A personal review of design creations
Verner Panton: Form, Colour, Space
Verner Panton at 100: The Man Who Declared War on Beige. From the Panton Chair to the Spiegel Canteen, the Vitra Design Museum's new retrospective makes the case for design's greatest provocateur.
When Milan Stood Still for an Apricot Tree
A Suspended Moment in Milan: How a Story About a Lost Sea Found Its Audience
In a Park: How a Forgotten Brick Reframes Domestic Life
In Singapore, a modest apartment renovation by L Architects reimagines domestic life through red brick, greenery and the spatial logic of a park. In a Park shows how a forgotten material can bring warmth, intimacy and a quietly generous way of living back into the home.
Material Witness: Celebrating Design From Within
An exhibition exploring design as a situated practice, shaped by landscape, craft and material intelligence in AlUla.
Design from within: AlUla Design Award
Where the human hand meets ancient ground: AlUla Design Award celebrates design shaped from within.
Patricia Urquiola: Meta-Morphosa
Patricia Urquiola’s exhibition at the Centre for Innovation and Design at Grand-Hornu arrives at a moment when design can no longer ignore its own implications.
Fungi: Anarchist Designers
Fungi: Anarchist Designers. A refreshing exhibition that casts fungi not as trendy materials but as autonomous designers with their own unruly logic, far beyond our control at the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.
Pastéis de Belém Reimagined — Contemporary Ode to Craft
A contemporary interpretation of Lisbon’s most beloved bakery, where Gracinha Viterbo blends heritage, craftsmanship, and modern elegance into a timeless new space.
AlUla Design Award 2025
In its fourth edition, the AlUla Design Award invites designers from around the world to take part in an open callcelebrating “The Ingenuity of the Human Hand” across two tracks: Fashion Design and Product Design.
The Aral School: A Classroom for the Future, Rising from the Sands of Uzbekistan
At the World Design Congress in London, an announcement resonated with unusual urgency: the launch of The Aral School, a bold new educational initiative in Uzbekistan that blends ecology, design, and social innovation.