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Creative Work • 4 Jan 14

Spanish designer Jaime Hayón reflects on the past ten years’ worth of work in his retrospective exhibition Funtastico. >
Emerging Creative Q&A: Woltemade

Creative Work • 2 Jan 14

The Emerging Creatives programme provides up-and-coming designers with a wonderful launch pad. We chat to Woltemade to find out what they have been up to. >
Focus On: Shaping our spaces and cities

Focus On • 1 Jan 14

Architects design the habitats we dwell in. We feature four thought-provoking talks on approaches to the challenges our times present to the built environment. >
Through the looking glass

Creative Work • 30 Dec 13

Tokujin Yoshioka's PRISM mirror collection for Glas Italia creates a mysterious presence through its dazzling refraction of light. >
Winning BIG

Creative Work • 29 Dec 13

Here is a look at Danish architect Bjarke Ingels's winning proposal for the Axel Springer new media campus in Berlin, Germany. >
Focus On: Where virtual and real worlds meet

Focus On • 28 Dec 13

In an ever-increasing digital world, many designers explore the convergence of virtual and physical realities. Here are four who look towards the future. >
Ho Ho Ho!

Creative Work • 25 Dec 13

A very merry Christmas from Paula Scher and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. >
Clay play

Interviews • 24 Dec 13

Cape Town-based stylist Alexia Klompje launched Klomp Ceramics earlier this year. She tells us about Klomp Collection II that celebrates the season. >
Modelled by hand

Creative Work • 22 Dec 13

Dutch artist-designer Maarten Baas unveils four new Clay pieces for luxury menswear brand, Berluti. >
Binary numbers

Creative Work • 21 Dec 13

Designer Eddie Opara creates a striking illustration, which expresses a digital concept in analogue form, for the December 2013 issue of "Wired" magazine. >
Kunlé Adeyemi: We are living in interesting times in Africa

Interviews • Duration: 00:05:54 • 20 Dec 13

In an interview at the 2013 AZA Architecture Conference, Kunlé Adeyemi tell us about his Makoko Floating School. >
Cardboard marketplace

Creative Work • 19 Dec 13

Shigeru Ban has created a temporary, mobile pavilion in his signature material, cardboard, for the Abu Dhabi Art Festival. >
Artfully plated

Creative Work • 19 Dec 13

The work of Walter Battiss, South Africa’s foremost abstract painter, has found a new expression on ceramics by Mervyn Gers who tells us about the project. >
Luyanda Mpahlwa: We need to increase our level of appreciation for design

Interviews • Duration: 00:05:07 • 18 Dec 13

In this interview at the 2013 AZA Architecture Conference, Luyanda Mpahlwa tells us what the Design Indaba 10 x 10 Low-Cost Housing Project taught him. >
Christmas tree, O Christmas tree

Creative Work • 17 Dec 13

Dutch conceptual design studio Droog has unveiled an enormous holographic Christmas tree in the entrance hall of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. >
Wired for sound

Creative Work • 17 Dec 13

Sonolith, a new audio system by a South African design trio, breaks all the stereo types. >
Stylish timekeeping

Creative Work • 17 Dec 13

Jaime Hayón's collection of Orolog wristwatches combine classical elements with modern details. >
Music from the heart

Creative Work • 16 Dec 13

Harry Pearce has designed a new visual identity for the Crouch End Festival Chorus in North London. >
Memorising animals

Creative Work • 16 Dec 13

The quirky characters from Christoph Niemann's highly-acclaimed digital Petting Zoo app now make their debut in a tactile, analogue memory game. >
Spreading the word

Creative Work • 14 Dec 13

Michael Bierut has redesigned the website for the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine to suit the needs of a 21st century congregation. >
Juke Box beats

Creative Work • 14 Dec 13

Yuri Suzuki's latest installation allows visitors of Tate Britain to capture their impressions of the art in musical form. >
Heinrich Wolff: Great architecture sets up great situations

Interviews • Duration: 00:05:39 • 12 Dec 13

In an interview at the 2013 AZA Architecture Conference, South African architect Heinrich Wolff speaks about transforming the Blue Shed at the V&A Waterfront. >
Made beyond borders

Interviews • 12 Dec 13

For her PhD research London-based designer Sarah Rhodes wanted to explore the nature of collaborative making between designers and craft producers. >
Glass acts

Creative Work • 12 Dec 13

New Italian design company Purho teams up with the ever-fabulous Karim Rashid for a launch collection of contemporary glassware. >

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