• Travelling on trains with kids
    Illustrator Christoph Niemann’s new New York Times blog grabbed attention when he added these illustrations of subway travel with his sons. >
  • Exquisite scales
    Commonwealth is uncovering a new kind of beauty by reapplying architectural rigour to smaller scale cross-disciplinary design. >
  • Gadget: Purpose wanted
    The Chumby, a real geek's toy, is an internet-connected touchscreen device. It's thoroughly open-source and runs widgets on Linux software. >
  • Garden furniture for good
    Environmental design studio Orange 22 in Los Angeles has launched the Botanist Blank Canvas Project, which raises money for charity. >
  • XOXO ebook by Yves Behar
    Yves is for the children
    Los Angeles company, Y Water, is the first in a new category of super drinks engineered to ensure children's healthy growth. >
  • Diminutive disaster
    Constantin Boym talks about what the 20th century taught him about the power of the miniature and memory. >
  • From Talking Heads to singing building
    David Byrne turned architecture into a musical instrument and invited the public to "play the building", in an abandoned New York building. >
  • "Having guts always works out for me"
    Design Indaba reads Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister. >
  • Side profile
    Starchitect Cameron Sinclair has been recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. >
  • From Surface to Parsons
    Laetitia Wolff has announced that she has taken up the position of Director of Strategic Alliances at Parsons and The New School. >
  • Fashion tips for superheroes
    The Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibition explored comic book characters and fashion, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. >
  • Hani Rashid and the sun king
    The LQ chandelier, designed by Hani Rashid, is the first to be launched in the new Zumtobel Lighteriors Avantgarde Collection. >
  • Locomotion, manipulation, conversation
    Father of interaction design, Bill Moggridge talks about creating the technology landscape of the future. >
  • DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid
    Riddimtometry
    Paul D Miller - aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid - has taken remixing, sampling and turntablism from the streets to the white cube. >
  • Electric avenue
    To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumours of the electric car's death have been greatly exaggerated. Fiona Zerbst discovers the Tesla. >
  • Nature V2.01 by Draw Me A Sheep.
    A Kyoto treaty for design
    The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design. >
  • Photo: Fuse Project.
    Sustainable = humanist
    Yves Béhar explains that usefulness and functionality are not the same thing. >
  • Design of the times
    Massimo and Lella Vignelli received a standing ovation at the 2007 Design Indaba for their retrospective presentation. >
  • A Taste For Type
    Tobias Frere-Jones has designed over 500 typefaces for retail publication, custom clients and experimental research. >
  • Stairway to heaven
    The first contemporary flagship store for Longchamp has been designed by Heatherwick Studio. >
  • Don't call me babe
    It may look cute and cuddly, but it's one of the planet's worst poo-llutants. >
  • illustration by Christoph Niemann
    From the archives: Head for humour
    Christoph Niemann's pictures paint a thousand witty words. In this interview, we profile the illustrator's more serious side. >
  • Story teller
    Design brings stories to life. Or so says Yves Béhar, whose own tale is made up of one brand success story after another. >
  • The bigger apple
    The bigger apple
    What happens when you take an African-American designer from New York to Africa for the first time and expect him to work with crafters? >

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