IKEA and Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek have created a range of furniture and homeware that showcases imperfections, rather than hiding them. The collection, named Industriell, marks the second collaboration between IKEA and Hein Eek. It includes a range of limited-edition pieces, including chairs, tables, ceramics, textiles and glassware. With their craft-like aesthetic, the products are all designed to look slightly different […]

Oozing charm and confidence, 22-year-old Sithembiso Mutukura beat 12 other contestants in Zimbabwe’s first Miss Albinism beauty contest aimed at reducing stigma and increasing awareness about the condition. Friday’s “Beauty Beyond the Skin” pageant was held in a Harare nightclub, making Zimbabwe the second African country after Kenya to host such an event. Many African […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Early results and an exit poll showed that Vladimir Putin handily won a fourth term as Russia’s president Sunday, adding six years in the Kremlin for the man who has led the world’s largest country for all of the 21st century. The vote was tainted by widespread reports of ballot-box stuffing and […]

Why does Eminem get a “cultural appropriation” pass while Bruno Mars doesn’t? Bruno Mars, unfortunately, has become the latest victim of ridiculous accusations of “cultural appropriation” which was once a legitimate concept and concern. However, these days, “cultural appropriation” is a term that is often used to promote segregation. “Bruno Mars was the subject of […]

Oil and gas executives, worried new steel tariffs will crimp their business and that Donald Trump will pull the U.S. out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, delivered those concerns directly to the president. The executives from major oil companies, including ExxonMobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, met with Trump at 2:30 p.m. […]

After firing at least eleven missiles overnight into Palestinian lands east of Gaza city, several Israeli army vehicles and tanks invaded, on Monday morning, agricultural lands in Abasan village, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal region. Media sources said the Israeli tanks, and armored bulldozers, came from a military base, […]

For our latest competition, Dezeen is offering the chance to win a book dedicated to Zaha Hadid, whose untimely death in 2016 shook the architecture community and whose list of projects continues to grow under her eponymous firm. Zaha Hadid Architects: Redefining Architecture & Design delves into the designs of Hadid, “whose creative genius captured the collective imagination, influencing […]

With its prized location in the center of the Design District that has emerged along the 10th Street corridor, and with the attractions of Fifth Avenue South just five blocks away, The Ronto Group’s new walkable/bikeable Eleven Eleven Central community to be built by the developer on Central Avenue between 10th Street and Goodlette-Frank Road in […]

Kim Kardashian West’s new concealer line isn’t even out yet, and it’s already getting dragged on social media for not being inclusive enough. On Friday, the reality TV star took to Instagram and Twitter to debut a preview of KKW Beauty’s full range of concealers, which will be hitting her website next week. The campaign features a […]

HMS Trenchant breaks through a metre of ice in the Arctic in a show of Britain’s military strength. The Royal Navy submarine is taking part in Ice Exercise 18, a major operation in conjunction with US forces. It is the first time in a decade a Navy submarine has practiced beneath the ice amid increasing […]