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10 August, 2010
If you're an interior design graduate under 30 and think you could be the next David Collins or Tara Bernerd then this is for you: the Interior Design Association Young Commercial Designer of the Year competition, in association with the...
18 June, 2010
There's something both familiar and strange about the The New Décor, an exhibition that opens at the Hayward Gallery on London's South Bank this Saturday. The show features work by leading contemporary artists whose sculpture and installation...
11 June, 2010
The organisers of the London Festival of Architecture 2010 have announced details of some of the 300 events taking place between 19 June and 4 July. The biennial festival promises to be a celebration and exploration of buildings, streets,...
26 May, 2010
To celebrate the World Cup, office furniture specialist Bene is raffling off one these AL Kicker Tables.
30 April, 2010
The days of the energy-guzzling incandescent light bulb are numbered, but as I found out when I visited lighting design company John Cullen this week for a lighting design masterclass, replacing the old-fashioned tungsten filament lamp is...
8 March, 2010
Formally announced today, the seven category winners of the prestigious Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Awards was revealed last night on BBC Two's The Culture Show. The programme gave us a taste of the lively and often heated discussion...
4 March, 2010
The market for office 'task chairs' is tough, and manufacturers are always keen to let us know just how 'revolutionary' their latest model is. But how much of what they say is hyperbole? Well, in the week before its official UK launch yesterday,...
11 February, 2010
January is already tuning into February, and with the New Year has come a flurry of invitations to must-see design events all over the world. Unfortunately, it's impossible to attend every one, but one event I'm making sure I get to is Design...
11 February, 2010
It's more than 70 years since the Hindenburg disaster put an end to the golden age of the Zeppelin, and airships have come a long, long way since then. Safe and environmentally friendly, the airship, also known as the dirigible, has captured...
1 February, 2010
God knows, much is discussed about sustainability. So much so that it can make you yawn with the repetition of “it is a good thing” - whilst simultaneously dreading receiving another telling-off on the way we live and how it’s always someone...
19 November, 2009
London’s Design Museum pulled a huge crowd last night for a preview of its latest exhibition, Less is More: the Design Ethos of Dieter Rams, which opens to the public today (18 November).
1 October, 2009
In the past year we’ve seen banking behemoths and high street stalwarts topple, but ‘pop-up’ projects – bars, clubs, restaurants and shops, which appear for a few months and then vanish before the initial buzz dies down – have seized the day.
1 September, 2009
The rise of ethically minded consumers and criticism from the likes of Naomi Klein in recent years has seen global superbrands like Nike strive to redefine their credibility. And the design of their stores is key.
1 September, 2009
With the London Design Festival approaching, we’re in danger of getting a bit London-centric. So I was glad to learn this week that plans for a new Victoria and Albert Museum in Dundee are a step closer to fruition.
11 August, 2009
In a recent press release, ACID, the self-described ‘hard-hitting’ Anti Copying in Design organisation, has attacked what it sees as the Government’s soft line on Intellectual property theft.
10 August, 2009
Hosted by the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the biennial Icograda World Design Congress will be held in Beijing, China for the first time. From 24-30 October 2009, some 100 speakers and thousands of delegates from around the globe...
27 July, 2009
Britain’s got talent. Much as I think of design as an international concept, the UK has some terrific creative ideas.
24 July, 2009
It might not be interior design as we would usually think of it, but Turner Prize-nominated artist Roger Hiorns’ Seizure, a work of art which has turned a south London council flat into a cavern of twinkling blue crystals, is a parable of...
10 July, 2009
You’re never far from a branch of the much imitated YO Sushi chain these days. Since opening the UK’s first Kaiten-zushi (conveyor-belt sushi bar) in Soho in 1997, the chain has swelled to a mighty 41 branches in the UK alone. But as I found...
9 July, 2009
In response to Johann Sebastian Bach’s music, Zaha Hadid Architects has created an extraordinary new chamber music hall, which will be installed within Manchester Art Gallery for the duration of the Manchester International Festival.
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