Enzo Mari dies aged 88
Italian designer Enzo Mari has passed away in Milan at age 88. He died on October 19 at San Raffaele Hospital, where he was hospitalized. Only a few days ago […]
imm Cologne takes the lead with a new model
Hosted at the start of the year, imm cologne is an important date on the interior design calendar. However, for 2021, this very much anticipated appointment has been put into […]
Cultural Calendar
Current
Quick Tiny Shows #06: PN1
An online exhibition merging young Nordic design and contemporary Argentine crafts
Past
Driving The Human
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
Past
DUBAI DESIGN WEEK 2020
Held under the dedicated patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairperson of Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (DCAA), Dubai Design Week is the region’s […]
Current
Our glacial perspectives
Olafur Eliasson’s new public artwork at the Hochjochferner glacier in South Tyrol
Past
(IM)POSSIBLE BODIES
(Im)possible Bodies is a digital voyage of discovery into the world of cyborgs: fusions between humans and machines. Prosthetics, implants, smart devices from hearing aids to phones and watches, make […]
Past
MOVIMENTO x Dao Archviz
Dutch Design Week 2020
Long Reads
Spatial Graphic Design
The new Studio Thonik
Design agency thonik has reinvented itself. The development of a studio on the Wibautstraat in Amsterdam marks thonik’s first foray into three-dimensional design. The building is an eye catcher, manifesto, […]
Guillaume Désanges on art and racism in France
Guillaume Désanges is an independent curator and notably in charge of La Verrière, the exhibition space for contemporary art attached to Fondation d'entreprise Hermès in Brussels.
Guillaume has a reputation for putting on complex and difficult exhibitions packed with meaning and signification. In 2019 he started a series of cycles at the exhibition space, each one […]
VIRGIL ABLOH – Pinking Virgil: The B-side
Crass and commercial or millenial and revolutionizing?
Some call him crass and commercial, others see him more as the millennial Karl Lagerfeld, but whatever your viewpoint, Virgil Abloh has managed to revolutionize streetwear borrowing tactics and an […]
Research & Realities
Printing Microalgae
How sustainable is the colour dye in your top? Where did it come from and how long will its hue last in the wash before inevitably fading? We pick out colours for their shades and aesthetics, but it seems rare that we choose colours based on their pigment origins.
TotoMoxtle
Corn is one of the top three most-grown plants in the world, however its main purpose is not to supply food for people but to be used to make biofuels, […]
This is Copper
There is a problem within sustainable fuel industries whereby the main two factors that tend to effect change within them is either economic incentive or public perception. The difficulty is […]
Productivity
Woods by Fantoni and Metrica
From the partnership between Fantoni and Metrica comes Woods, an innovative, contemporary and versatile design.
Wireflow for Vibia
At La Parisienne Assurances offices in Paris, Studio Razavi Architects devised a playful, adaptive design to meet the versatile needs of the customer.
Knoll and Antenna Design
Knoll’s Antenna Workspaces, designed by Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa, is a composition of floating planes and refined details. Masamichi studied at Cranbrook, the cradle of 20th century modernism, which […]
Claesson Koivisto Rune at Faciem, Tokyo
Presented during the Designart Festival in Tokyo 2017, the exhibition Faciem – In search of the essence of the grid, saw Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune select and interpret what […]