Bombay Sapphire competition

The 2008 Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition is upon us and this year there’s a bit of a twist.…

29 August 2008

Books: Inspiration

Inspiration is an exercise is glowing good taste. Conran's latest monograph is a lavish romp through…

Doll's house by Kathy Osborn

Graphic artist and illustrator Kathy Osborn, a self-confessed doll's house nut, has created a modernist…

22 August 2008

Maarten Baas exhibition, Shanghai

Maarten Baas is something of a bad boy amongst designers, notorious for ripping up the rules to make…

RCA student design

We always like to keep a close eye on the creative happenings over at London’s Royal College of Art,…

18 July 2008

Nymphenburg Couture Edition

Not ones to let the gravitas of a 260-year heritage stand in the way of contemporary trends, German porcelain…

New Designers 2008, London

Even the biggest names in modern design were once struggling unknowns with nothing but talent, perseverance,…

2 July 2008

Jens Risom exhibition, London

Very few designers have two large-scale exhibitions, in consecutive years, in the same city. But Jens…

Designers of the Future: videos

One of the highlights of this year’s Design Miami/Basel was the expansion of the Designer of the Future…

13 June 2008

Phillips de Pury sale, NYC

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Not an expression heard often in the upper echelons of the design world…

11 June 2008

Prototypes and Experiments

Prototypes have a very particular appeal. More often a starting point or experiment than a concrete step…

Strativarious, London

Former curator at the Design Museum, Libby Sellers is fast making a name for herself on the global design…

ICFF New York round-up

It is a universal truth about ICFF that every time it’s on, it’s impossible to think of a time that it…

22 May 2008