Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Whether stamped on the vinyl floor of a 1950s diner, tessellating down a Victorian hallway, or stencilled atop ...

From the Palace of Versailles to the sticky floors of a retro diner, checkerboard is a print with an appeal that reaches far and wide. While it’s been a favorite tiling style for centuries now, with ...

You've been familiar with a checkerboard, right? The classic game that you played as a kid. Well, this nostalgic design is also top on the home décor front in 2024. And for good reason. Striking and ...

Check mate: the reinvention of checkerboard design on facebook (opens in a new window) Check mate: the reinvention of checkerboard design on linkedin (opens in a new window) ...

Checkerboard first caught my eye back in March, right at the start of work-from-home orders, while I was scrolling through the sales section of Jungmaven, the California-based hemp-clothing brand.

The Croatian national team has become a fixture at recent World Cups, having qualified for six of the last seven tournaments, including Qatar 2022. They were also the fairytale story of the last World ...

A new study from researchers at the University of York has found that designing solar cells with checkerboard lines could increase their ability to absorb light by 125% and could lead to a wider use ...

A U.K.-Portuguese research group is proposing a new solar cell design based on diffraction gratings – optical components that split and diffract light into several beams. They claim this could lead to ...