March 4th, 2009

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Design Indaba 09: the fourth movie in our series from the Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town last week is an interview with New York designer Stephen Burks of Readymade Projects. More »

March 4th, 2009

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David Chipperfield Architects and Julian Harrap Architects have completed the renovation of the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany. More »

March 4th, 2009

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Polish designers Hanna Kokczyńska, Jacek Majewski and Michał Gratkowski of Super Super have completed a low-budget clothes shop called Fumo in Warsaw, Poland, using cheap materials from a builders’ merchant. More »

March 4th, 2009

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David Boira and Zoë Coombes of New York architecture and design studio Commonwealth have designed a series of furniture inspired by cooking fat. More »

March 3rd, 2009

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Designer Björn Franke will exhibit a kit for creating evidence of an imaginary affair during the furniture fair in Milan next month. More »

March 3rd, 2009

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Formosa 1140 by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) is a new eleven-unit housing project in West Hollywood, California. More »

March 3rd, 2009

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Twenty designers including Arik Levy (above) and Matali Crasset (below) will exhibit sex toys and other objects on the theme of love in Milan next month, during the furniture fair. More »

March 2nd, 2009

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New York design brand Areaware have launched Moof, an aluminium bicycle by Dutch designer Sjoerd Smit that features built-in solar-powered lights. More »

March 2nd, 2009

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Polish designer Katarzyna Okinczyc and photographer Remigiusz Truchanowicz have designed the 60Bag, a carrier-bag that degrades in 60 days. More »

March 2nd, 2009

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Here are the latest jobs from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with Singapore designers Fitch and London PR agency Camron. Plus there’s only one more week to apply for jobs with Munich architects eins:33, Manchester lighting brand Searchlight Electric, Belgian design consultancy Creneau and more… More »

March 2nd, 2009

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London firm Alison Brooks Architects have completed Quarterhouse, an art and business centre in the seaside town of Folkestone, England. More »

March 2nd, 2009

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Here are some photos of the new Droog design store in New York, designed by Makkink & Bey, the Dutch design studio headed by Jurgen Bey. More »

March 1st, 2009

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Better late than never #2: Milan architects Francesco Librizzi and Vittorio Venezia designed a stand for ceramics brands Iris and FMG at Cersaie 2008, the annual ceramics fair in Bologna, Italy last summer. More »

March 1st, 2009

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Better late than never # 1: Coming Out is a collection of prototypes by Swiss designers Zmik, exhibited at V-Gallery in Basel, Switzerland, last year. More »