After years of rigorously assessing entries from practices spanning the globe, the Dezeen Awards and the Restaurant and Bar Design Awards have established themselves as the yardsticks for the very best international creative output.
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Built to mimic London’s finest Georgian houses, Union Crescent is one of Margate’s architectural treasures. We meet a couple restoring one of its historic homes with meticulous care and ingenuity.
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What colour predictions can we expect for our interiors in the year ahead?
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As we re-examine so much of the world from our contained bubbles, maybe it’s a time for architects and designers – the creators of the tactile world - to take a deeper look (or touch) at texture?
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Architecture and poetry may not seem likely bedfellows.
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We’re all fairly used to meetings conducted via video conference call now. But what happens for makers, particularly those who work in teams and need to be hands-on in their approach?
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Regular visitors of the London Design Festival are used to the magnitude of walking involved in getting around as much of the ever-expanding show as humanly possible during its week-long presence across the city.
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Deborah Spencer has felt a love for all things art and design for as long as she can remember.
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Prior to the lockdown there was a new design trade show in the pipeline for the London Design Festival in September.
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To date, 2020 has been a year of stark contrast in terms of our global experience of interior and exterior space.
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As last year’s New Designers exhibition wrapped up and plans began for the 35th anniversary this summer, no one could have anticipated the challenges that the show organisers and graduate exhibitors were set to face
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The idea of looking for Signals of Change™ feels particularly relevant to these uncertain times that we find ourselves in. It also feels hopeful.
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The ways in which we build must continue to change for the better, which means the materials and systems that we use to create and power them must also continue to limit the impact they cause to the environment.
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There have been countless material innovations over the past decade, with big brands, independent design studios, graduates and students all getting in on the act.
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If you’ve visited the Design Museum since it’s relocation to the old Commonwealth Institute just off London’s Kings Road, you will have experienced the attention-grabbing work of Morag Myerscough.
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By passing through the next original door, this one embellished with engraved glass panelling, you enter a space that is alive with colour and brimming with sumptuous features.
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Over the past few years there has been a steady rise in awareness of biophilic Design principles and all their virtues.
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Perhaps it’s time we look at the ‘blue dot’ a little differently - a growing number of consciously driven innovators are certainly doing so.
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Over the past year or so we have been reporting on how designers are making it their priority to create solutions for the growing list of issues that we face as a species, and 2020 will be no different.
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Whilst 2019 has had its fair share of controversy and an alarmingly apparent deepening of social and political division, there is still much that we can celebrate and congratulate from the world of design.
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