Design News

  • Magical luminosity
    Design News • 28 Dec 12
    Tom Dixon's latest pendant lights take inspiration from the designer's love of molten glass creations. >
  • Reduce and refine
    Design News • 27 Dec 12 • Sponsored Content
    One SodaStream Source could save 550 plastic bottles per household per year. That's enough reason to let the bubbles flow! >
  • Wall of colour
    Design News • 26 Dec 12
    Consumed with colour and exuberance, Adam Levin's exhibition "A Meal of Colour" is encouraging people to investigate their relationship with colour. >
  • Dine in style
    Design News • 24 Dec 12
    With sophistication and style, Jaime Hayón has designed the interior of Le Sergent Recruteur restaurant in Paris. >
  • Splintered wood
    Design News • 22 Dec 12 • Sponsored Content
    Nendo's latest collection of furniture resembles splintered wood in an elegant style. >
  • The loaves and the women
    Design News • 21 Dec 12
    Abbott Miller has designed branding for Hot Bread Kitchen, emphasising the bakery's mission to empower women through the baking of bread. >
  • Spiralling tower
    Design News • 20 Dec 12
    Adding a significant structure to the Phoenix skyline, BIG Architects blend form and function for the "Phoenix Observation Tower". >
  • Coined Underground
    Design News • 20 Dec 12
    In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the London Underground the Royal Mint has struck two new coins, one of them designed by BarberOsgerby. >
  • Tomorrow's sky
    Tomorrow's sky
    Design News • 19 Dec 12
    Mathieu Lehanneur's project "Tomorrow is another day" gives hospital patients a sense of hope through seeing the sky of the future. >
  • Border free
    Design News • 19 Dec 12
    The first exhibition by Design without Borders looks into the effectiveness of using design and creativity to address issues in developing countries. >
  • A new identity
    Design News • 18 Dec 12
    Harry Pearce fuses history and modernity in creating a confident new identity for one of Britain's oldest institutions. >
  • Lively forest
    Design News • 14 Dec 12 • Sponsored Content
    Jason Bruges Studio has designed an installation that engages and interacts playfully with young patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. >
  • Lover, lost
    Design News • 13 Dec 12
    "lost lover" is the title of Faith47's most recent work at Design Miami 2012. >
  • Art for India
    Design News • 12 Dec 12
    India's first-ever biennale, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale starts today and will run for three months, aiming to put Kochi on the world map of culture. >
  • White Swan in white carrara marble. Photo: Tiziano Rossi.
    Swan in black and white
    Design News • 12 Dec 12
    Satyendra Pakhalé’s White Swan and Black Swan marks the first time the designer has worked in marble. >
  • Colour melts
    Design News • 11 Dec 12
    The melting pot of diversity that is South Africa inspires and informs the work of graphic designer Sharp-Lee Mthimkulu. >
  • Andrea. Photo: Véronique Huyghe.
    Collection of things
    Design News • 11 Dec 12
    Mathieu Lehanneur's first retrospective, Choses, can be seen in Belgium until the end of March 2013. >
  • Concrete style
    Design News • 10 Dec 12
    Representing the three different stages of cement, Suzaan Heyn's latest collection reveals the versatility in fashion design. >
  • Pet project
    Design News • 10 Dec 12
    Calling all pet lovers: Kenya Hara's "Architecture for Dogs" project looks at creative ways people can interact with their pets. >
  • Top class
    Design News • 8 Dec 12
    Priestmangoode’s design of the first class cabin for the Brazilian TAM Airlines prioritises comfort and makes it social. >
  • Eye for programming
    Design News • 7 Dec 12
    The Bright Eyes Kit seeks to take the bland and boring out of programming to make it easy, fun and accessible. >
  • Bell of the lion
    Design News • 7 Dec 12
    Faith47's second piece of work at Art Basel 2012 in Miami is titled “let he who tied the bell to the lion take it off”. >
  • Distinctly Different
    Lookbook • 6 Dec 12
    Sir John Hegarty, creative and founder of BBH, will be speaking at Design Indaba Conference 2013. Here are some highlights from his creative portfolio. >
  • A Dutch dream
    Design News • 6 Dec 12
    Revealing an adventurous and modern spirit, the Andaz Hotel designed by Marcel Wanders contrasts modern and historic style. >

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From the Archives

  • Print first
    Q&A • 20 Mar 23
    This 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative is a storyteller at heart. >
  • Japanimation
    Q&A • 20 Mar 23
    Wooden puppets come to life in an action-packed stop-motion film about revenge. >
  • Winning formula
    Design News • 20 Mar 23
    David Chipperfield has been selected as the 2023 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. >
  • Shapeshifter
    Design News • 20 Mar 23
    This New York theatre’s new branding changes for each production. >