Design Museum, LondonThis astounding exhibition reveals the obsessive level of genius the great director showed, whether inventing the space age – or restaging the Vietnam war in a London gas works
Heavy III, featuring names such as Gregory Halpern, carries on the publication's conversations between beautiful photography and engaging writing from environmental destruction to feminity.
From Weimar to Ikea … a brilliant biography makes clear the master of modernism’s deep influence on design
Veronica Simpson looks at the new temporary accommodation the practice Reed Watts has created for the homeless.
It’s 1958. A group of six modern British artists — students of the RCA and the Slade — are all living together in a large rambling Manor House in the Hertfordshire countryside. They had space to paint, but no heating. Visitors would drive the hour from…
Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has designed a range of affordable, minimal chairs based on a single wooden shell for French furniture brand Alki.
Anita le Roy set up Monmouth Coffee Company in 1978, and while other coffee shop operators have mutated into global chains, Monmouth has stuck to its knitting. It sources and roasts coffee from single farms, estates and cooperatives, which it sells to …
Kimonos, and a “place for rest.”
TNW headed to the Maker Faire in Lille, and, well, we found a whole load of awesome stuff. In this post, we've collated the best of the best.
The 79-room hotel sits on top of the company’s flagship store in Tokyo.
Director and graphic artist Nicolas Ménard has done it again. And this time it comes in the form of a one-minute stop-motion animation, shot entirely in-camera featuring hundreds of miniatures for Mexican beer brand Corona. Arguably one of Mexico’s most recognisable brands, the film is narrated by Gael García Bernal and shows how Corona is intertwined in Mexico’s history.
Dezeen speaks to a panel of experts about designing office spaces where people want to work and not where they have to, in this talk filmed by Dezeen for Coalesse at Steelcase's London-based showroom.
Retail has had three phases, according to Katelijn Quartier, who heads the Retail Design Laboratory at Hasselt University in Belgium. ‘In Retail 1.0, the manufacturer was in charge and no designer was needed. Retail 2.0 was a phase where the retailer was in charge but hired an architect or interior architect to design the store following the brand’s or retailer’s ideas,’ she wrote in Retail Design, Theoretical Perspectives (Routledge). We have entered ‘Retail 3.0, a time when the customer is more and more in charge… This asks for much more from a designer than to translate a retailer’s identity into a store design and goes beyond mere functionality and efficiency – even more so now that a commodification of products, brands and retail is occurring’.
exploring ways in which everyone can make furniture designer jisun kim has used fabric net and expanding foam to create a collection of unique pieces.
Ikea is testing a new model in Switzerland: Renting out furniture rather than just selling it. Think of it as Netflix for chairs.
Ikea’s innovation lab debuts SolarVille, a blockchain-powered solar microgrid, which points toward the furniture giant’s sustainability ambitions.
From the wicker chairs of the 1920s, the evolution of airplane seats has rapidly diverged in two different directions — toward luxurious full-sized beds on first class international flights and the…
He painted prisoners, devoured Dickens and worshipped the London News … ahead of a major show, our writer reveals how Britain changed Van Gogh – and how he transformed its art
No Allen key required, luckily.
Contemporary craft by makers such as Studio Toogood, Max Lamb and Anthony Burrill have been woven into the grand interiors of Harewood House as part of its first craft and design biennial.
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