Lise Lefebvre, who has just completed her Masters at Design Academy Eindhoven, has sent us images of her graduation project. Called The Aesthetics of Domestic Sound, it explores how the experience of ...

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The back room of a packed dive bar screams to life as the new stars of alt-pop arrive. Tonight, Beat Kitchen is a portal: San Diego transplanted into Chicago’s soul. almost monday—alt-pop, ...

Sound Aesthetics has designed a modular functional artwork-system that can be configured into a premium wireless audio-system and a noise-damping system. The product responds to two key insights: ...

According to Samsung, the Music Studio line of speakers, debuting at CES 2026, draw inspiration from the “timeless dot ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House.

Which words do we find beautiful? And do beautifully sounding words stick better in memory? A new study led by linguist Theresa Matzinger from the University of Vienna suggests that the phonemic ...