• Process – The making of Wolfgang Buttress’ UK Pavilion

    26 May 2015

    For the Milan Expo this year, artist Wolfgang Buttress has created a multimedia Hive inspired by the British Bumblebee. Cate St Hill met manufacturer Stage One at its workshop in Yorkshire before the complex structure was taken to Milan.

  • Digital Double - Jason Bruges Studio

    27 April 2015

    As part of the GREAT Britain campaign, Jason Bruges Studio worked with Benchmark to create a digital version of the iconic Number 10 door for one morning in February

  • New looks for political parties

    27 April 2015

    The UK's leading design consultancies put a modern spin on the polls with these innovative graphics.

  • Screening our Future - Territory

    27 April 2015

    London-based creative studio Territory has been grabbing our attention with future fictional worlds in films such as Ex Machina and Prometheus as well as graphic projects for Virgin Atlantic and the Guardian. From within their glass-box studio, the team explains how they’re blurring the lines between fiction, the virtual, the artificial and the real.

  • London's Top Model Gets Bigger, Has More to Say

    23 April 2015

    At the start of April, London's top model vanished without trace. Yet since the twenty-second of the month, at the same Bloomsbury haunt, the model has been back. Still... something has changed. The model is somehow bigger, and has a lot more on show.

  • Blueprint for the Future - James Woudhuysen

    20 April 2015

    Yes, British retailers have too much space — they’re overfooted. But the rise of mobile shopping may see a revival of street-market haggling, and payment technologies will have to fit all comers. Expect more LEDs, the appearance of shop-floor robots, and more engrossing attractions, says James Woudhuysen in the first of a new, forward-looking Blueprint for the Future column. A co-founder of Blueprint, James Woudhuysen now speaks to and writes for an international audience on the future of innovation.

  • The Bilbao effect: Britain plays to the gallery

    20 April 2015

    The last thirty years have seen a boom in the building of large-scale art galleries in English regional centres, unprecedented since Victorian days. For former industrial towns, stripped of a purpose and revenue stream by the collapse of heavy industry, art was touted as the new salvation. Have our prestigious new galleries realised the dream of local regeneration?

  • The Bilbao Effect - Hit and Myth

    13 April 2015

    Statement buildings are so last century. As the architectural world awaits the winning scheme for the Guggenheim Helsinki, we reflect on the legacy — both intended and unintended — of the Guggenheim Bilbao. What underpins its extraordinary success as a cultural icon? And can Helsinki hope to replicate that formula?

  • Curated Diary – Ross Urwin

    13 April 2015

    Founding creative director of Infrastructure Ross Urwin picks his top events for the coming months

  • Review - Stockholm Furniture Fair

    13 April 2015

    Braving the snowy climes of midwinter Northern Europe, Cate St Hill found Stockholm to be a furniture fair full of emerging young talent, pared-back colours, clean lines and effortless cool