A portable stove with reduced carbon emissions. A syringe that warns you of prior use. Flatpack refugee tents with integrated solar panels. One of these three ingenious finalists will win the World Design Impact Prize.
By Catherine Osborne |
February 5, 2014
Section: Design
Tags: Industry News, Product Design
The American industrial designer who literally wrote the book on ergonomic design has died at the age of 84.
By Elizabeth Pagliacolo |
June 12, 2013
Section: Curiosity
Tags: Industry News, Personalities
The Japanese architect will receive the 2013 Pritzker Prize for Architecture, the profession’s highest honour.
By Nina Boccia |
March 18, 2013
Section: Architecture
Tags: Architecture, Industry News
Bill Moggridge, inventor of the first laptop computer, IDEO co-founder and director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, died on September 8.
By Nina Boccia |
September 10, 2012
Section: Design
Tags: Industry News, Personalities
The Italian manufacturer always has a big presence during the fair, but this year, to celebrate its 60th anniversary, it has announced a long list of special events that will take place over the coming year.
By Catherine Osborne |
April 3, 2012
Section: Design
Tags: Furniture, Industry News, Milan Design Week
New York’s James Corner Field Operations — the landscape designer behind the High Line — has been selected to revitalize the slice of Chicago waterfront that Daniel Burnham once envisioned as the People’s Pier.
By Nina Boccia |
March 15, 2012
Section: Architecture
Tags: Green Design, Industry News, Landscape
The Chinese architect has been named winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize for Architecture, becoming the first China-based recipient in the award’s history.
By Nina Boccia |
February 28, 2012
Section: Architecture
Tags: Industry News
Concrete pathways that double as the framework for an ampitheatre are sure to lure visitors to the Scottish city’s new urban park.
By David Dick-Agnew |
February 7, 2012
Section: Architecture
Tags: Green Design, Industry News, Landscape
Plans for the new home of London’s premiere venue for contemporary design and architecture transforms a Kensington relic into an iconic building.
By Nina Boccia |
February 2, 2012
Section: Architecture
Tags: Cultural, Industry News
Brooklyn architecture firm Studio a+i has nabbed the top prize in a competition that called for proposals for a public park and memorial on a wedge of land in New York City’s West Village.
By Nina Boccia |
February 1, 2012
Section: Architecture
Tags: Competition, Industry News, Landscape
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