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Rolls-Royce Motor Cars announced five Black Badge Cullinan Private Commissions featuring interior veneer and leather surfaces hand-painted by multidisciplinary artist Cyril Kongo. The collaboration brings Kongo's 'Kongoverse' artistic universe into the motor cars.
Almora Botanica's official company page reports its UAE debut with Faces Beauty Middle East and its Ho Chi Minh City launch with HAL de Beaute, describing both as partnerships connected to launch events.
FC Barcelona’s 2026/27 kits use distinct typefaces and water-based, breathable name-and-number transfers; the article identifies Stahls as the partner providing heat-printing technology, equipment, manufacturing capabilities, and expertise.
Faces announced a finance referral programme alongside its partnership with Payl8r, a buy-now-pay-later provider, to expand access to flexible finance options for practitioners.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars collaborated with multidisciplinary artist Cyril Kongo on five Black Badge Cullinan Private Commissions featuring hand-painted veneer and leather surfaces.
Navy Athletics will host the 2026 Veterans Classic, with both games televised by CBS Sports Network under the event's continuing broadcast partnership. Navy will play Penn, while South Florida faces Saint Joseph's.
GUBI House Paris was shaped through collaboration with external partners including File Under Pop, Agape, Galerie Allen, ONE A, Reform Copenhagen, Jean Nouvel and Nordic Knots, whose surfaces, fixtures, art, lighting, kitchen and textiles contributed to the interior.
Holcim and German startup Magment are jointly developing magnetizable concrete for road surfaces that enables wireless induction charging of electric vehicles in motion. The technology is being tested by researchers at Purdue University.
Shopify announced the Universal Commerce Protocol, described as an open standard co-developed with Google to support native commerce across Google surfaces, AI Mode and Gemini, alongside other agentic-commerce integrations.
Lufthansa Technik and Surventis are testing a next-generation riblet film material on a Lufthansa City Airlines Airbus A319 to assess applications for aircraft wings and tail surfaces.
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