Design News Briefs

Mayor Mamdani just hired a bunch of ‘grocery store nerds’ to design NYC’s city-owned markets. A consortium of designers, branding professionals, and grocery experts have been named to design a visual identity for New York City’s municipal grocery stores. Their goal? To make something that looks authentically New York. New York City’s Economic Development Corp. (NYCEDC) said Tuesday it had selected four firms— Gander , Librarie , Noble Signs , and Seven Roots —to brand the city’s five forthcoming grocery stores, one for each borough. Gander, the strategic branding firm behind visual identities for brands like the squeeze-bottle olive oil.

This adorable phone is designed to get kids off screens and into the world. Sam Terris spent his childhood roaming the woods around Walden Pond. Growing up in Concord, Massachusetts, he and his friends would spend hours outdoors, away from their parents. “We were really bored kids, so we had to invent games and activities to keep ourselves stimulated,” he says. “I think that was a really important part of development in my generation.” Terris, a serial entrepreneur who cofounded the plant-based nugget brand Nuggs, recently had a baby. He’s spent much of the last few years trying to figure.