Design News

Be still my beating heart... or my feelings will show! The Intimacy 2.0 garments turn less or more transparent in response to the wearer's heartbeat. >

Are you a real graphic enthusiast? There is only one way to find out – test your knowledge in a Trivial Pursuit-like graphic design game. >

In a first for the African continent, Cape Town has been named the World Design Capital 2014. >

What happens to the stories and belongings of people that die alone? Agata Niemkiewicz's Remember Me, but ah, Forget My Fate considers this sad situation. >

Spinning right round: Feats Per Minute have developed a prototype bicycle that has a record player on the back wheel. Long live vinyl! >

Tom Dixon's Etch candleholder casts a variety of gorgeously intricate shadows. >

Patricia Urquiola designed the interiors for luxury kitchen brand Scholtès's new flagship space in London. >

Traditional net-weaving techniques, as used by local fishermen in India, are used to create large-scale string sculptures. >

Photographer Patricia Driscoll's A Means to an End documents the abattoir as both a space of organisation and trauma. >

Graphic Design: Now in Production is one of the largest graphic design exhibitions of recent years. Curator Andrew Blauvelt tells more. >

Story Time is a time piece that tells a sequence of events, rather than the time. >