• Lee Broom designs new bar for Selfridges

    Product and interior designer Lee Broom has been commissioned by Selfridges in London to design an innovative new cocktail bar to mark the first anniversary of the store’s Men’s Shoe Galleries. Opening this month it is a first in a retail environment.

  • Canterbury student James young wins award from ReardonSmith

    The winner of the 2013 Sleep ReardonSmith Student Award is James Young, a fourth-year student studying for his Masters in Architecture at the Canterbury School of Architecture.

  • Leading architects come together for new design event The Fix

    FX collaborated with Gensler, Livewire and Cole Consulting to bring together property, retail and design with this new initiative, The Fix. At its launch, we focused on the pop-up and the implications for the retail, hotel and the hospitality, and property sectors. How creative are pop-ups — and how is money made from them? Toby Maxwell reports

  • In a digitally connected world, are we losing touch with reality?

    Is a future of constant and frenetic connectivity inevitable? Veronica Simpson thinks designers need to step back from the digital tsunami to ensure that the joys of analogue experience aren’t swept away completely

  • Last chance to fly to NeoCon with fly Forbo

    Designers new and established have just a matter of days to enter the latest Fly Forbo design competition, with a trip for two to Chicago, accommodation and entry into NeoCon 2014 as top prize.

  • MET Studio will make sludge look good...

    MET Studio has been commissioned as the lead exhibition designer for a 2,000 sq m environmental education centre to be housed within a new sludge treatment facility in the Tuen Mun district of Hong Kong. When completed it will be the world’s largest of its kind.

  • Empowering cities with good design

    This year welcomes back the World Design Capital (WDC), awarded to Cape Town.

  • What I expect from design

    In the first of another new series of features, Moira Gemmill, director of projects, design and estate for the Victoria and Albert Museum, talks to Pamela Buxton about her work as director of projects at the museum and what she looks for when commissioning work

  • Top 5 Products

    our pick of the best new products

  • Look down

    Emily Black looks at recent projects in which the inspired use of flooring by designers has greatly enhanced the overall scheme