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Fidèle à son habitude, le photographe Dylan Schwartz nous emmène dans les airs, au sommet des gratte-ciels, pour nous montrer la beauté captivante ainsi que l’ampleur de villes américaines telles que Los Angeles et New York. Dans ses superbes clichés, les lumières des véhicules et des buildings dessinent des formes oniriques. Une sélection qui donne l’eau à la bouche, que vous pouvez découvrir ci-dessous.

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Politico has joined forces with Morning Consult to launch a new polling partnership. Their polls, which debuted today, will run in Politico’s Playbook and its sites.

The first poll focused on the presidential debate and found (unsurprisingly) that Hillary Clinton won. About half of respondents (49 percent) said Clinton won, compared to just 26 percent for Donald Trump. The poll found that the debates are good for network viewership, as 72 percent of people said they watched the debate.

Debate moderator Lester Holt came away with a mostly favorable review, as 42 percent of people thought Holt was impartial during the debate.

If you’re in the mood for a meaningless power list, Variety has just the thing. Its “New Power of New York” features “a new league of movers and shakers upending the entertainment business in Manhattan and beyond… digitally savvy, entrepreneurial, and unafraid to ruffle feathers.” Sure!

In an effort to make the power list slightly interesting, Variety enlisted famous New Yorkers to author the features. David Remnick wrote about Ben Smith. Lena Dunham took on Leslie Jones. Jared Kushner penned a tribute to Ivanka Trump — ha! How stupid would that be? Breaking: Husband Thinks Wife is Great! No, actually, we’re serious. Kushner really did.

Here’s the rest of the list.

While it’s—for better or worse—known for pumpkin spiced everything, fall is also when some of our favorite ingredients come back in season and the weather cools down enough for us to consider using our ovens again. With that in mind, we have chosen……

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With an acronym that sounds like a college radio station or killer Scrabble word, the new King’s Cross Creative Quarter launched during London Design Festival 2016. Spearheaded by designjunction, which now calls the KXCQ home, at least one tenant has already settled in nicely. Central Saint Martins moved into the Victorian granary and former transit sheds — converted into an impressive campus — in 2011, and the orange door on Granary Square proved to be a portal to a well-curated presentation of graduates from the school’s myriad design departments.

The view from Granary Square

Through the double doors is the Lethaby Gallery, where Brain Waves marks the third installment in a trilogy of exhibitions presented by CSM on the occasion of London Design Festival. Framed broadly in terms of Restless Futures (2014), the Intelligent Optimist (2015) and the current neurological moniker, these exhibitions offer different ways of conceiving of what design is and does. In short, the university looks beyond superficial styling, instead seeing design as a means of making sense of the world.

The projects in Brain Waves are organized into four categories. “Creative Forensics” includes designers who bring the scientific method to bear on the problems of today and tomorrow, where research and data provide the ballast for imaginative solutions. “Empathic Invention” describes projects that focus on communities and collective good, fostering social connection through the products, services, or even conversations. “Haptic Thinking” examines contemporary material culture, technologically enabled and otherwise, with an emphasis on tactility and embodied knowledge. And “Shifting Reality”comprises projects that challenge and reframe our perception and perspective on the world around us.

Here is a selection of the 47 projects in Brain Waves, which is on view at the Lethaby Gallery at Central Saint Martins until October 29, 2016. If you can’t make it to the exhibition, all of the projects can also be viewed in the catalog, which is available online here.

Joao Gil (MA Industrial Design) – Biocomputer: Future of Health Consultation Institute

Zengke Jin (BA Textile Design) – Illusory Kinetics

Srabani Ghosh (BA Ceramic Design) – Assimilation

José Maria Salgado (BA Ceramic Design) – The Ante Plate

Helga Aradottir (BA Textile Design) – Interspinning

Julius Ingemann Breitenstein (BA Product Design) – The Unpaid Intern

Orla Lawn (BA Textile Design) – The Depth of Light

Emily Schofield (BA Graphic Design) – Situationist Typography

Giada Giachino (MA Design Jewellery) – Per Inciso

Di Peng (MA Industrial Design) – Dementia Simulator

Lucie Davis (BA Jewellery Design) – Jewellery Undercover

Elif Gengör (MA Industrial Design) – Mom Too: e-search for infantile colic

Jonathon R.C. Howard (BA Architecture) – The Contemporary Guild of the Knockers Through

Marina Mellado Mendieta (MA Industrial Design) – Neurogastronomy

Katy Shand (MA Material Futures) – Other Us: Solas