Design News

  • Tool the Perpetual Calendar by Tom Dixon.
    Calendar accessories
    Design News • 12 Jan 14
    Tom Dixon looks to sustainable design with his Tool the Perpetual Calendar, which is made from stainless steel and can be reused year after year. >
  • Theory interior design by Nendo.
    Go with the flow
    Design News • 12 Jan 14
    Nendo takes inspiration from city streets and movement patterns for the design of interiors for the retail spaces of fashion label Theory. >
  • Ghost by Martí Guixé for Nanimarquina. Image: Nanimarquina.
    Ghostly apparitions
    Design News • 11 Jan 14 • Sponsored Content
    "Ghost" is Catalonian interior and industrial designer, Martí Guixé's new take on classic Kerman rug design. >
  • Organik luggage collection by Karim Rashid.
    Eccentric travelling
    Design News • 11 Jan 14
    Bright, bold and hypnotic... Karim Rashid's "Organik" collection of luggage is sure to make travellers stand out. >
  • TEN Collection by Fotolia.
    Digital art competition
    Design News • 10 Jan 14
    International stock photo agency, Fotolia launches an international digital art competition as part of their TEN campaign. >
  • Watch Flower by Bjarke Ingels.
    Architecture in bloom
    Design News • 9 Jan 14
    Bjarke Ingels's Watch Flower promenade structure mimics and draws on the natural process of a growing flower. >
  • Nelly Ben Hayoun appointed WeTransfer's first Head of Experiences.
    Cosmic experiences
    Design News • 8 Jan 14
    Experiential designer Nelly Ben Hayoun has been appointed as WeTransfer's first Head of Experiences. >
  • Pichulik Spring/Summer 2014 Collection
    Lookbook • 8 Jan 14
    Pichulik's 2014 Spring/Summer collection celebrates the seaside glamour of the golden age on the French Riviera in the 50s and 60s. >
  • MARBLES interactive installation by Daan Roosegaarde.
    Marbles of light
    Design News • 6 Jan 14
    Daan Roosegaarde's eye-catching MARBLES installation will illuminate the 2014 Route du Nord Light exhibition with bright and bold colours. >
  • Beat Brass lamp by Tom Dixon.
    Brass vessels
    Design News • 6 Jan 14
    Tom Dixon takes inspiration from traditional vessels used to carry water for his latest collection of authentic brass pendant lamps. >
  • Frozen Garden by Marcel Wanders for Bisazza. Image: Bisazza.
    Vertical garden
    Design News • 6 Jan 14
    Dutch designer Marcel Wanders creates an interior garden of ceramic flowers with his wall cladding design, Frozen Garden, for Bisazza’s 2014 collection. >
  • The Hanataba chopsticks by Nendo. Image: Akihiro Yoshida
    Pick-up sticks
    Design News • 5 Jan 14 • Sponsored Content
    Japan-based Nendo redesigns an ancient traditional eating utensil, the chopstick, transforming people’s interaction with this everyday object. >
  • Jaime Hayon's New York is Miami cabinet. Image: Jaime Hayon.
    Fun and fantastical
    Design News • 4 Jan 14
    Spanish designer Jaime Hayón reflects on the past ten years’ worth of work in his retrospective exhibition Funtastico. >
  • T Table by Woltemade. Image: Woltemade
    Emerging Creative Q&A: Woltemade
    Design News • 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. >
  • PRISM mirror by Tokujin Yoshioka. Image: Glas Italia; Tommaso Sartori.
    Through the looking glass
    Design News • 30 Dec 13
    Tokujin Yoshioka's PRISM mirror collection for Glas Italia creates a mysterious presence through its dazzling refraction of light. >
  • The new Axel Springer Campus by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).
    Winning BIG
    Design News • 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. >
  • Graphic work by Lazi Mathebula.
    Emerging Creative catch-up: Lazi Mathebula
    Design News • 26 Dec 13
    2013 Emerging Creative Lazi Mathebula, aka Greiispaces, is one of 50 international illustrators currently exhibiting at .M Contemporary gallery in Australia. >
  • Animated Christmas Card by Paula Scher for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
    Ho Ho Ho!
    Design News • 25 Dec 13
    A very merry Christmas from Paula Scher and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. >
  • Maarten Baas' chaise longe for Berluti. Images: Berluti and Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
    Modelled by hand
    Design News • 22 Dec 13
    Dutch artist-designer Maarten Baas unveils four new Clay pieces for luxury menswear brand, Berluti. >
  • Illustration created by Eddie Opara for Wired that renders the issue number 21.12 in its binary configuration of 1s and 0s.
    Binary numbers
    Design News • 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. >
  • Design Souq cardboard pavilion by Shigeru Ban for the Abu Dhabi Art Festival.
    Cardboard marketplace
    Design News • 19 Dec 13
    Shigeru Ban has created a temporary, mobile pavilion in his signature material, cardboard, for the Abu Dhabi Art Festival. >
  • Walter Battiss artwork on ceramic by Mervyn Gers.
    Artfully plated
    Design News • 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. >
  • Tree of Light by Droog.
    Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
    Design News • 17 Dec 13 • Sponsored Content
    Dutch conceptual design studio Droog has unveiled an enormous holographic Christmas tree in the entrance hall of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. >
  • Sonolith by Joe Paine, Ross Drakes and Richard Jenks. Image by Greg Cox for Southern Guild.
    Wired for sound
    Design News • 17 Dec 13
    Sonolith, a new audio system by a South African design trio, breaks all the stereo types. >

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From the Archives

  • Time flies
    Design News • 1 May 22
    Design Indaba alumnus Neil Harbisson is ready to live Einstein’s theory of relativity with the help of a new wing-shaped sense organ >
  • Skyfall
    Design News • 1 May 22
    A never-ending stream of dominoes extending upwards provides the building blocks of architect Jean-Paul Cassia’s latest brainchild, the Zanzibar Tower >
  • The multipotentialite side of life
    Q&A • 1 May 22
    Design Indaba Emerging Creative Nuraan Khan wants to make beautiful, functional design accessible to everyone >
  • Where science and fiction meet
    Q&A • 1 May 22
    Kuang-Yi Ku, a former dentist turned speculative designer and artist, explores a fictional future where termites and humans live in harmony >