Design Miami/Basel 2016: an interactive wave of tiles and a crystallophone are among the 2016 Swarovski Designers of the Future Award commissions, revealed yesterday at Design Miami/Basel (+ slideshow). (more…)
London and St Louis-based design studio Kiku Obata & Company is overseeing the redevelopment of an ageing downtown district in the US heartland, in a rural town where big-box stores have taken over (+ slideshow). (more…)
Johanna Agerman Ross is leaving her post as editor of quarterly design journal Disegno to join the V&A as curator of 20th century and contemporary furniture and 20th century product design. (more…)
Comments update: architect Kunlé Adeyemi’s award-winning Makoko Floating School collapsed earlier this week, sparking a debate about the project’s credentials and the media’s previously flattering coverage of its design. But does the floating-school concept still have a future? (more…)
Benjamin Hubert‘s design studio Layer has created a collection of slip-cast ceramic trays with an integrated charging system that allows tablets and mobile phones to be powered wirelessly. (more…)
Dezeen promotion: Chinese architects Lu Wenyu and Wang Shu, who was awarded the 2012 Pritzker Prize, will deliver the Royal Academy’s prestigious Annual Architecture Lecture this year. (more…)
NeoCon 2016: London studio Industrial Facility has designed a modular seating system for US furniture company Herman Miller that hooks together to turn “a communal gathering area into a lecture theatre”. (more…)
Design Miami/Basel 2016: this year’s Design Miami/Basel fair opens today in the Swiss city, where a six-tonne stone meditation space, a modular armadillo and designs by Zaha Hadid are among the highlights. (more…)
Amsterdam studio Uxus has designed a gift shop with stackable shelving for the new Tate Modern extension, which is set to open to the public this week (+ slideshow). (more…)
