• The blue house
    Constantin and Laurene Boym’s newest miniature celebrates Barack Obama in lieu of the time-honoured tradition of inauguration souvenirs. >
  • Stephen Burks
    Product Designer
    With Readymade Projects Stephen, Burks has been responsible for creative design direction on projects from retail interiors and events to packaging. >
  • Rick Valicenti
    Graphic Designer • Typographer
    Rick Valicenti is founder and design director of Thirst, a communication design firm devoted to art, function and real human presence. >
  • AdamsMorioka
    Graphic Designer
    Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka founded media company AdamsMorioka in Beverly Hills in 1994. >
  • Commonwealth
    Architect • Product Designer
    David Boira and Zoë Coombes are two architecturally trained furniture designers who work together under the studio name Commonwealth, based in New York. >
  • Sound/culture smash
    Paul D Miller – aka DJ Spooky – addresses “the remix” in his new book Sound Unbound. >
  • Not quite Discovery Channel
    The Sex Lives of Animals is the first natural history exhibition in the US to explore non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals. >
  • SVW scholarship and workshop
    New York's first annual SahreVictoreWilker graphic design workshop hosted 40 participants from eight different countries for seven days. >
  • Power art
    Design Indaba alumnus Luba Lukova releases a portfolio of political posters. >
  • Paula Scher does China
    Renowned graphic designer and artist Paula Scher has released a new print of China in her Map series. >
  • 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. >

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