Dezeen Wire: design journalists are divided by the announcement that the Olympic Torch by British designers BarberOsgerby has won the overall prize at the Design of the Year awards, presented by the Design Museum in London. More »
Milan 2012: Hackney designers were busy in Milan last week and we’re bringing you some of the best new product launches, including this shelf by Stoke Newington duo Raw Edges where the front slides down to create a work surface. More »
Milan 2012: Italian furniture brand Magis presented these hanging sculptures made of wire mesh by sculptor Benedetta Mori Ubaldini at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. More »
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Dezeen promotion: in this podcast recorded in Milan, Aurel Aebi of multidisciplinary design practice atelier oï describes the scenography they created for Swiss bathroom brand Laufen, while designers Roberto Palomba and Toan Nguyen talk about their latest products. More »
Dezeen Wire: the London 2012 Olympic Torch by east London designers BarberOsgerby has been awarded as Design of the Year in a ceremony at the Design Museum in London tonight. More »
Milan 2012: this armchair with a pleated leather seat by London designer Benjamin Hubert was inspired by sleeves with puffed shoulders on Italian Renaissance clothing. More »
This stacking chair by French designer Philippe Starck is made of discarded material found in lumber factories and industrial plastic plants. More »
Milan 2012: Australian designer Marc Newson presented this child’s rocking horse for Italian brand Magis at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. More »
Dezeen Wire: design critic Justin McGuirk writes about the focus on alternative means of production, open-source design and crowd-funding that permeated this year’s Milan furniture fair in his column for the Guardian newspaper.
McGuirk talked to Dezeen about these issues when he popped into Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST last week – watch the interview in our daily show from Milan here.
We also spoke to editor-in-chief of Domus magazine Joseph Grima about The Future in the Making show he curated that’s all about collaboration, open design, crowd-sourcing and hacking, and interviewed curator Beatrice Galilee at Hacked Lab where workshops, demonstrations and happenings took over the city’s most famous department store all week.
Milan 2012: the flexible back of this chair by Swedish designers Front comprises a thick spring wrapped in black leather. More »
Milan 2012: in response to the growing number of freelancers looking for workspaces outside of their homes, London studio Aberrant Architecture have created pub tables that can be adapted into desks by day and games tables by night. More »
Milan 2012: today is the final edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio at MOST in which we round up some of the other things that have been happening during the week.
Tom Dixon demos the Digital Forming software he’s got on show that allows customers to customise their own bespoke Tom Dixon lamp or speaker and then purchase it online with the click of a button, Piers Roberts introduces the Designersblock exhibition in the cloisters of the museum and Achille Sassoli takes us on a tour of Carpigiani’s Gelato University. We also have footage of the MOST party from earlier in the week, as well as yesterday’s The Great Stamp Giveaway where 400 lucky visitors got their hands on a free Tom Dixon lamp. More »
Milan 2012: Bangkok designers THINKK studio have created a lamp that slots together like a children’s toy. More »
Milan 2012: today’s edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio at MOST is all about performance. First up Faye Toogood tells us how she’s curing visitors with clay in a soothing pavilion called La Cura, then Sheridan Coakley of London design brand SCP shows us round their stand where one chair is upholstered using traditional methods each day.
Our guest journalist is Joseph Grima, editor-in-chief of Domus magazine, who stopped by to tell us about the more reflective mood he senses in Milan this year and the themes of collaboration, open design, crowd-sourcing and hacking that are emerging in exhibits around the city. Finally, there’s some good news about the weather today! More »
Milan 2012: process and outcome are literally given equal weighting in this installation of work by Vienna designers Mischer’Traxler, shown on weighing scales at Wait and See shop in Milan this week. More »