Business news: a lawsuit has uncovered details that suggest the 2014 merger between US furniture brand Herman Miller and retailer Design Within Reach may not have technically happened. (more…)
With the trend for co-living continuing to pick up speed, German architect Alexis Dornier has transformed a group of old apartment blocks in Bali into a communal housing development (+ slideshow). (more…)
New materials company Ananas Anam is using pineapple waste to create a new material that provides an animal-friendly alternative to leather. (more…)
Designers and brands need to wean themselves off the plastic “drug”, according to Parley for the Oceans founder Cyrill Gutsch, who is releasing his organisation’s shoes made from recycled ocean plastic with Adidas today (+ interview). (more…)
Sports brand Adidas and environmental initiative Parley for the Oceans have released the first batch of running shoes with uppers made using recycled plastic recovered from the sea (+ movie). (more…)
The company behind the world’s first widely available modular smartphone has released a set of concepts imagining completely new gadgets created with Google’s Project Ara (+ slideshow). (more…)
British architect Michael Manser, a pioneering Modernist and founder of the Manser Medal, has died aged 87. (more…)
