Tag: Designing

The Future of Design Is Designing for Disability

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August 1, 2023

Accessibility should not be a grudging afterthought. With planning, it can lead to elegant, beautiful, and engaging art.

Alice Sheppard, a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and short curly hair, crouches onstage, legs and wheels curled toward her core, arms reaching toward the camera. Dappled purple and blue lighting covers Sheppard and the floor, as a projection of white and yellow barbed wire extends from under her. She peers intently beyond the camera, eyebrows

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Cosy ‘book nooks’ for bookworms from London to New York – and top tips for designing your own

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Here’s a novel idea – build your own book nook.

And for inspiration here we present an array of cosy alcoves designed specifically for laid-back afternoons of page-turning and tea sipping, tucked inside everything from grand London townhouses to stylish New York City office blocks.

Crafting a reading nook is easier than you think, as Charu Gandhi, founder and director of the London-based interior design firm Elicyon reveals.

Gandhi says: ‘An ideal reading nook is essentially any peaceful and comfortable

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Stylist Tiffany Hasbourne Became A ‘Custom Queen’ Designing On ‘Atlanta’ And ‘P-Valley’

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The glitz and glamour of entertainment is nothing without the people who dress today’s biggest stars. For “Who’s Behind the Clothes,” HuffPost spotlights stylists and costume designers who have delivered some of our favorite celebrities’ or characters’ most memorable looks. Read my interview with “Industry” costume designer Colleen Morris-Glennon.

Tiffany Hasbourne has taken her fashion talents global, from her Caribbean household in the LeFrak City neighborhood in Queens, New York, to Colombia, Germany and beyond. But before she became the

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