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Five Benefits of Online Shopping and Offline Shopping

RetailMinded

People decide to do shopping online or offline due to several reasons. When shopping online, there are several benefits you will enjoy. Online shopping allows you to save time and money. You can relax in your home and use your laptop to access several shopping sites online. The ability to compare several shopping sites online make it easy to save money.

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Getting to know Marylou Faure and the “strong and feminine” women she draws

Design Week

“I always try to present my female characters in a similar way — as strong and feminine, in the hope that some of their qualities will reflect on me, as well as my audience,” says Marylou Faure. “My characters never care about what other people think about them and neither should we.” The above is a quote from the Parisian illustrator’s new monograph — a 216-page compendium of illustrative work published by Counter-Print.

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Sella Concept brings retro feel to Sister Jane Townhouse in London

Dezeen

Fringed furnishings and velvet walls feature inside the west London headquarters that design studio Sella Concept has created for fashion brand Sister Jane, which includes a showroom, restaurant and roof terrace. Sella Concept said it drew upon "untapped maximalist style" to design Sister Jane Townhouse, which takes over a prominent corner property on Golborne Road in the affluent neighbourhood of Notting Hill.

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A boom for the warehousing sector then?

Edge

In a changing world, whilst the roles of the High Street and City Centres’ are being re-written with a surge in online shopping – demand in the multi-let industrial and warehousing sector will boom. Manufacturing unit based in Deeside. Identity and collateral positioned client as ‘Experts in its field’. Edge has extensive experience within this sector – designing industrial and warehouse facilities for maximum productivity, efficiency and flexibility; securing planning permission for new buildin

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AI for Commerce: Foundations, Aspirations, and Hype

AI is rapidly transforming digital commerce, but how do you separate real opportunities from hype? Moderated by Orium, AI for Commerce: Foundations, Aspirations, and Hype , experts from Bloomreach , commercetools , Contentstack , and Fluent Commerce explores where AI is already delivering results and where its potential is still unfolding. This masterclass dives into proven AI applications, emerging innovations , and the gaps between promise and reality in commerce.

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Branding Design – 5 ways good brand design can help your business

Parker Design

What do you stand for? What do you want to achieve? What do you want to be known, and remembered, for? And for how long? To answer all those questions, you may need to consider taking a fresh look at your branding design. Like every individual, each business is unique, so the brand that represents all that you are must also be unique to make a lasting impression.

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Maserati reveals new logo to launch “modern” era

Design Week

Italian car company Maserati has unveiled a new version of its trident logo as part of a new identity which will represent the brand’s latest era. The updated identity includes a new version of the luxury brand’s logo, on-car badges as well as a refined wordmark. The updated trident The new branding was revealed at the launch of the marque’s new sports car MC20, which had a digital launch in Modena.

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Gen Zers. we're listening

Edge

Megan Gurney-Smith. Gen Zer/Designer. Emily Carpenter. Gen Zer/Designer - Intern. Ibrahim Muasher. Gen Zer/Designer. Alice Reid. Gen Zer/Marketing Assistant. Wordsworth ‘Wandered Lonely as a cloud’ but he wasn’t lonely as we know the meaning of the word today – he was just not walking next to anyone. Historian, Thomas Dixon, reminded me of this on Radio 4’s programme ‘A Short History of Solitude’.

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Rustic Wood Displays For The Fall Season

Scrube

The long days of summer are coming to a close and soon the air will turn chilly, the leaves will crunch underfoot, and we’ll switch from refreshing iced tea and lemonade to creamy cocoa and tart apple cider. As customers begin to bundle and prepare for the colder months, it’s time to turn your attention to how best to outfit your retail space for fall, and rustic wood displays are the perfect way to infuse your décor with the comforting appeal of autumn.

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Creative Spark brand hospitality app Peazi with “northern charm”

Design Week

Manchester-based design studio Creative Spark has created the “vibrant” branding for recently-launched hospitality app Peazi. Peazi has been created in an attempt to maintain social distancing measures as restaurants begin to serve customers once more post-lockdown (though measures are being changed often). [link]. Customers can scan a QR code at each table to view menus.

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Remembering Terence Conran: “No one has done more to create modern Britain”

Design Week

Sir Terence Conran, one of the biggest influences on the British design scene of the past half-century, has died at the age of 88. Conran’s indelible stamp can be seen across the UK, from his brightly-coloured Habitat products to London’s expansive Design Museum, which he conceived and founded. Peter Mandelson, chairman of the museum’s board of trustees, calls Conran “one of the most iconic figures of post-war Britain”: “He leaves a treasure trove of household

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Staying Ahead of UFLPA Enforcement: Best Practices for Retail Supply Chains

Speaker: Ethan Woolley, Director at Kharon

This webinar will explore how companies can proactively address compliance risks–rather than reactively responding to–UFLPA enforcement actions. Ethan Woolley will provide insights into the latest CBP enforcement trends, entity list updates, and industries under increased scrutiny, with a look at potential shifts under the Trump administration. Ethan will also explore how predictive data and strategic due diligence can help organizations stay ahead of regulatory challenges and strengthen complia

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Sebastian Conran: “What I got from my father is there has to be a big idea”

Design Week

I was six when my father gave me my first work bench. And I can remember for my 21st birthday, he gave me £500 to spend on tools at Buck & Ryan tool shop on Tottenham Court Road. I still have those tools. One of the things was an engraver, and I engraved all the spanners, and sometimes I find a spanner that is now 44 years old. He didn’t take me to football matches, but he took me to factories — to actually see the factory being built and the factory building stuff.

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6 tax tips to help designers starting out in self-employment

Design Week

It may not be the most glamourous part of being a self-employed or freelance designer, but tax is an ever-present part of the job. The UK government has been planning a digital reform for the tax return process since 2015 and back in July , it announced the timeline for the next phase of roll out. Changes to the tax system can feel daunting, especially for those who have just started out as self-employed.

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Museums Association’s visual update balances heritage and activism

Design Week

Studio Output has created a new visual identity for Museums Association (MA) which seeks to evolve the campaigning members organisation. The London-based studio’s work also includes a new digital platform for the cultural organisation as well as an update to its editorial branch, Museums Journal. “Not part of the modern landscape” [link].

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PriestmanGoode unveils designs for self-driving mass transit vehicle

Design Week

Transport design consultancy PriestmanGoode has revealed the designs for a high-capacity autonomous vehicle called Dromos. [link]. It is a collaboration with engineering company Dromos Technologies, which is based in Munich, Germany. The company develops autonomous network transit systems for urban areas and bills itself as a “revolutionary” solution to the high cost, space and time-related problems of traditional public transport.

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Future-Proofing Enterprise Commerce: Why Extensibility Wins with Shopify

Speaker: Benjamin Woll, Tiffany Spizzo, and Jaime Santos Alcón

Enterprise commerce is evolving fast, and brands relying on rigid, one-size-fits-all solutions risk losing agility. But modernization doesn’t have to mean disruption. In this webinar, we’ll explore how an extensible, modular approach empowers brands to integrate new capabilities, enhance performance, and scale efficiently—all while leveraging Shopify’s strengths.

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Revolutionary car tyre named as James Dyson Award UK winner 2020

Design Week

A product designed to reduce the amount of microplastic air pollution caused by car tyres has won the 2020 UK James Dyson Award. The Tyre Collective – Siobhan Anderson, Hanson Cheng, M Deepak Mallaya, and Hugo Richardson – are students on the innovation design masters programme run jointly by Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art.

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Revolutionary car tyre named as James Dyson Award UK winner 2020

Design Week

A product designed to reduce the amount of microplastic air pollution caused by car tyres has won the 2020 UK James Dyson Award. The Tyre Collective – Siobhan Anderson, Hanson Cheng, M Deepak Mallaya, and Hugo Richardson – are students on the innovation design masters programme run jointly by Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art.

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“It’s not a fluffy bubble full of concepts”: Inside Ford’s Innovation Lab

Design Week

“We have to have one foot in the company, and one foot out,” says Usha Raghavachari. “But then we also have to make sure that both of those feet are able to stand up and move us forward.” Raghavachari is director of Ford’s London innovation lab, D-Ford. It’s a relatively new outfit for the automotive giant, having only been established last October.

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The design world comes together to celebrate the life and work of Sir Terence Conran

Design Week

Designer, restaurateur and business mogul Sir Terence Conran passed away over the weekend at the age of 88. He leaves behind him a lengthy career in design which is credited with shaping much of home life in the latter part of the 20 th century. Conran touched the lives of designers in the UK and beyond, both directly and indirectly. His legacies include interiors store Habitat, the eponymous Conran Shop and London’s Design Museum.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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What does a safe return to the office look like?

Edge

“It’s got to be a nimble mindset…. things will continue to change”. Edge Director, Michael Fern. In the Telegraph on 1 September, we saw a virologist and a doctor talking about what precautions they are taking and what they think we should do in returning to the office. Their comments echoed points in a piece in the FT, ‘Is it safe to go back to the office’, published on 3 August, which highlighted the importance of good ventilation systems, the potential dangers of hot-desking, the preference o

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Samsung’s design drive to “make new technology relevant”

Design Week

When the idea of the foldable touch screen phone was first mooted several years ago, it conjured nostalgic images of mid-noughties flip phones but somehow with the functionality of a smart phone. Then in September 2019, Korean technology giant Samsung released the “worlds’ first” foldable smartphone. Hinging at the centre of the screen it was in reality a big departure from the flip phones of old.

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