Dezeen Wire: Apple designer Jonathan Ive was in London yesterday to receive his knighthood and give a number of press interviews, including this one for the Telegraph in which he says: “Design is a word that’s come to mean so much that it’s also a word that has come to mean nothing. We don’t really talk about design, we talk about developing ideas and making products.” More »
Dezeen Wire: the UK government has announced changes in the law that will extend copyright protection of ‘artistic’ manufactured goods from just 25 years to the life of the creator plus 70 years, giving design the same term of protection as literature and art. More »
Dezeen Wire: Japanese designer Takeshi Miyakawa has been accused of planting false bombs and arrested while installing his work in a New York street during the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. More »
Dezeen Wire: Hackney Council have announced the call for entries to this year’s Hackney Design Awards. More »
Dezeen Wire: the world’s tallest broadcast tower opened to the public for the first time today in Tokyo – The Independent
The 634-metre-high structure, named the Sky Tree, overtakes the Canton Tower in China, which is 34 metres shorter. More »
Dezeen Wire: architects Piers Gough and Amanda Levete plus architectural historian Charles Jencks have given their verdict on the architecture of the Olympic site in an article for British newspaper The Guardian.
While the Olympic stadium and handball arena are severely criticised by the group, all three praise the velodrome and aquatics centre.
Read the full story here and see our special feature rounding up all the permanent structures for the London 2012 games here.
Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects has announced that architect Stephen Hodder of Manchester firm Hodder+Partners will be the organisation’s next president, after running for the position unopposed. More »
Dezeen Wire: the completed ArcelorMittal Orbit tower has opened its doors to critics, who unlike Dezeen readers have welcomed the gigantic steel structure by artist Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond. More »
Dezeen Wire: Dezeen has been shortlisted for this year’s Association of Online Publishers Awards in the Website – Business 2012 and Digital Publisher – Business 2012 categories. Winners will be announced on 19 July. See the full shortlist here.
Dezeen Wire: Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has been accused of “bleeding Valencia dry” over alleged fees of €100 million for the showpiece City of the Arts and Science cultural centre in the city – The Guardian More »
Dezeen Wire: Dezeen is one of the top five design sites in the world, according to business magazine Forbes.com. More »
Dezeen Wire: Chelsea Football Club have made an offer to buy Battersea Power Station in south London, with plans to redevelop it into a 60,000 capacity stadium - BBC
Creditors of previous owners Treasury Holdings put the building up for sale in January. See abandoned plans for the site by Rafael Viñoly here and a more recent alternative proposal by Terry Farrell here.
Dezeen Wire: a glazed skyscraper being constructed across the street from the Renzo Piano-designed Nasher Sculpture Centre in Dallas is creating so much glare that it is damaging artworks, burning plants and dazzling visitors – New York Times
Originally completed in 2003, the museum features a glazed roof that was intended to let gentle levels of daylight inside. However, the arrival of the new tower has forced curators to install light-blocking panels for a recent exhibition. More »
Dezeen Wire: New York Times technology reporter Jenna Wortham investigates how crowd-funding site Kickstarter is changing industrial design - New York Times
The article focusses on the success story of the Pebble watch , which has to date received a record-breaking $7,718,678 of pledges through the platform with 17 days still to go. See our story about it here.
Read more about Kickstarter on Dezeen here and watch an interview about crowd-sourcing and open design with Domus editor-in-chief Joseph Grima here.
Dezeen Studio we’ve been back from Milan for a week now and have fully recovered from filming a TV show every day for Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST.
Here’s a roundup of the highlights from MOST at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia, which took place among the ships, fighter jets, submarines and canons of the museum from 17 to 22 April, plus another chance to see the daily movies we made. More »