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A rocking horse and a basketball hoop are among the items that designers have reimagined for this London Design Festival exhibition, which includes pieces from 2LG Studio, Pearson Lloyd and more. Unbroken‘s curator, designer Francesco Feliziani, asked seven fellow creatives to salvage something destined for landfill and transform it into a functional design piece. In […]

Demonstrations of a new glass block type and silicone pottery featured at the Detroit Warehouse: Art and Design Fair show during Detroit Month of Design in a post-industrial building. Sited in a Boyer Campbell Building, a former automotive supply building that anchors the Detroit Design District, the exhibition featured work made by local creators. An […]

Design agency Pentagram has created a new city logo for Austin, Texas, USA composed of green and blue arches representative of the surrounding landscape, which was reportedly leaked early and has drawn criticism. The logo is part of a larger $1.1 million rebranding effort by the city of Austin to establish a consolidated graphic identity […]

Designer Zixuan Luo has been awarded third place in Dezeen and Bentley‘s Radical Renewal Competition for her proposal to retrofit Chicago‘s Richard J Daley Center with passive climate systems while retaining its facade. Called Between Skin and Bone, Luo‘s proposal focuses on the Richard J Daley Center in downtown Chicago, proposing to retain its facade […]

In the wake of last week’s London Design Festival, the Dezeen team has selected their 10 favourite products on show at the city-wide event, including a patchwork timber rocking chair and a lampshade made from old sandpaper. Photo courtesy of Britney Lee Gem Set by Britney Lee chosen by Jennifer Hahn, design and environment editor […]

Climbing ropes, tall grass and a balloon pump were among the things Norwegian designers used to modify USM Haller‘s famous modular furniture for an exhibition at Designers’ Saturday in Oslo. For USM Haller Re-Framed, Martin A Andersen tasked himself and nine other designers with putting their own twist on the Swiss brand‘s classic chrome-plated, steel-frame […]

British furniture maker Ercol and Max Radford Gallery commissioned six of the capital’s designers to create imaginative chairs, tables, cabinets, and more with timber, at this exhibition for London Design Festival. The six London-based designers – Andu Masebo, Eddie Olin, Joe Armitage, Jaclyn Pappalardo, Isabel Alonso and Lewis Kemmenoe – were all encouraged to craft […]

Passenger handles from a defunct Japanese train line stack up to form this minimalist ring-shaped lamp by design studio Akasaki & Vanhuyse. London-based Akasaki & Vanhuyse procured around 1,400 resin handles from Tokyo’s Tokyu 8500 trains, which were retired in 2023, to create a limited run of 150 WA lamps. As resin is less easily […]