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We open up the new Google Pixel Fold and find out about the future of flexible screens

Google’s Claude Zellweger offers insights into the design approach behind the new Google Pixel Fold, as we report on life with the company’s first foldable

The new Google Pixel Fold is the tech giant’s first foray into foldables

The announcement of Google’s first foldable should shake up the market for these esoteric mobile devices: how does it compare to the competition?

By Jonathan Bell Published 10 May 23
Google Pixel 7a, the company’s newest mass-market model, joins an expanded Pixel eco-system

Slimmed down and slightly shrunken, the Google Pixel 7a still retains the core talents of the seventh edition of Google’s powerful phone series

By Jonathan Bell Published 10 May 23
Google Design Studio celebrates the relationship between water and technology

At Milan Design Week 2023, ‘Google Shaped By Water’ is an immersive and intimate sensorial installation by Lachlan Turczan that puts water, light and human beings in resonance

By Cristina Kiran Piotti Published 18 April 23
Next stop: are smart homes making us stupid?

By Elly Parsons Last updated 2 November 22
Google and Harman Kardon’s Citation 300 speaker is unfussy, powerful and convenient

By Jonathan Bell Last updated 2 November 22
Google unveils its third suite of products with a focus on digital wellness

By Sujata Burman Last updated 1 November 22

Thomas Heatherwick reading wallpaper magazine

Game-Changers: we pick our top 20 creative world-rockers

In 20 remarkable years we have come across, written about, examined and exhumed a lot of remarkable people. On the following profiles are 20 of them. This, though, is not a simple ranking of power and influence. These are stories that resonate, with which we find common purpose and cause. Here are people who have sometimes stuck bloody-mindedly to a course, sometimes pivoted, re-examined and pushed in new directions, who have defied expectations and even open derision. They have shown courage under fire and grace under pressure. They have transformed – from girl group popette to one of the fashion industry's smartest operators, for instance – and, over the last 20 years, have had a transformative influence in their field. Here are architects who build with a sense of the immaterial, artists who want to talk to everyone, experimentalists and food engineers, fashion designers who defy fashion and bob and weave like prize fighters, tech titans who have changed the way we do almost everything. One reinvented the hotel industry, another presents it with an existential threat. There is also a man who wants to save the world – or take us all to Mars if that doesn't work out. Either way, we'll be along for the ride.

The new colourful offices of Google in Palo Alto

CAW Architects designs colourful Google office near Palo Alto

This colourful Google office designed by California-based CAW Architects is a bold, playful and nature-filled new home for the tech giant’s family in Mountain View, CA

We open up the new Google Pixel Fold and find out about the future of flexible screens

The new Google Pixel Fold is the tech giant’s first foray into foldables

Google Pixel 7a, the company’s newest mass-market model, joins an expanded Pixel eco-system

Google Design Studio celebrates the relationship between water and technology

Next stop: are smart homes making us stupid?

Google and Harman Kardon’s Citation 300 speaker is unfussy, powerful and convenient

Google unveils its third suite of products with a focus on digital wellness

Google’s doodle tribute to graphic designer Saul Bass

Dataspace: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Google invent a virtual, curatorial filofax

Google’s latest AI experiment reveals hidden colour connections in art

Game-Changers: we pick our top 20 creative world-rockers

Serious stats: tech titan Larry Page has gone from coding geek to Google chief

Step inside a song with Sonos and Google Assistant in London

Go-go gadget: we inspect Google’s home connectivity kit

Can digital tools support staying at home?

From functional to fantastical, a new exhibition traces California’s techno-utopia

Letter from Silicon Valley: inside the finest tech workspaces

Need-to-know technology news from Salone del Mobile 2018

The best design is about creating a seamless experience, says Samsung’s design chief

Google's life-enhancing gadget suite brings a new edge to your world

CAW Architects designs colourful Google office near Palo Alto

How Waymo's autonomous cars are driven by design

London’s Hayward Gallery celebrates 50th birthday

Google brings smart-home automation to New York’s Selene residences

Sans serif: Google unveils new logo

The new Google Nest Hub is an alarm clock on steroids

Google gets physical with first New York store

Google, Byredo and Loewe activate Selfridges’ abandoned hotel in an immersive tech takeover

A Google installation in Milan lets you measure which interiors are good for your health

Designart Tokyo transforms the city into a living, multi-sensory museum