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When good design is how it feels
Tokyo’s Postalco made your favorite notepad. Now it wants to make your favorite shirt.
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When the rebrand doesn’t hit the mark
...Try again! Coconut Bliss is now Cosmic Bliss — with big new plans and a retreat to more familiar packaging.
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How Kvadrat made fabric cool
Talking textiles with CEO Anders Byriel and designer Erwan Bouroullec.
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What will happen to Sweetgreen?
The 2010s’ favorite salad brand has a new look. Can it re-accelerate after a spoiled pandemic year?
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Danny Meyer explains how the dining experience will change
Also: Shopify’s curious consumer brand.
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Hodinkee and the new luxury
“We want to be the nose on the face of the watch industry.”
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Alex Mill creative director Somsack Sikhounmuong on designing clothing for our strange new reality
And: What a week!
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What sticks from Apple’s iPhone 12 event?
Also: A special event for you,
The New Consumer
members.
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Architect Barbara Bestor on how home designs are changing in the era of coronavirus
And: An ode to the Erewhon beverage case.
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Apple’s viral widgets hit, what Nike learned this summer
I don’t think Apple was expecting this.
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Rethinking the Starbucks ‘third place’
Starbucks is betting on a smaller, more efficient ‘Pickup’ concept in big cities. But what else?
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Why Trader Joe’s refuses to sell groceries online
Does that still pass the smell test?
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The online grocery discovery problem
Something important is missing from the online grocery experience. That’s a big opportunity.
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Designing in a crisis
Mythology partners Anthony Sperduti and Fernando Music on how brand and retail design is already changing.
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Pattern’s new brand, Apple’s brightest spot
With Open Spaces, the former Gin Lane team continues its unbundling (or rebundling?) of IKEA.
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What Casper’s IPO filing says about the ‘DTC’ playbook — and about Casper’s future
Can the mattress startup become ‘the world’s most loved and largest sleep company’?
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Inside Sweetgreen’s new-concept restaurant
We paid a lunchtime visit to Sweetgreen’s soft launch. Here’s what it was like.
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Gin Lane’s big pivot: Can a great brand maker run its own great brands?
Plus: An update on the Harry’s deal, and Apple Card’s soft launch.
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Sweetgreen’s new store concept, Netflix’s belly flop
Plus: A new favorite business podcast for summer grilling.
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Understanding Jony Ive’s departure from Apple
Why now, what it means, and what’s next.
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