• If only...

    29 October 2013

    If only... Google was a bank

  • Studio 54 founder Ian Schrager to speak at The Sleep Event

    25 October 2013

    Ian Schrager, one of the founders of iconic New York nightclub Studio 54 tops the bill at the hospitality trade show this year

  • Win a trip to Chicago and Neocon in the Forbo design competition

    7 October 2013

    Forbo Flooring’s Fly Forbo design competition is attracting entries for its second outing in the UK after 12 successful years running in Australia.

  • Designers’ dolls houses in bid for charity

    7 October 2013

    Twenty of the world’s best contemporary architects and designers will present their version of a dolls’ house in an exhibition and auction next month at Bonhams in aid of the KIDS charity.

  • Dutch design week gets a makeover

    7 October 2013

    This month sees the return of Dutch Design Week (DDW), now in its 12th annual outing, but with a few added extras this year.

  • Barber Osgerby chair to sit pretty at Bodleian

    7 October 2013

    A chair design by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby has been named as the winner of the Bodleian Libraries Chair Competition.

  • New Blood: Designers in Residence 2013

    3 October 2013

    A new crop of four young up-and-coming designers has been selected to be this year’s Design Museum Designers in Residence. All will benefit from a bursary of £6,000 to continue their design investigations. Director of the Design Museum Deyan Sudjic said that this year’s Designers in Residence programme, now in its sixth year, ‘will explore of how design in any field can be used to convey, to create, or to reflect a sense of identity’.

  • Temporary Treats

    20 September 2013

    Pop-ups were the fad of the past decade, but now temporary structures are adding real design ingenuity to the mix, bringing new life to unusual, dif­ficult or previously uncelebrated spaces. Veronica Simpson Investigates

  • Jestico + Whiles Takes tea and gin to new heights for aqua shard

    12 September 2013

    Architect and interiors company Jestico + Whiles’ take on Southwark’s gin-distilling and tea-importing history is revealed with its design of the aqua shard restaurant.

  • Your chance to vote for the FX premier awards has arrived

    4 September 2013

    Online voting for the FX premier awards is open until the end of the month – your opportunity to decide who best deserves the award in the following four categories: breakthrough talent of the year; interior design practice of the year; product designer of the year and the outstanding lifetime contribution to design award.