October 19th, 2009

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Dutch Design Week 09: FlexVaas, a vase that comes with three swappable tops to accommodate different types of flowers, won the Best Consumer Product category for designers Vij5 at the Dutch Design Awards on Saturday. More »

October 18th, 2009

Singapore designers Ministry of Design have completed an office interior for an advertising agency that features a drawing of the company’s founder spread across the walls and floor, wielding a scaled-up model of a pencil. More »

October 18th, 2009

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Dutch Design Week 09: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bas van der Veer has won the prize for best project at the school’s Graduation Galleries exhibition, which opened in Eindhoven yesterday. More »

October 18th, 2009

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Dutch Design Week 09: Merry-go-round, a museum cloakroom where coats and possessions are suspended from the ceiling on a pulley system, has won the overall prize for the best Dutch design project at the Dutch Design Awards 2009. More »

October 18th, 2009

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Maggie’s Centre, a cancer care centre in London designed by architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, has won the RIBA Stirling Prize for the best building designed by a British architect. More »

October 18th, 2009

New York practice Alexander Gorlin Architects have completed the interior of a summer house on Long Island, New York. More »

October 18th, 2009

British designer Anthony Leyland launched a collection of tables made of folded steel at Designersblock in London last month. More »

October 17th, 2009

Dutch designer Bo Reudler presents new pieces in his collection of objects made from tree branches at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, which opens today. More »

October 17th, 2009

Polish Design Season: here’s another Polish design classic. At Tent London last month designer Piotr Stolarski of Warsaw studio Gogo exhibited clock mechanisms embedded in a wooden plank so that consumers saw off however many they need. More »

October 16th, 2009

Students of the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany have won the Solar Decathlon competition to design an energy-efficient solar-powered house. More »

October 16th, 2009

Polish Design Season: here’s a Polish design classic. Agnieszka Lasota’s lamp design is inspired by the Polish tradition of hanging a wreath on the roof of a building to mark the completion of its construction. More »

October 16th, 2009

Studio Arne Quinze have designed theatre seating for the newly-opened Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre by REX and OMA (see our previous story) in Dallas, USA. More »

October 16th, 2009

Designers StokkeAustad presented a cantilevered bench with a concrete base at an exhibition called Norwegian Prototypes  during the London Design Festival last month. More »

October 16th, 2009

Architects Foster + Partners have designed a dining table for Italian design brand Molteni&C. More »