...If Andy Burnham is minded to grasp the nettle, he will need to sell it to people like me. The right will call it a ‘death tax’ – why not a levy for ageing well?
One of the last things Andy Burnham did before entering Downing Street was to go and see his father.
Now living in a nursing home, Roy Burnham has Alzheimer’s and isn’t really aware of his son’s new job. But perhaps the prime minister wanted, in part, to try to explain why he might not be visiting so often in future.
Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Whether you’re on a staycation or jetting away, drawstring trousers and clever layering will keep you cool
Continue reading...These bright, sharp Mexican iced treats are the perfect summer cooler – with a spiky kick
The first time I encountered paletas in Mexico, they felt strangely familiar. They reminded me of the iced treats of my Malaysian childhood: fruit-driven, brightly coloured and made less to indulge than to relieve the heat. What struck me most was the flavour logic shared by both countries, where sweetness is often enlivened with salt, chilli, tamarind or citrus, each sharpening the fruit in its own way and making it seem brighter, cooler and somehow more vivid. Paletas are rarely perfectly smooth; little pieces of fruit suspended in the ice give them texture and interest. These two paletas take different paths from the same base: pineapple – sharp, clean and bright with lime and ginger – and mango – sweeter, rounder and more indulgent, which I’ve spiked with chilli, lime and salt.
Continue reading...Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts
A US study has found a 70% drop in hospital admissions and days off from work or school when people with poorly controlled asthma had their gas stove and hob replaced with electric.
Ohio’s publicly owned MetroHealth began the study in December 2024 but funding was terminated early by the incoming Trump administration. It had been designed to investigate if replacing gas cooking improved asthma for 1,200 people living near Cleveland, Ohio.
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Terwijl de AI-race tussen de grootmachten in volle gang is, is ook de ‘bio-race’ begonnen. De Chinese start-up StairMed ontwikkelt namelijk een breinchip die gezonde personen kan upgraden. Denk aan Neuralink van Musk, maar dan anders.
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