Christopher Lord
Blurred lines
Workplace furniture giant MillerKnoll is increasing its focus on employees' home offices. Is this a sign of things to come for the future of office design?
The Opener
Speaking in tongues, secretly coded coins, spruiking Seoul and why learning a dialect can help you stay in the black.
Stepping up
From his new office at Nike’s HQ, the design chief of the world’s leading sports brand reveals its plans for the future of products that bear the famous swoosh.
Never stop learning
The folk who are perfecting new skills, from surfing to ceramics, no matter their age – and helping others to do so too.
Smart money
From lab-grown diamonds to luxury handbag rentals, fermented skincare and textiles made from plants and paper pulp, these are the hottest fashion and beauty trends for savvy retail investors to look into right now.
Older and wiser
Want to start a business in your fifties? A ‘wisdom school’ in Mexico will give you faith.
Meeting in the middle
Long the first stop for migrants coming into the US, Miami is now bursting at the seams with New Yorkers heading south for the city’s sunshine, music and burgeoning technology scene.
The Opener
Filming toilets in Japan, an error of biblical proportions and a potato-based conflict.
Electric valley
As the new base for the electric-vehicle industry, America’s fastest-growing city is revving its engines.
Pivot to the Pacific: How the US military is training in the jungles of Hawaii to prepare for war with China
More than 80 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor, the surprise military strike still looms large in Hawaii’s memory. Now the US is working to shore up its dominance in the Pacific.
