Dezeen promotion: well-known designers including Ross Lovegrove, Jürgen Mayer H, Job Smeets and Joyce Wang will speak at this year’s Inside festival seminar programme. (more…)
Inside 2016 conference programme announced
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Social media sceptic Philippe Starck joins Facebook and Instagram
French designer Philippe Starck has belatedly joined Facebook and Instagram, despite previously describing digital media as “sick”.
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Shoreham Beach House by ABIR Architects features gabion walls filled with beach pebbles
ABIR Architects used pebbles found on the beach to create the layered facade of this house in the English seaside town of Shoreham – which featured in last night’s episode of UK television show Homes By The Sea. (more…)
London needs to address its profit-and-loss skyline, says Antony Gormley
London’s latest crop of skyscrapers don’t give enough back to the city according to British sculptor Antony Gormley, who claims the British capital is growing at the expense of its citizens (+ interview). (more…)
Max Gerthel Studio covers former junkyard in Beijing hutong with inflatable canopy
Beijing Design Week 2016: Max Gerthel Studio has created an events pavilion that inflates and deflates to mimic a breathing octopus – joining the ranks of design practices to have made inflatable pavilions (+ movie). (more…)
Pauline van Dongen designs clothes that correct your posture
Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has created a smart top that vibrates in response to bad posture (+ slideshow). (more…)
Overtreders W installs orange pipework above heads of customers in Netherlands cafe
Rapt Studio creates “family rooms” inside new Utah headquarters for Ancestry
American firm Rapt Studio has designed the interiors for tech company Ancestry’s new office, which features comfy lounge areas, communal dining tables and art installations that refer to genealogy (+ slideshow). (more…)
Nike releases Mag self-lacing shoes from Back to the Future II
Sports brand Nike is raffling limited editions of the self-lacing shoes that feature in sci-fi film Back to the Future II (+ movie). (more…)
Sun-like disc of 8,000 Swarovski crystals installed at baroque Viennese palace
Vienna Design Week 2016: London design studio Fredrikson Stallard has brought its glimmering Prologue installation to Vienna’s baroque Belvedere Palace (+ slideshow). (more…)
Sig Nordal 