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Since its launch last year, Adobe Spark has been an alternative, mobile-friendly solution to using Adobe’s powerful editing and creation software for free — without resorting to piracy. While Spark remains free to use, today Adobe is adding a new paid feature to help small businesses create branded media content.

The feature, called Branded Stories, lets you make graphics, web pages, and video stories. You can set one consistent template or theme to be present across every piece of media. Adobe lets you easily lets you change a font or color throughout all of your creations and templates at once, while notifying you of how many places are being changed. Adobe Spark only offers a small selection of fonts, like Calluna, Raleway, and the…

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Since its launch last year, Adobe Spark has been an alternative, mobile-friendly solution to using Adobe’s powerful editing and creation software for free — without resorting to piracy. While Spark remains free to use, today Adobe is adding a new paid feature to help small businesses create branded media content.

The feature, called Branded Stories, lets you make graphics, web pages, and video stories. You can set one consistent template or theme to be present across every piece of media. Adobe lets you easily lets you change a font or color throughout all of your creations and templates at once, while notifying you of how many places are being changed. Adobe Spark only offers a small selection of fonts, like Calluna, Raleway, and the…

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Design is important with any product, but with wallets design is almost everything. It determines the aesthetics, usability, and comfort of the thing in question, and if you get all those things right, it’s really hard to make a bad wallet. Case in point: this £59 ($80) Compact Coin wallet from a small English company named Nodus. Its name is a little misleading, though, as it can only fit a few coins and its greatest usefulness is for someone like me, richer on contactless cards than nickel-based legal tender.

Like the Waterfield Finn Access Wallet that I reviewed a couple of months ago, the Compact Coin has RFID shielding, which is simply a barrier for wireless transmission that helps me keep one set of payment cards insulated on the…

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Design is important with any product, but with wallets design is almost everything. It determines the aesthetics, usability, and comfort of the thing in question, and if you get all those things right, it’s really hard to make a bad wallet. Case in point: this £59 ($80) Compact Coin wallet from a small English company named Nodus. Its name is a little misleading, though, as it can only fit a few coins and its greatest usefulness is for someone like me, richer on contactless cards than nickel-based legal tender.

Like the Waterfield Finn Access Wallet that I reviewed a couple of months ago, the Compact Coin has RFID shielding, which is simply a barrier for wireless transmission that helps me keep one set of payment cards insulated on the…

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The Queens Museum’s Never Built New York is a fascinating look at all the wild ideas on the city’s cutting room floor

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The Queens Museum’s Never Built New York is a fascinating look at all the wild ideas on the city’s cutting room floor

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It’s been a big week for phones with skinny bezels. The iPhone X was finally revealed, of course, featuring a design where almost the entire front of the phone is taken up by the screen. And one day earlier, Xiaomi announced the Mi Mix 2, its followup to the phone that was the first to put this kind of design in the spotlight last year.

I’ve been wondering, though. If this is the logical endpoint of phone design — where almost all you can see is the screen — how are companies and designers going to be able to differentiate their products in the future? How will they stand out?

Following the Mi Mix 2 launch event in Beijing this week, I put this question to legendary industrial designer and architect Philippe Starck, who worked with…

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It’s been a big week for phones with skinny bezels. The iPhone X was finally revealed, of course, featuring a design where almost the entire front of the phone is taken up by the screen. And one day earlier, Xiaomi announced the Mi Mix 2, its followup to the phone that was the first to put this kind of design in the spotlight last year.

I’ve been wondering, though. If this is the logical endpoint of phone design — where almost all you can see is the screen — how are companies and designers going to be able to differentiate their products in the future? How will they stand out?

Following the Mi Mix 2 launch event in Beijing this week, I put this question to legendary industrial designer and architect Philippe Starck, who worked with…

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In one of the first moments of Absolver, someone hands you a mask. The game — a deep online fighter available now on PC and PS4 — uses this to welcome you into its strange, mysterious world. The mask is a mark. It tells the world you are a prospect, one of many up-and-coming fighters, learning the intricate ways of combat as a way to rise through the ranks and explore the realm of a fallen, but not quite forgotten empire. The mask is a symbol of strength, but it also just looks cool.

Much of the appeal of Absolver is in its almost dauntingly complex fighting mechanics, which let you customize your character into a combatant that best suits your style of play. The idea is that, in the solemn online realm of Adal, each fighter can be…

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In one of the first moments of Absolver, someone hands you a mask. The game — a deep online fighter available now on PC and PS4 — uses this to welcome you into its strange, mysterious world. The mask is a mark. It tells the world you are a prospect, one of many up-and-coming fighters, learning the intricate ways of combat as a way to rise through the ranks and explore the realm of a fallen, but not quite forgotten empire. The mask is a symbol of strength, but it also just looks cool.

Much of the appeal of Absolver is in its almost dauntingly complex fighting mechanics, which let you customize your character into a combatant that best suits your style of play. The idea is that, in the solemn online realm of Adal, each fighter can be…

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