Monthly archives: August 2010

Fashion designer Iris van Herpen collaborated with New York company .MGX by Materialise and artist Daniel Widrig to create 3D printed clothes. More »

An exhibition of work by South Korean designer Kwangho Lee, including this seating made of woven garden hoses, will be presented at Hunting and Collecting gallery in Brussels this September. More »

An exhibition of furniture, photography and artworks by pioneering Modernist designer Charlotte Perriand is on show at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich in Switzerland. More »

These Stockholm offices for fashion brand Cheap Monday by Swedish designers Uglycute feature a conference room inside a pyramid. More »

These wooden drawers on a light metal frame are by Tokyo designer Keiji Ashizawa. More »

DezeenTV: Vienna designer Marco Dessí kicked off the third day of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, talking us through some of the work he has produced since first exhibiting there in 2006. More »
Dezeenwire: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London have published a trends survey indicating that a significant downturn in overall levels of business for British architects is expected. See press release below. More »

Stuttgart office Birk und Heilmeyer Architekten with Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering have completed this wooden observation tower in Hemer, Germany. More »

These dresses by Dutch designers Studio Roosegaarde and V2_ become transparent when approached. More »

French architects Studio Bellecour have completed a pair of office buildings near Toulouse, France, wrapped in aluminum fins and connected by a twisting concrete element. More »

Designers Boym Partners created these vases by joining crystal planes in homage to the Cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque. More »

Work by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is to be shown at the Château de Versailles in France. More »

A central staircase rises through split levels in this narrow house in Osaka by Japanese architect Shintaro Fujiwara. More »

University of Westminster architecture student James Gardener has designed this conceptual bridge for the River Thames, London, made from a series of floating elements that would be linked together and free to move with the tide. More »

This residential building by Israeli designer Ron Arad is to begin construction in Tel Aviv at the end of this year. More »