Articles

  • It's all, yellow!
    Design News • 26 Oct 11
    In a first for the African continent, Cape Town has been named the World Design Capital 2014. >
  • Ways of the waves
    Design News • 25 Oct 11
    Colour, curves, waves and total joy. Brazilian designer Tom Veiga's bright designs are inspired by the ocean and the vibrancy of his home country. >
  • Dying alone
    Design News • 25 Oct 11
    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. >
  • J.W. Johnson Photography www.jwjimaging.com.
    Yield the signs
    Design News • 25 Oct 11
    Discarded road traffic signs are given a second life by designer Boris Bally who turns it into bold and interesting furniture pieces. >
  • Photo: Feats Per Minute.
    Musical feats
    Design News • 24 Oct 11
    Spinning right round: Feats Per Minute have developed a prototype bicycle that has a record player on the back wheel. Long live vinyl! >
  • Visual variety for Jamie Oliver
    Design News • 24 Oct 11
    Pearlfisher designed the packaging for Jamie Oliver's ever-expanding range of food and lifestyle products. >
  • Etchings
    Design News • 23 Oct 11
    Tom Dixon's Etch candleholder casts a variety of gorgeously intricate shadows. >
  • Photo:Les Arts Décoratifs / Luc Boegly.
    Curiosity
    Design News • 23 Oct 11
    Maarten Baas’s The Curiosities of a Designer exhibition in Paris looks to the surreal and ways of story telling in design. >
  • Kitchen excellence
    Design News • 22 Oct 11
    Patricia Urquiola designed the interiors for luxury kitchen brand Scholtès's new flagship space in London. >
  • Well protected
    Design News • 22 Oct 11
    Talk about protecting your assets, the Lady Killer Vol 1 is a forceful little robot that works to protect your rings. >
  • Well strung
    Design News • 21 Oct 11
    Traditional net-weaving techniques, as used by local fishermen in India, are used to create large-scale string sculptures. >
  • Pieces of mind
    Design News • 20 Oct 11
    Ji Lee's Pieces of Mind project uses thousands of little Buddha statues to remind people to live in the moment and get a bit of peace of mind. >
  • Means to an end
    Design News • 20 Oct 11
    Photographer Patricia Driscoll's A Means to an End documents the abattoir as both a space of organisation and trauma. >
  • Kleurentaart. Photo: Peggy Janssen.
    Colour with veggies
    Design News • 19 Oct 11
    "Kleurentaart" is a cake made with vegetables to explore the possibilities of using food and colour in a variety of ways. >
  • Graphic design now
    Design News • 19 Oct 11
    Graphic Design: Now in Production is one of the largest graphic design exhibitions of recent years. Curator Andrew Blauvelt tells more. >
  • Earth building
    Design News • 19 Oct 11
    A single-storey house in Japan is built with bricks made using the local soil and magnesium oxide. It explores the use of regional building solutions. >
  • Story telling
    Design News • 18 Oct 11
    Story Time is a time piece that tells a sequence of events, rather than the time. >
  • Wining and dining
    Design News • 18 Oct 11
    The La Cave a Vin 9 wine bar in Paris is a modern, intimate space that rethinks the way wine bars are enjoyed. >
  • Floating orchestra
    Design News • 18 Oct 11
    The gravity-defying Floating Orchestra is a different kind of musical experience with the user in the role of a supernatural conductor. >
  • Knitting with bacteria
    Design News • 17 Oct 11
    The Textured Self by Sonja Bäumel uses bacteria to demonstrate how different forms of life work together to make the human body function. >
  • New rules of work
    Design News • 17 Oct 11
    Employees pay attention: The New Rules of Work are that decaf has been criminalised... and other workplace truths and absurdities. >
  • Moving craft
    Design News • 16 Oct 11
    BarberOsgerby's "Ascent" collection of work at the Frieze Art Fair in London is inspired by the duo's interest in moving craft. >
  • Save the post office
    Design News • 15 Oct 11
    Tucker Nichols has some clever ideas for tag lines that might endear people to snail mail and the post office again. >
  • Sensory dining
    Design News • 14 Oct 11
    Secret Sensory Suppers take the dining experience to a new ritualistic level, exploring the relationship between food, sight, scent and sound. >
  • Bouroullec retrospective
    Design News • 14 Oct 11
    Bivouac is the first major retrospective of the work of the Bouroullec Brothers at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. >
  • Usuals collection
    Design News • 14 Oct 11
    Usuals is a range of domestic products by Van Eijk and Van der Lubbe that looks to simplicity and functionality. >
  • 10 Years of Hat-trick
    Design News • 14 Oct 11
    In Brief is a small book, with lots of pages, celebrating Hat-trick's work of the past 10 years. >
  • Design and urbanisation exhibition
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    Design with the Other 90%: Cities looks at how design can help to manage the complex issues arising from rapid urbanisation in the global south. >
  • Climate change and performance art
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    GIPCA's Hot Water Festival considers the conversation on climate change that needs to happen between scientists and performing artists. >
  • Birds of a feather
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    Diamond magnate Laurence Graff has marked the maturation of the Delaire Graff Estate with an art installation of birds. >

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