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An invitation to visit Apple’s studio is rare, and is withheld even from most employees. Inside the door, a ten-foot-long internal vestibule, in stainless steel, serves as a visual air lock. One’s view is largely restricted to the desk of Harper Alexander, an office manager, who—in a corporate culture ruled by reticence—has an unusually lively Twitter presence. (“Playing counting crows and hootie in the Apple design studio. Everyone in here who loves Euro douchepop just literally died.”)

Do-it-yourselfers will get the most out of their garage by starting with a good cleaning out. Then take measurements and come up with a plan to create storage zones for the items you need.

In an environment of dust sheets and undecorated walls, a bag of Whole Foods nuts, on a shelf, makes a loud claim for attention. But the room’s minimalism derives from nondisclosure more than from dogma. Ive’s aesthetic is not austere: one could think of the work done here as a reticent man’s idea of exuberance, with rapture expressed in the magnetic click of a power adapter. Richard Seymour, a British designer who has known Ive for years, recently referred to his friend’s “emotionally warm modernism.” Clive Grinyer, a friend and former London colleague of Ive’s, said, appreciatively, “He’s always been a bit bling.” Paola Antonelli, the senior curator of design and architecture at MoMA, who has added many Apple products to the museum’s collection, praised an innovation that indicated when a closed laptop was in “sleep” mode: a light glowed on and off twelve times a minute, like a restful person breathing. “Jony knows that I was transfixed,” she said. “They had to abandon it because it kept people awake when it was on the bedside table.” (Apple disputed this explanation.) “It was round and pulsating and it was just amazing.”

I can’t recommend a purchase of this case given its $40 price. On top of that, you’ll have to spend at least another $35 on a UA Connect mount if that’s what you intend to buy this case for. For $75, I’m sure there’s a more cost-effective solution out there. At least it looks like a case that someone who goes to the gym often would use. Verizon’s currently offering it for $29.99, for what it’s worth.

Of all the case companies there are out there, Incipio seems to enjoy partnering with other companies and designers the most. For the UA Protect Verge, Incipio worked together with… you guessed it, Under Armour. Interestingly, this isn’t just a case of Incipio throwing a big Under Armour badge on and calling it a day; the UA Protect Verge actually works in conjunction with the UA Connect mounting system.

Is the Spigen Thin Fit too thick for you? Do you want a more exotic material? Look no further than PITAKA’s MagCase. It’s like the Thin Fit’s more extravagant brother, with its even slimmer design, fancier material, and an integrated magnet for magnetic mounts. It sounds like the perfect case on paper, though it’s not without its flaws.

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As well as offering advanced connectivity, the Range Rover Velar offers a choice of four premium audio systems, each one developed to integrate perfectly with the vehicle’s cabin and deliver exceptional sound quality.

Ms. Prada should be pleased and maybe a little worried. It’s up to the foundation to program these spaces for generations to come.

Bars and restaurants continued to merge through the 1990s and 2000s, and that’s a big reason restaurants, on the whole, got noticeably louder. Bars are raucous, and they present a different dining atmosphere from typical sit-down restaurants. As the bar and dining area began to occupy the same space, their clientele and atmospheres combined, and the result was a lot louder than either one alone. Open-concept restaurants and warehouse-style gourmet food courts have made dining out more casual and communal, but getting rid of the walls, ceilings, and soft goods that once defined luxury have also made them noisier.

He won a national student design competition two years running, once for a white desk phone that had a handset with a long handle, like a lorgnette. He pooled two travel scholarships and, in the summer of 1989, after he had received the highest category of degree, he travelled in the United States. Robert Brunner had recently founded a design consultancy, Lunar, in San Francisco. He wanted to hire Ive moments after meeting him: Ive was “a sweet, enthusiastic guy,” and his portfolio was extraordinary, in part because “he had figured it all out.” Although people may think of industrial design “as the concept and renderings and models and all the creative stuff,” Brunner said, it’s ultimately about “delivering something.” Ive had brought a model of his desk phone, which he took apart to show how the internal components coexisted. The model’s outer casing was the exact thickness that it would be in a finished phone. “You never see that from a student,” Brunner said.

Though the menu at Toast & Tonic offers a variety of culinary cultures and is decidedly international, it seeks to celebrate India’s bio-diversity, working with local producers to ensure that Indian products are championed. From sausages that have been cured and made in-house to smoked meats, mustards, syrups, breads and kimchis, the dishes have been born of free expression, much like the philosophy that the East Village is known to embrace.