Designer Gitta Gschwendtner explains how historic underground tunnels inspired her installation of seven ladders bridging the street in this movie we filmed about the Seven Designers for Seven Dials aerial installations curated by Dezeen. More »
Installations
"My ladders provide an imaginative route
"I brought bird cages back to the
Seven Dials area" - Dominic Wilcox
Designer Dominic Wilcox describes why he chose to hang a row of bird cages above a street in London in the next movie we filmed about the Seven Designers for Seven Dials aerial installations curated by Dezeen. More »
Das Haus by
Luca Nichetto
Cologne 2013: Italian designer Luca Nichetto installed his idea of the house of the future at trade fair imm cologne last week (+ slideshow). More »
"It was about celebrating trades that
have been lost" - Faye Toogood
Designer Faye Toogood talks through her installation of 49 workers' coats hanging above the street in the first of this series of movies we filmed about the Seven Designers for Seven Dials aerial installations curated by Dezeen. More »
Multi-Touch Gestures
by Gabriele Meldaikyte
Royal College of Art student Gabriele Meldaikyte has designed a set of interactive exhibits for a museum of iPhone gestures (+ slideshow). More »
"The pieces wouldn't be anything without the
people who interact with them" – Jason Bruges
A wall of digital animals that distract children on their way to surgery is one of the interactive installations presented by designer Jason Bruges in this movie we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day. More »
David Bowie is
at the V&A
A collection of original costumes, set designs, photographs, instruments and other objects from David Bowie's personal archive will go on show at the V&A museum in London this March, coinciding with the release of the pop star's first album and single in a decade. More »
"We got into a geeky zone trying to understand urban agriculture" – Something & Son
In this movie we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day, design duo Something & Son talk about keeping chickens in east London buildings and making tea with heat from compost heaps. More »
To Have and To Hold
by JamesPlumb
The illusory shadows of burning candles and unexpected assemblages of decrepit furniture make up the latest collection by British designers JamesPlumb. More »
Starlight by Erich Remash, Jeremy Berglund,
Don Peterson and Chad Ingle
These seven star-shaped lights appeared in the flat expanse of Nevada's Black Rock Desert during this year's Burning Man festival (+ slideshow). More »
Transformations by Maarten de Ceulaer
for Fendi
Design Miami: Belgian designer Maarten de Ceulaer nailed bendy leather planks onto solid wood to create this installation of stripy furniture for Italian fashion house Fendi (+ slideshow). More »
Out of Print by Roma Levin, James Cuddy,
Danilo Di Cuia and Goldsmiths students
Random snippets of news headlines are harvested from the internet, muddled up and printed using a traditional wooden letterpress in this movie by the Out of Print team. More »
"I couldn't name many interesting
US designers" – Vito Acconci
Design Miami: now is "not the best time for design" in the United States, according to designer, artist and architect Vito Acconci, who this week became the first American to receive Design Miami's Designer of the Year award (+ interview). More »
Parhelia by
Asif Khan
Design Miami: London designer Asif Khan used Swarovski crystals to recreate an ice halo - an atmospheric effect most often seen in freezing northern climates - in this installation in the sub-tropical heat of Miami (+ slideshow). More »
Lost Time by Glithero
for Perrier-Jouët
Design Miami: inspired by Gaudí's ingenious method to create the perfect curve, Anglo-Dutch design duo Glithero have hung loops of beaded chain over a shallow pool of water in an installation for champagne house Perrier-Jouët (+ slideshow). More »
