• Mather & Co starts work on New Olympic Museum

    5 February 2014

    Museum and visitor attraction design consultancy Mather & Co has started 2014 on a high note, with its design for the new International Olympic Museum in Lausanne coming to fruition with the opening of the museum.

  • Euroshop event to be 'biggest ever'

    5 February 2014

    Euroshop returns to Düsseldorf later from 16-20 February 2014 and this year’s offering is set to be another whopper. With more than 2,000 exhibitors occupying 16 halls, and an expected visitor footfall in excess of 100,000, it is no surprise to learn that Euroshop is the largest capital goods trade fair for the retail trade.

  • Interview: Mark Ridler

    5 February 2014

    Trained as an engineer, the call of his creative interests was too much to resist for Mark Ridler, who moved over to theatre, he tells Jamie Mitchell. Now design director of lighting design practice BDP, his unusual background has led to some outstanding work

  • On the Drawing Board: National Graphene Institute by Jestico + Whiles

    4 February 2014

  • Surface Design Show 2014

    27 January 2014

    Getting ready to stage its 11th outing, the Surface Design Show opens its three-day residence at the Business Design Centre, London. from 4-6 February Emily Martin takes a look at highlights of this year’s offering

  • Street furniture: great design we often take for granted

    22 January 2014

    Walking down the street we tend to take the lamp posts, traffic lights, bins and benches for granted. But who has designed them and do they have a deeper function than their apparent one? Helen Parton investigates

  • Say no to identikit restaurant and bar design

    17 January 2014

    No one wants the ‘cookie cutter’ approach to restaurant and bar design, whether its a chain or an independent, giving designers great challenges and opportunities for creativity, says Mark Bithrey

  • Canterbury student James young wins award from ReardonSmith

    15 January 2014

    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

    15 January 2014

    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?

    14 January 2014

    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