Design

London-based ecoLogicStudio is an architectural and urban design practice specialized in environmental design, urban self-sufficiency and building integrated nature. One of their newest project installations is the urban curtain for Climate-KIC, the EU's most prominent climate innovation initiative. The curtain is called Photo.Synth.Etica and was built to capture CO2 from the atmosphere.

Hugo Livet, Paris-based artist and designer, made a surprise discovery by NASA to his newest inspiration. He imagined broken off ice-chunks as his raw material to digitally create geometric sculptures, capturing the beautiful structure of those icy giants.

When you talk to Christophe, you soon realize that he doesn’t waste time, which you can also notice in his art and and products. Not content to wait for manufacturing tools and companies to meet his ideas, the industrial designer is part of a new generation of creatives who develop their own production processes. We sat down with Christophe to talk with him about his career, his passion for good products and much more.

At a 400-year old ruin in the little village of kKgatika on the island of Paxos, German artist duo Quintessenz used over 120 shades of color to create the illusion of digital pixels.

American sculptor Ken Kelleher is specialized in the creation of large scale digital sculptures around the world. Digital works are set into real landscapes like streets, galleries or small places, and the result seems incredibly real.

Cool Shit strikes again! In their latest work, you can explore the inside of the mind of R&B musician Bobby Brown, who was once married to Whitney Houston.

At this year’s Forward festival in Munich and Hamburg, Forward and fritz-kola launched an open call for black and white posters. Out of numerous submissions, we selected 10 that were presented at the festival venues.

From the 11th to the 15th of July 2018 an unusual sight presented itself to New Yorkers at the Brookfield Place. Jason Hackenwerth’s exhibition “Animal Soul” stunned children as well as adults.

This week, we visited the “100 Beste Plakate” exhibition at the MAK, the museum for applied arts in Vienna. We know that 100 posters are just too much. That's why we guide you through the highlights of the exhibition.

In 2017, the furniture retailer MADE.com started an exciting new project named TalentLab. The crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platform gives young and emerging designers the chance to see their prototypes realized in large-scale production. We had the chance to get to know Romain Deberle, Shan Penghao and Russel Jarvis, who participated in the first MADE TalentLab collection.  

At this year’s Forward Festival in Vienna and Zurich Onlineprinters and Forward launched an open call for posters focusing on the 2018 festival topic "Construct - Deconstruct." Out of numerous applications we selected 10 posters that were exhibited at the festival venues.

So…what’s in it for me, Adobe XD? Is it free? Yes it is! Just recently, the May update for Adobe XD has been released with a big bang: introducing the new Starter plan, you can now work with Adobe XD fast, easy – and for free!

The Scottish design director Ruth Wassermann runs one of the most intriguing platforms for budding designers in the moment. She is the head of design of MADE's new crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platform TalentLab, where young designers can submit projects that they would like to see realized. We had the chance to sit down with Ruth and talk with her about the idea behind TalentLab, the first collection and her vision for the future of living.

During the Milan Design Week the city in Northern Italy is in a state of emergency. Every year, the world's largest furniture fair and countless exhibitions, installations and design events attract interior fans and design enthusiasts from around the world to Milan. The industrial designer Rainer Mutsch was there this year and summarized the latest trends of the Milan Design Week 2018 for us.

MADE started its crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platform TalentLAB at the end of 2017, asking young and emerging designers to submit projects that they would like to see realized. Designers upload their proposals to the website. MADE then curates collections from these designs and the products that prove most popular and will get funding, will be put into production.  We sat down with three designers, who participate in the first TalentLAB collection, and talked with them about their products, their background and much more.

Looking for a new role in architecture or design? Global jobs board Dezeen Jobs has selected five of the best opportunities this week, including positions in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.