• Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2014 - preview

    4 April 2014

    The annual Milan Furniture Fair takes place at the Milan fairgrounds, 8-13 April

  • All Change in the retail design sector

    4 April 2014

    David Dalziel of integrated design consultancy Dalziel + Pow reflects on his company’s success in the sector over its three decades of business, and tells FX how technology has changed the retail market forever.

  • Sparking a creative approach to lighting public spaces

    28 March 2014

    Established in 2004 by Philips Lumec and aimed at young designers, the Fondation Concept Lumière Urbaine aims to spark a more creative approach to lighting exterior public spaces. Its design competition provides the focus. As the winners of the most recent Socialight awards demonstrate, concepts can veer from the feasible to the apparently fanciful but all are rooted in existing technology and proven principles

  • If only...we could use cloud generators in London spaces

    26 March 2014

    Says Coupdeville Architects

  • Design that uses natural light to generate energy

    26 March 2014

    Two temporary structures erected last year, at a festival and major building event respectively, demonstrated how natural light could be used to generate renewable energy, inspired by or exploiting biomechanical methods

  • One to Watch: Plant & Moss

    26 March 2014

    Plant & Moss, setting out to design memorable products aimed at becoming family heirlooms

  • Lighting design that's blazing a trail

    26 March 2014

    From glow-in-the-dark parks to signs of the times, we look at some of the more thought-provoking lighting concepts installed around the world over the past few years

  • Colin Macgadie - 10 things I’ve learned about design

    18 March 2014

    Colin Macgadie is creative director at BDG Architecture + Design, which he joined in 2012. He studied interior design at the University for the Creative Arts and has to date enjoyed a 12-year career in workplace design and strategy, he tells Pamela Buxton

  • Echte Rotterdammers, Rotterdam, by Thomas Ruppert

    18 March 2014

    With crowd-sourced content, an off-site, ‘pop-up’ location and theatrical designer, Rotterdam Museum’s Echte Rotterdammers show ticks all the boxes for community engagement

  • Nathan Yong - interview

    18 March 2014

    Only 36 years old, Nathan Yong is heading up his second successful design business after going off to do an MA in between ventures. Twice a Red Dot Award winner and probably best known for his humanitarian mass-production coffin, for use in major disasters, he talks to Emily Martin about his passion for design