• Q+A

    Two leading design consultancies share the inside track of their thinking when it comes to materials, from favourites to sustainability

  • Top 5

    Pick of the best new products

  • Nando’s, Dundee

    For this new branch of a chain restaurant the interiors by BuckleyGrayYeoman are anything but from a kit – bespoke lighting, custom mural, and timber from Balinese huts...

  • Speirs + Major design lighting scheme for London's historic Burlington Arcade

    Speirs + Major, working alongside heritage architectural specialist Blair Associates, has designed a new lighting scheme for the Burlington Arcade in London’s Piccadilly.

  • Practice creates itself a new look in old setting

    Nottingham-based brand and packaging design consultancy We Are Pure has invested £200,000 in new offices, transforming a rundown building in one of the most historic parts of the city.

  • Doc Magic office, California

    Offices doing unexciting, albeit essential, work don’t have to look drab and boring, as Californian designers from RA-DA proved for this legal document company

  • Terminal illness

    Paris Berlin London: upgrades, rebuilds, and dreams – and ‘magic to stir the blood’. Stephen Hitchins investigates

  • Design Museum calls for new Designers in Residence

    The Design Museum in London is now accepting entries for its annual Designers in Residence programme, where young and up-and-coming designers are given a bursary to produce new work for an exhibition in September.

  • Finalists announced for 2013 Mies van der Rohe Award

    A city hall in Ghent, Belgium by Robbrecht en Daem architecten and Marie-José Van Hee architecten, and a home for elderly people in Alcácer do Sal, Portugal by Aires Mateus Arquitectos are among the five buildings nominated for the 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.

  • Extraordinary stories

    A new display of the Design Museum’s extensive permanent collection of contemporary design and architecture reveals intriguing insights into some of the exceptional as well as everyday items in the museum’s possession.