Truth is, I’m a little design-challenged. My sister-in-law, Mel, is amazing. She helped pick all the colors for the walls in my home over in Lincoln and is a professional graphic and product designer.

Laptop designs from companies like Dell and Asus are showing clear inspiration by being much easier to upgrade than they used to be. Intel seems to be paying attention, too, going by some new ...

Corner House sits at the end of a Victorian terrace in a quiet ... Clare Dowdy is a London-based freelance design and architecture journalist who has written for titles including Wallpaper*, BBC, ...