Lofree Lipstick mechanical keyboard turns your desk into a curated beauty-inspired setup, blending fashion and function in one compact 75% layout. Each keycap is styled in a classic lipstick shade, creating a cosmetic-like color palette that feels more like a makeup collection than a gadget. The frosted transparent shell lets these colors shine through, adding a soft, jewelry-display effect to your workspace.
The design inspiration for this project stems from the image of a flower. The most beautiful parts of a flowerits bud and its petalsevoke softness, splendor, and refined aesthetics. Yet behind that beauty lies the slender stem, quietly bearing the entire weight of the structure.
Today's extremist styles are more diverse and more subtle. Beyond T-shirts that advertise blatant racism, polo shirts with coded symbols create a shared in-group identity and signal support of violence to other believers. Tradwife-style prairie dresses and beauty regimens promote conservative visions of family. Clothing is a powerful tool to spread fascist ideas to promote authoritarianism and recruit new members to this cause.
Aesthetics are all around us, from dorm room inspirations and home decor to water bottles and popular aesthetics like cottagecore, coquette, and clean girl. In the age of social media and digital marketing, the aesthetic experience is literally in our devices, from our social media feeds to our lock screens to brands' webpages. There is even a comprehensive list of aesthetics!
'Successive generations are defined by sets of values, beliefs and behaviours that also manifest visually - most notably through their own distinctive colours,' the experts explained in an article for The Conversation. 'Segmenting by generation - boomers, X, Y, Z, Alpha - thus allows us to observe chromatic preferences that are not merely matters of individual taste, but reflections of a collective relationship to time, aspirations and dominant aesthetics.'
You know someone is committed to the shot when they're willing to stand on a chair, hover over a table, or dangle their phone out a window - and that describes Libras to a T. As a social air sign, they'll do whatever it takes to capture fun moments as they unfold, and they'll be especially motivated if they need something for social media.
But their form is mostly irrelevant to their function. In order to signify your tournament as more important than other tournaments, the trophy needs to be more spectacular in some way. So the tendency is to make them either bigger or more garish. They need to look valuable without actually being valuable, or the winners wouldn't want to give it to the next winners.
"If you’ve ever received a legal notice like a Cease and Desist, you know that the 'oh shit' moment doesn’t happen once you actually read the letter; it happens the second you open it and realize a lawyer is mad at you."
Scientists from the American University of Beirut showed 200 people AI-generated pictures of a woman, whose lips had been adjusted in various ways. An analysis of their preferences revealed that the perfect pout features an upper-to-lower lip ratio (U/L) of between 0.618:1 and 1:1. Meanwhile, the most highly rated lips had an upper lip height of 25 percent of hemi-lip width.
Bezos chose Sanchez, a former TV presenter and pilot, suggesting his preference may align with an emerging aesthetic among prominent figures rather than conventional beauty.
The a_77 laptop designed by Braz de Pina showcases a fresh approach that begins with the keyboard, leading to a unique, compact design.
