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London’s Hayward Gallery celebrates 50th birthday
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Google brings smart-home automation to New York’s Selene residences
Interior design group Frenchcalifornia looks to Google to unite uncompromising design with smart-home technology at Norman Foster’s 63-storey residential tower in New York
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Sans serif: Google unveils new logo
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The new Google Nest Hub is an alarm clock on steroids
Meet your new, improved and super smart bedtime companion
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Google gets physical with first New York store
Google opens its first retail location in Manhattan's Chelsea neighbourhood. We spoke to Ivy Ross, the company’s vice president of hardware design, UX and research, who served as creative director of the store, to find out more about Google's move into physical retail
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Google, Byredo and Loewe activate Selfridges’ abandoned hotel in an immersive tech takeover
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A Google installation in Milan lets you measure which interiors are good for your health
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Designart Tokyo transforms the city into a living, multi-sensory museum
The third edition of the fair (18-27 October) showcases over 100 exhibitions across the Japanese capital
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‘Meditation chambers' at Google HQ offer a blueprint for office wellbeing
Designed by Office of Things for Google's Bay Area headquarters, the bunker-inspired meditation chambers combine technology, light and sound to create a meditative effect
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Google Bay View Campus by BIG and Heatherwick Studio reimagines workspace
Google has worked with architects BIG and Heatherwick Studio on the new Bay View Campus in Silicon Valley
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Ivy Ross judges Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021
Ivy Ross, the vice president of design for hardware at Google, on the challenges of designing during a pandemic, and her thoughts on our annual Wallpaper* Design Award honours
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Google steers towards a positive future with its latest tech toolkit
Focusing on conscious design and minimal finishes, Made by Google launches its fourth range of hardware
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Google makes its Salone del Mobile debut with installation on technology and everyday life
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The finest Google Doodles of all time
On 20 August 1998, a week before a two-year-old Google become an incorporated company, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were heading to Burning Man festival. To mark themselves ‘out of office’ on their email signatures, they decided to overlay the famous Burning Man stick-figure on the Google logo (which then came with a Yahoo-style exclamation mark, as if it needed to announce itself). The idea lay dormant until 2010, when then-intern Dennis Hwang (who went onto become Google webmaster, amongst other more recent titles) was tasked with decorating the logo for Bastille Day, sparking eight years of marking important moments in history with a graphic, digital ephitaph. What started as an ‘out of office’ scribble has become an artform, celebrating Calder to Kadinsky; Zaha Hadid to Mies van der Rohe.
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Pixel 6 Pro is ‘premium redefined’ says Google’s Ivy Ross
Ivy Ross, Google’s vice president of Design for Hardware Products, on the design decisions behind the new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones
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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.
