21st century icons

Twenty-First Century Design by Marcus Fairs

If you’re looking for design-related Christmas presents, this makes the perfect gift, etc etc! Twenty-First Century Design by Dezeen edit0r-in-chief Marcus Fairs is an overview of design at the start of the new millennium More »

The Bubble Project by Ji Lee

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Twenty-first century icons: The Bubble Project is an on-going project that involves placing speech-bubble stickers on advertising posters around the world and then returning to photograph the comments people have scrawled on them. More »

Smoke by Maarten Baas

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Twenty-First Century icons: here is another of our irregular serialisations of chapters from Marcus Fairs’ book, Twenty-First Century Design, which was published by Carlton Books last October. You can read more sample chapters here. More »

Scum Light by Jerszy Seymour

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Twenty-First Century icons: normal dezeen service will resume on Monday! Meanwhile, here’s our final installation of chapters from Marcus’ book, Twenty-First Century Design. More »

Airborne Snotty Vases by Marcel Wanders

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Twenty-First Century icons: dezeen is on holiday this week so each day we’re posting a chapter from dezeen editor Marcus Fairs’ book, Twenty-First Century Design. More »

21st century design icons: Bapexclusive

A new feature on dezeen: an occasional series of profiles of key designs from the twenty-first century, starting with Wonderwall‘s Bapexclusive store in Aoyama, Tokyo. More »