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This month, Italian design brand Alessi opened a new flagship store in Milan on 14-16 Via Manzoni, designed by Spanish designer Marti Guixé . The location is in addition to the existing showroom, wh…

A unique exhibition held at The Gopher Hole as part of the London Design Festival will showcase an auction room that is actually up for auction. The Auction Room by Mariana Pestana & Designersb…

Christian Jackson has created a series of fifteen posters depicting timeless children's stories using minimalist imagery. Contrary to the bright colors and playful aesthetic typically associat…

Russell Hobbs press preview, autumn/winter 2011/12 Cooking demonstrations have been widely seen by WGSN-homebuildlife's retail team at the press events this year; reflecting the growing trend …

MyBlockNYC.com is New York City’s first interactive video map. Users can upload footage taken from their cell phones and cameras that correspond to particular blocks throughout the city. The website…

Augmented (hyper) Reality: Augmented City 3D by Keiichi Matsuda at Talk To Me 'Talk to Me: Design and the communication between people and objects' opened this week at the Museum of Modern A…

Published to coincide with the Design Museum's exhibition of the same name ( see our previous post ), Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern ( Black Dog Publishing , 2011) provides a thorough ret…

The Big Swim (2011) by Tine Bech at Camberwell Leisure Centre; photo by Nicolai Amter Last weekend, London celebrated one year until the 2012 Olympic Games with special events and exhibitions featuri…

Interiors, Joanna Lamb Australian painter Joanna Lamb has launched a series of stylised paintings – of scenes taken from pages of real estate brochures – rendered in blocks of colour along with her …

CAPTURED: THE EXPERIENCE FILM from MADE Blog on Vimeo . Graphic designer Sven Völker and machine artist Nils Völker teamed up to create this mesmerising installation for Berlin-based design bureau …

In collaboration with chemical company BASF , German designer Werner Aisslinger has created the Hemp Chair. Inspired by a technique used by the automotive industry, the manufacturing of the chair us…

Oh Joy! Oh Joy ! is one of the most established design blogs out there, founded by graphic designer Joy Deangdeelert Cho back in 2005 and now read by upwards of 18,000 people each day. WGSN-homebuild…

San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART as it's known to locals, has selected DesignworksUSA , the design consultancy and subsidiary of BMW Group , to re-design the city's trainc…

CUB- Compact Urban Bump Car (2011) Ayelet Fishnam, courtesy of Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem The Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem recently held their annual end-of-the-year exhibition for…

Working At Night (2005) © David Dawson, courtesy of Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert The art world last week paid tribute to Lucian Freud , who died on Wednesday 20th July aged 88. The figurative painter was …

New concept store Konzepp is designed to create a community among Hong Kong's design aficionados. Its founders, renowned Hong Kong film producer and artist manager Willie Chan and designer Geof…

Lavida shelves and boxes at Furnitex 2011, Melbourne WGSN-homebuildlife reports live from Furnitex in Melbourne, Australia, highlighting the three emerging trends from the show: Industrial lighting:…

London department store Liberty are to host a sewing school this September to celebrate the launch of the Liberty Book of Home Sewing. In one of two classes, Nicole Wilson of needlecraft brand Coats…

Nousaku at Gyre, Tokyo; image courtesy of Shin Suzuki Tokyo's Gyre shopping centre has collaborated with traditional Japanese artisan studio Nousaku to create an installation-cum-exhibition di…

Here's a sneak preview of the A Range, the first collection by London-based design brand ByAlex , which will launch this September. The range comprises a stool, coat stand and side table, each of…

The InterCity 125, designed by Kenneth Grange in 1976 The Design Museum 's latest exhibition, which opened to the public yesterday, celebrates the career of Kenneth Grange - an industrial design…