SINGAPORE, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Themed "Universal Design in Public Places" this year, Singapore Universal Design Week kicked off on Wednesday, with the launch of the country's first Univer......
Italian brands create "too many products that look the same", says Giulio Cappellini, whose furniture company is making a comeback under new owner Haworth (+ slideshow).
......
Inside 2016: a converted shophouse, a 1950s-style burger restaurant and a monochrome fashion boutique are among the projects shortlisted for the Inside Awards 2016.
......
Shanghai studio XL-Muse has used black mirrored flooring and arched shelves to create a tunnel of books inside a Chinese store.
The shelving reaches to the ceiling in the c......
June 29, 2016
Montreal (Canada) – The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) has revealed its new brand identity today, on World Industrial Design Day. ......
30 June 2016
Creative Industries Federation is organising a series of emergency sessions to prepare the UK's design sector for Brexit, saying "if it is going to happen, we need ......
28 June 2016
Uncertainty following the Brexit vote could prove "almost terminal" for small architecture design firms in the UK, according to a consultant who advises creative bus......
27 June 2016
Designer Nelly Ben Hayoun, who is urging fellow creatives to join a demonstration in central London tomorrow, which has been organised to express "anger at the whole......
25 June 2016
Irish Design 2015, Karen Hennessy of the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland reflects on the achievements of the initiative, which promoted the work of Iris......
June 8
Ikea's annual Democratic Design Day event in Älmhult, Sweden, for the latest news from the furniture giant.
The live stream will begin at 10.30am Älmhult time, which is 9.......
From 6 to 8 June 2016, UNESCO – in cooperation with the People’s Government of the Beijing Municipality and with the support of the National Commission of China for UNESCO – is organizing......
June 7
A team of architects in Chicago has proposed a house made of 3D-printedplastic and carbon-fibre panels wrapped around glazed walls.
The members of international ......
June 6
Organisers of the London Design Festival are discussing the fate of itsflagship crazy golf project for Trafalgar Square after a Kickstarter fundraising campai......
June 2
New technologies are driving a major rethink of office design, and interesting workplace interiors and furnituredominated this year's Clerkenwell Design ......
MAY 22
Clerkenwell Design Week 2016: with Clerkenwell Design Week just around the corner, Dezeen reporter Alice Morby has picked out the things to look forward to, including......
5 - 29 May 2016
2016 World Eco-Friendly Design Exhibition, Korea is a comprehensive event to look into the current environmental crisis and envision how design allows human to co-exis......
May 20
Taxi app Uber is the latest company to explore driverless car technology, confirming it is testing a self-navigating vehicle that could force its drivers out of......
May 15
NYCXDESIGN 2016: Chinese designer Zhoujie Zhang has created a series ofmirrors, using the results of computer algorithms based on the natural movements of water......
May 14-17
Shanghai and New York, two major international metropolis of East and West, the two countries an important economic center, innovative spirit, inclusive and open, be tole......
May 3-17
NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s official citywide celebration of design will return Tuesday, May 3rd – Tuesday, May 17th. Spanning all disciplines of design, NYCxDESIGN create......
3 May 2016
With NYCxDESIGN starts from May 3-17, one of the key figures behind the design fair and the senior vice president of marketing at the New York City Economic Development ......
5 May 2016
Moshe Safdie, Bruce Mau and Studio O+A are among the 11 winners of this year's National Design Awards, given annually by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Des......
29 April 2016
From 3 to 15 May 2016, artists from the Centre for media arts Perte de Signal of the Creative City of Montreal (Design) will be collaborating with artists from the ......
3 May 2016
this was a bumper year for the Salone del Mobile, with a record-breaking number of visitors. Dezeen editor Anna Winston rounds up some of the best product laun......
Shanghai Disney Resort on Friday began a kind of soft launch ahead of its official opening on June 16.
"The trial operations period allows cast members to get ready for our first o......
19 April 2016
A prototype packaging product made from seaweed instead of plastic has been named as the Grand Prix winner of this year'sLexus Design Award for ......
April 20, 2016
From pastel plastic bunny chairs at about £70 each from qeeboo.com to £30,000 hand-painted folksy limited-edition fridges by Smeg for Dolce & Gabbana, there were p......
8 April 2016
Tokyo 2020 Olympics has unveiled a shortlist of four new logo designs. A new international design competition was launched late last year to design the logo......
APRIL 1, 2016
The first 9 Creative Cities, that have joined the Network from 2004 and 2006, have submitted their Membership Monitoring Reports. Discover the main achieve......
30 March 2016
Blending different styles and eras is all the rage in design. Eclectic mixes can be particularly powerful when they result from close collaborations between two peopl......
30 March 2016
Essen (Germany) - Manufacturers and designers entered a record number of around 5,200 innovations in the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2016. The jury was also bigger th......
March 10- 13 2016
SINGAPORE: The Singapore Design Week is back and it will not only serve to showcase designs by emerging talents - this year's edition is also trying to get the pu......
03/15/2016
“Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale” is an European project, exploring the way in which the inhabitants reclaim the constantly evolving contemporary city, through expe......
March 8 – 20, 2016
SDW returns in its second year with over 60 new events, activities and trade shows.
Organised by the DesignSingapore Council,
Singapore Design Week (SDW) will t......
12 March 2016
Held by the Kopula Collective on 12 March in Montreal, the first edition of Nordicité 2016 – Design and Sustainability in a Northern context symposium – s......
Mar 15, 2016
Dubai and Shanghai both agreed to collaborate with regards to design knowledge exchange and bolstering inter-city relations on Monday, as reported by the Xinhua N......
08 March 2016
Mexico City (Mexico) – Mexico City has now officially joined the network of World Design Capital cities following a signing ceremony held at the Museum of the Ci......
12 March
First went checkers, then fell chess. Now, a computer program has defeated the world's top player in the ancient east Asian board game of Go — a major milestone for ......
03/10/2017
Enghien-les-Bains (France), designated as a UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts in 2013, has been chosen by the member cities to host the Network’s 11th Annual Mee......
03/03/2016
Hong Kong will further support and nurture innovation, start-ups and creative industries to maintain competitive edge under the "new economic order," Financial Sec......
05/03/2016
Design Days Dubai has grown from five regional designers in the first edition, to more than 50 presenting in March. The fifth fair, taking place from March 14 thr......
05/02/2016
From 2 to 8 May 2016, Kaunas City of Design will organizing the 2016 Design Week on the theme of “Connections” which highlights the impact that design can h......
Design / 25 Feb 2016 / By Christopher Stocks
This year’s Ambiente design fair in Frankfurt – which ran from 12–16 February – was the biggest to date, with aroun......
01/27/2016
Since its designation in 2006 as a Creative City of Design, Montreal distinguished itself in establishing cooperation between and with UNESCO Creative Cities, both wit......
02/25/2016
In spring 2015, Soichiro Kimura, director of the Japanese association of Nagoya “Arts Bridge Cities” (ABC), initiates the project “Utopia in the Cloud” thanks to the U......
Design duo Barber & Osgerby have said they "never accept" standard royalties from the brands they work for and always push for a better deal.
Speaking to Dezeen ......
18 February 2016
Supermarket receipts could introduce graphics showing nutritional information to help solve the "obesity epidemic", proposes UK designer Hayden Peek.
......
20 to 28 February 2016
This year's Munich Creative Business Week will include a range of design-led events for industry professionals and the public across th......
Feb 7
A team from the University of Colorado Boulder have used 3D printing to create tactile versions of famous books for visually impaired children.
Tom ......
Feb 8
Stockholm Furniture Fair takes place from 9 to 13 February 2016. Projects on show include mirrors with indented leather frames, rugs designed for a Texas art ......
Singapore has long been considered an up-and-coming destination for design professionals and enthusiasts— its recent UNESCO Creative City of Design accolade bears testimony to its standin......
January 30, 2016
While working on my next book, Un-kill Creativity, I reviewed all the work done towards my doctoral dissertation, From Startup to Maturity an......
February 1, 2016
South Korea's Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning last Wednesday laid out a vision for this year dubbed "Future Wealth Business Plan 2016", which includes ......
The Prime Minister has lent his support to a new initiative to help creative start-ups
'From Asia to America, they’re dancing to our music, watching our films and wearing our de......
20 January 2016
A record-breaking total of 106 skyscrapers over 200 metres tall were completed in 2015, and even more are predicted for 2016, according to new industry research. ......
20 January 2016
24-kilometre-long stretch of disused Singapore railway into a Creative High Line-esque park that extends across the entire island.
The......
John Kampfner, chief executive of CIF, said that – despite a good autumn statement settlement for the arts – he was worried about cuts to local authority spending on culture and the “margin......
12 January 2016
Montreal (Canada) - The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) is pleased to announce the finalists (in alphabetical order) for the 201......
On 3 December 2015, CISAC unveiled a new global study
on the economic and social contribution of Cultural and Creative Industries
(CCI) to the world economy.
......
January 10, 2016
2015 was a big year for cultural and creative industries in Croatia. For the first time, they have joined all of their sub-sectors (from architecture, design, gaming to musi......
1 Jan, 2016
With the final funded year of the Design For Europe ahead, we thought we’d share what we’ve achieved so far, and our ambitions for the future.
......
The Design Economy reveals for the first time the major contribution design makes to the UK. In this post Stephen Miller uses an interactive map to examine the value of design t......
1 Jan, 2016
Arthritis Research UK is a charity which conducts research into the cause, treatment and cure of arthritis, as well as providing information on how to maintain hea......
06 January 2016
Taipei (Taiwan, Chinese Taipei) – The city of Taipei officially kicked off their World Design Capital® (WDC) year on 31 December with an elaborate cerem......
On 30 October to 8
November the Nordic Consulates General in Shanghai presented the Nordic Design
and Innovation Week (NDIW) 2015. This was the third year the Nordic countries
came tog......
Singapore been designated a
UNESCO Creative City of Design, the Singapore Government announced on Friday
(Dec 11). It is one of the first two ASEAN cities to get the designation.
Singa......
Budapest has been named as a member of
UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network after an application submitted by creative
agency Design Terminal succeeded. The Hungarian capital is the......
The hostile grey city that once shunned outsiders is now
pitching itself against the established heavyweights as one of the world's
foremost international addresses.
17 De......
17 December 2015
(See Above Para) Property developer SOHO already has
four such centres under its 3Q brand in the city, and plans for a rapid
expansion across China. Fro......
13 December 2015, a meeting in Beijing will launched the International Center for Creativity and Sustainable Development (ICCSD).
On November 2015, the 38th session of th......
Turin is often left off travelers’ lists of
Italian cities to visit. But this northern charmer has plenty to offer. Turin has long been synonymous, for better
or for worse, with Fiat......
AT Pohjoisesplanadi 25 in Helsinki, a sign on the wall explains that the shop you’re in is more than a place to pick up some special souvenirs.
It says the floor you’re s......
12/11/2015
UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, has announced the
designation of 47 cities from 33 countries as new members of the UNESCO
Creative Cities Network. The resu......
2015 IFFT/Interior Lifestyle Living successfully held in Tokyo Big Sight. The fair welcomes a record-high 705 exhibitors (473 domestic, 232 overseas) from 32 countries/regions......
A DESIGN team from Austria stood out among 122 young designers or teams from 23 cities around the world that submitted
their design entries for an international design award in Shenzhen,......
AMBS
Architects has proposed a 1,152-metre-tall skyscraper for Iraq's Basra Province, which would surpass Jeddah's Kingdom Tower and Dubai'sBurj Khalifa to ......
For decades,
aging was a predictable process. People put in their time and retired at age
65. Many of them downsized or moved to retirement communities. As their bodies
started ......
20 November 2015
A portable circuit-board
printer that could dramatically reduce prototyping and production time for
designers has been awarded the 2015 international ......
04 November
2015
Gwangju (South Korea) - Seven
international organisations have agreed to work together to address global
social and environmental problems through des......
24 October- 3 November, 2015
TOKYO DESIGN
WEEK, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, has developed into an
international design event that gathers excellent architect......
19 October 2015
Gwangju (South Korea) – At its 29th General Assembly, the International Council of Societies of
Industrial Design (Icsid) announced that Mexico City has been de......
22 October
2015
the
UK's Design Council has published research that reveals how many
billions of pounds the country's design industry generates each year.
......
13 October 2015
Montreal (Canada) – The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design
(Icsid) has announced a shortlist of six projects for the World Design Imp......
17-25 October, 2015
In October
of each year, Dutch Design Week (DDW) takes place in Eindhoven. The biggest
design event in Northern Europe presents work and ideas of more th......
July 13th, 2015
(Hong Kong, 13 Jul
2015) Since its inauguration in February, Happy "D" - a
community outreach programme that brings happiness and inspires creativity
through communit......
July 8th
This afternoon,
Mr. Chen Yuehua, Deputy Director of Shanghai Cultural & Creative Industry
Leading Group Office, Counsel of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and
Inform......
July 6th, 2015 / Peter Geoghegan
IN a cold, windowless unit in an industrial estate 10 minutes’ walk from
Dundee city centre, a young man in paint-splattered overalls is busy affi......
06 July 2015
London (United Kingdom) - The Department
for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) figures published last month revealed
employment within the UK's creative industries is increasing......
July
02 2015, by Marcella Segre
Adopting state-of-the-art
environmental standards and a scientific, contemporary interpretative approach,
Singapore’s Lee Kong Chian Natural......
1 July 2015
Dezeen promotion: explore Knoll's collection of adaptable office furniture in this interactive
slideshow, which features new pieces by New York stu......
23 June 2015
Helsinki (Finland) -
The Guggenheim
Helsinki Design Competition, which began in June 2014 and generated a
record-making 1,715 submissions from ......
June
11, 2015 BY Rebecca Bedrossian
On the evening of June 4, over 2,500 people
gathered at Pier 27 for the start of SF Design Week. The impressive cruise ship
termin......
20 JUN 2015 /BY ROSA BERTOL
For Design Miami/ Basel's 10th edition, the
pioneering fair returned to its Herzog & de Meuron-designed fairgrounds,
once again offering an excellen......
May 30th
Representatives from more than 69 cities around the world participating in a UNESCO meeting in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, extends to deepen exchanges......
May 16th
The Shanghai designer
delegations visited the New York Design Center and International Contemporary
Furniture Fair(ICFF), one of the most impacted modern furni......
May 14th
(New
York) the designer representative groups of
“New York-Shanghai Creative Design Dialogue” visit the Parsons School,
one of the world leading creat......
May 13th
(New York), across half of the planet, the “New York-Shanghai
Creative Design Dialogue” came to represent at the modern and fashion city capital New York. Wit......
MAY 8–19, 2015
NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s official annual citywide celebration of design,
will take place this year from Friday, May 8, to Tuesday, May 19. Now in its
third year......
MAY 1. – 31, 2015
May 2015 is once
more focused on Designmonat Graz. Designers from all disciplines are in the
centre of attention for the whole month. The UNESCO city of design G......
Japanese studio Nendo has surrounded a lounge area with a
cascade of 2,000 chocolate-coloured pipes for an installation at this
year's Maison&Objet trade fair.
......
Inaugurated on March 11th 2015, the 9th
Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne will take place in Saint-Etienne
(France) from March 12th to April 12th 2015.The theme of this editio......
Global patent filings extended a run of strong annual increases in 2013,
underpinned by double-digit growth in China where about a third of the world’s
2.6 million patent applications w......
Mayor Yang Xiong
The
annual meeting of the Shanghai People’s Congress gets under way at the Shanghai
Expo Center. Mayor Yang Xiong told lawmakers and political advi......
PUSU established in Shanghai in 2011,
is engaging in creating Chinese furnishing aesthetics with contemporary scholar
living style with original creation design spirit. PUSU will continuously
de......
On January 6th, 2015 ,the International Council of Societies for Industrial Design (Icsid)
launched its call for EOIs to host its 30th General Assembly (GA) in 2017. As
an international no......
From Shanghai International Fashion Federation:
The 2015 fashion calendar is for the reference of friends from fashion
industry and anyone who loves fashion.
Januar......
After serving the international design
community for more than half a century, Icograda has formally changed its name
to better reflect its mission and activities and is now ico-D, the
......
Paris
(France) -
UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, designated 28 cities from 19 countries,
as new members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
Launched i......
International Creative Cities Advisory
Board is a key part of the International Creative Cities Think Tank. It
consists of world renowned institutions, experts and eminent personnel in th......
International Creative Cities
Think Tank (hereafter, Think Tank), established in 2013, under the direction of
Shanghai Cultural & Creative Industry Leading Group Office and Shanghai......
Ms. Panjin, Vice Secretary General of Shanghai Promotion Center for City of Design
On June 4, sponsored by Shanghai Promotion
Center for City of Design, "2015 Shanghai - New York Design Creative
dialogue" Salon was successfully held at CAC Media Center. The Event
extends its theme” Design:Aspiration of Business Vitality” with the New York
delegations, entrepreneurs and designer representatives gathering to share
innovative ideas, exchange experience as well as discuss the vision of future collaborations.
Ms. Panjin, Vice Secretary General of Shanghai Promotion Center for City of
Design presented the activity.
Mr. Dillion Zhang, founder of CMC Media Center
Mr. Rodolfo Segrera, teacher from Parsons school
Mr. Liu lu, Crystal Digital Technology
Mr. Yang Zhongwei, 800show Enterprise Management
The participants shared the experience and gave
highly regarded comments on......
