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Maeutica Creates Branding for Tiziano
Maeutica has developed the brand concept for Tiziano café & pastry shop chain.
PAVE Student Design Competition
The Planning & Visual Education Partnership (PAVE) has launched its annual Student Design Competition. This annual competition, now in its 22nd year, is geared toward college-level students involved in retail design and planning, visual merchandising, interior design, and branding programs.
Kinnersley Kent Design Creates Scottish Flagship Store for East India Company
Kinnersley Kent Design has designed the East India Company's flagship store on Edinburgh's George Street, the Scottish capital's most prestigious shopping address.
New London Awards 2016 Winners Announced
New London Architecture has announced the winners of its 2016 New London Awards. The annual awards celebrate the best architecture and development recently completed or in design across the capital.
Graphis Letterhead 8: Call for Entries
The eight Graphis Letterhead is now open for entries. The competition aims to find the best stationery designs that seamlessly combine art and function to visually represent a client's identity.
FLOS OK Lamp Awarded Compasso d'Oro Prize
FLOS was awarded the prestigious Compasso d'Oro prize for its OK lamp by Konstantin Grcic, as "an object that presents the evolution of an icon while maintaining its traditional elegance."
Arcsine Designs Teleféric's First U.S. Location
Seeking to open its first U.S. location in Walnut Creek, California, Teleféric Barcelona tasked Arcsine with creating an inviting space that adapted the restaurant's concept of art, culture and authentic Spanish cuisine for the California market.
Viewfinders: Thoughts on Visual Design Research
Design, User and UX research too often happens through user testing and focus groups in relatively sterile lab-like environments that result in lengthy written or numerical reports.
ÉTS Student House by Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes
Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes recently completed the Maison des étudiants de l'École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), a signature building which enhances an entire neighborhood in the Griffintown district.
Teknion Around Task Chair by Justus Kolberg
Teknion has unveiled its new Around Task Chair at NeoCon 2016. Designed by Justus Kolberg, Around Chair boasts a number of hidden innovations - including a flexible membrane, weight-balancing synchro-tilt mechanism, and Quick Snap Concept arms & back.
Nescafé Azera and Twelve Tap Into Young Design Talent to Launch Range of Iconic Tins
TWELVE has developed a multichannel campaign for Nescafé Azera, with a range of iconic and desirable limited edition tins, created in collaboration with top emerging design talent from the University for the Creative Arts.
Seymourpowell Creates New Branding and Packaging for Purina Cat Chow
Seymourpowell has created the new branding and packaging for premium cat food, Purina Cat Chow.
House Housing: An Untimely History of Architecture and Real Estate
In 1939, the Federal Housing Administration declined to insure a mortgage for one of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses in East Lansing, Michigan. The house's low ceilings and open interior spaces were considered too risky an investment.
Budapest Design Map 2016
Budapest Design Week has released the 4th edition of Budapest Design Map - in both print and online format.
X-CAT DISC Designed by Designworks
Designworks and Puma have unveiled X-CAT DISC, an innovative new shoe inspired by the BMW GINA Light Visionary Model: a concept car with a seamless, flexible, fabric outer shell stretched over a movable substructure, whose functions were only enabled when actually needed.
A Maker's Field Guide to Texture and Color
Mohawk has released a comprehensive new printed tool designed to serve as a hands-on resource for the creative community.
Manifesto Series Part II: In Our Time - The Sharing Movement
Manifesto Series: In Our Time - The Sharing Movement, is a two-part series presented by Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Minimal Futurism Jewelry Collection by Mino Creations
Minimal Futurism is a collection of fashion jewelry from Mino Creations that combine the features of the minimal aesthetic and the crisp, bold aspects of the Futurism.
DesignLSM Designs Via Carluccio's Tottenham Court Road
DesignLSM have recently completed the interior design for Via Carluccio's in Tottenham Court Road.
From Museums to Beyond: SEGD's 2016 Exhibition & Experience Design Event
Experiences like museum exhibitions are evolving rapidly. People are experiencing dynamic installations inside traditional museums, within corporate and community visitor centers, inside sports venues and even on the streets of our cities.
Oishii Creates What's Next for PromaxBDA: The Conference 2016
Oishii Creative developed a branding package for the PromaxBDA 2016 Conference. Just as in 2014, Oishii was tasked with providing digital, motion and print collateral for The Conference.
Hotels of the Future: Radical Innovation Award Finalists Announced
Out of dozens of submissions from 20+ countries, Radical Innovation has selected finalists in this year's competition: Driftscape by HOK (Toronto), Nest Inn by MM Architects (Paris), and Space View Inn by Juan Orduz (student at UNLV).
Spaces for Innovation: The Design and Science of Inspiring Environments
Frame Publishers' new title, Spaces for Innovation: The Design and Science of Inspiring Environments, takes readers on a journey through the workspace-change process.
Construction Climate Talks Episode 5: Reducing Carbon Footprint in Cities
Since November 2015, the web TV series Construction Climate Talks has aired four episodes.
Kokuyo Design Award 2016
The 2016 Kokuyo Design Award is now open for entries. The competition was established in 2002, inviting innovative and ingenious ideas that will contribute to the creation of user-oriented products.
The Sydney Park Water Re-Use Project Takes Out the 2016 MAAS Design Award
The Sydney Park Water Re-Use Project has won the 2016 Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Design Award.
Cirkus Pops and Twists with Paddle Pop
Mullen Lowe Indonesia recently approached Cirkus to be involved in Unilever's brand new global campaign for Paddle Pop.
Hybrid Design Office by Terry&Terry Architecture
This project by Terry&Terry Architecture houses a growing graphic/product design office within an existing brick building located in the Jackson square historic district.
Odin Chair by Jamie McLellan
Odin Chair started life as a commission in 2010 by Hong Kong based Odin Properties. Jamie McLellan was asked to design a chair for a series of boutique alpine properties in Niseko, Japan.
R16 by Waarmakers: Packaging Turns Into LED Luminary
Designed by Waarmakers, R16 is a cardboard LED tube light fixture, which is both packaging and fixture at the same time.
Poppin Privacy Panel
Poppin has unveiled its Series A Privacy Panel, an easily applied and affordably priced design solution for shared workspaces.
Zoning New York Scavenger Hunt
In July 1916, New York became the first American city to adopt a radical zoning resolution to control the height, bulk, and use of its buildings, an act so unprecedented that its authors were not even sure it was legal. In the century since, zoning has become the city's most potent instrument for shaping its future.
Fun Factory Introduces a Special Edition Bag Designed by Karim Rashid
Fun Factory has unveiled an exclusive, limited-edition bag created with Karim Rashid.
Studio Ashby Designs Interiors at Soho 13
Studio Ashby has designed the interiors of a Soho apartment, encompassing both character and style.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Wins ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Awards
The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and the American Library Association have announced Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as the Best of Competition winner of the 2016 Library Interior Design Awards for the project Chicago Public Library, Chinatown Branch.
Trollbäck + Company Creates 2016 Next Awards Show Opener
Trollbäck + Company (T+Co) created the 2016 AICP Next Awards Show opener. The animated opener took audiences on an electrifying journey through a graphically and sonically stylized 3D world.
Archiprix International Ahmedabad 2017: Call for Entries
Archiprix International is a biennial competition and presents the world's best graduation project selected by universities from all over the world. The Archiprix International 2017 edition will take place in Ahmedabad, India and is organized in cooperation with CEPT university.
The Claude Bernard Overpass
DVVD recently completed the Claude Bernard Overpass, a linking structure on the Boulevard Périphérique between Paris and Aubervilliers.
Le Studio Luminaires
LumiGroup opened its first showroom in the heart of the Mile End district in Montreal.
2016 Pride Photo Award: Call for Entries
The deadline for the 2016 Pride Photo Award, an international competition about sexual and gender diversity, has been extended until July 5th at midnight.
Mercedes-Benz and JOI-Design Create the First Mercedes-Benz Living at Fraser Residences in London and Singapore
With picturesque views overlooking the private, two acre parkland of London's Stanhope Gardens, the exclusive collection of six spacious, elegant apartments within Fraser Suites Kensington was conceived and created in close cooperation between Mercedes-Benz Style, the manufacturer's product design division, and JOI-Design as part of a pilot project based on the Mercedes-Benz design philosophy.
Sharing Models: Manhattanisms
Sharing Models: Manhattanisms, on view at the Storefront for Art and Architecture from July 14, will feature 30 models by 30 international architects that represent various ways of reading, understanding, and analyzing the collective assets of urban life.
New Milanese Headquarters of Coca-Cola HBC Italia by Lombardini22
The new Milanese headquarters of Coca-Cola HBC Italia, the biggest bottling plant for 'The Coca-Cola Company' products in Italy, is a project that first began in 2013 and has experimented with every possible phase in the process of changing office spaces.
2016 Cradle to Cradle Challenge Winners
The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute has announced the winners of its 2016 Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge.
Be Original Americas Meets with U.S. Customs & Border Protection
On June 15, 2016, two representatives from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office and a special agent from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security gave a 60 minute in-depth presentation to Be Original Americas board members in Chicago, during NeoCon.
Blue Leaf's New Industrial Lounge Chair
Blue Leaf's new Industrial Lounge Chair balances dramatic scale with simple old school style for an effortlessly cool look your inner rockstar will love.
Keyn Chair Group by forpeople for Herman Miller
Herman Miller has partnered with London-based design company forpeople to create the Keyn Chair Group, a range of meeting and side chairs that offers responsive movement and immediate comfort for collaborative spaces.
The Pantone Cafe: Intersecting Dining and Design
For its second season, the Pantone Cafe - the most Instagrammable restaurant in the world - returns to Monaco.
Nook Residence by MU Architecture
MU Architecture recently completed Nook Residence, located in a quiet area of the Eastern Townships in Quebec. The residence sits in continuity with the landscape in which it is set.
The Smarties 2016
The 2016 Smarties competition is now open for entries. The competition is one of the biggest, worldwide celebrations of mobile marketing excellence and innovation, in categories ranging from Mobile Video to The Internet of Things, and so much more.
Design Bridge Bring Lyle's Black Treacle to New Audiences with Limited Edition Sticky Summer BBQ Tin
Design Bridge has created a limited edition summertime tin for Lyle's Black Treacle.
JOI-Design Creates Boutique Hotel, Restaurant & Bar at Former Fish Market
JOI-Design has recently completed the interior design for Hotel Am Fischmarkt, a 37-bedroom boutique hotel, restaurant and bar in Rheinberg, a picturesque destination in the popular Niederrhein region of Germany.
Making Space 2016
Making Space 2016 is an international award for excellence in the design of spaces for children and young people.
Type Hybrid: Typography in Multilingual Design
Increasingly globalized, the world is looking for a new-era language that can unite and identify with multiple cultures at once.
Iberville International Maritime Terminal and Alexandra Pier
Last April 25, the Montreal Port Authority (MPA) officially unveiled its plans for the restoration of Alexandra Pier and the Iberville International Passenger Terminal. The project is designed by Provencher_Roy.
2016 Graphis Annual Reports Competition
The 2016 Graphis Annual Reports Competition is still open for submissions. The competition features the top annual reports submitted from some of the best international design firms.
Roxane Gataud Named Winner of 2016 Catalyst Award
The Society of Typographic Aficionados has announced that Roxane Gataud of Paris, France will be the recipient of the 2016 SOTA Catalyst Award.
Opening the Edge: Reimagining Green Space at Wald Houses
Design Trust, in partnership with New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), is calling for applications for fellowships to create a prototype design for a lively public space at Wald Houses in the Lower East Side.
Adobe Unveils Significant Updates to Creative Cloud & Adobe Stock
Adobe has unveiled significant updates to Creative Cloud & Adobe Stock, including dramatic new features in Adobe's flagship applications, performance enhancements across Creative Cloud (CC) and exciting updates to Adobe Stock - including deeper integration within CC and the addition of an all-new Premium collection of high-quality stock content.
Universal Everything Creates 360 Degrees Weather Installation for London Collections Men
Universal Everything has designed an immersive presentation for travel luxury brand MCM for their Spring-Summer 17 capsule collection with Christopher Ræburn.
Spitfire Desk by Christopher Duffy
Duffy London has unveiled Spitfire, a majestic new desk, that merges the technical mechanical aluminium structure, into a beautifully simple piece of furniture.
B&B Studio Creates Brand Identity for Craft Soft Drinks Company Dalston's
B&B studio has created a new visual identity for the Dalston Cola Company. Handmade in East London, from 100 per cent natural and locally sourced ingredients, Dalston's tasked B&B with creating a solid brand proposition.
SCI-Arc and Habitat LA Complete Sustainable and Affordable Home for Local Veteran and Family
SCI-Arc has announced the completion of a new three bedroom, 2 ½ bath home designed by SCI-Arc students, in partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (Habitat LA), Los Angeles County 2nd District, General Motors Foundation and Bernards.
KUR Collection FW16: Dark Romance
KUR Collection has just launched its FW16 collection, Dark Romance. The ethically produced designs are created for the authentic, modern woman who loves to stand out.
Café Mollien by Mathieu Lehanneur
Located in the Denon Wing of the Louvre Museum, the Café Mollien reopens its doors after a one-month closure for remodeling.
B&B Studio Rebrands Just Bee
B&B studio has created the new brand identity and packaging for Just Bee, a natural spring water enriched with a single drop of honey.
Matteo Thun & Partners Designs the First NIVEA Shop
Matteo Thun & Partners has designed the first NIVEA shop. The project has been developed in a close dialogue with the international NIVEA team.
SAH Publication Awards 2016
The Society of Architectural Historians is accepting nominations for its 2017 Publication Awards. The program includes five awards that will be presented at the Society's 2017 Annual International Conference.
Nike 2016 Sport Sunglasses
Nike Vision, Nike's line of performance, lifestyle and optical eyewear, recently unveiled the 2016 Running Collection of sunglasses.
2016 Equity by Design Symposium
AIA San Francisco will hold its 2016 Equity by Design Symposium on October 29 at San Francisco Art Institute. This year's theme, "Equity by Design: Metrics, Meaning and Matrices," builds upon the last five years of advocacy and sets an exciting path for the next chapter of our journey towards equity in architecture.
2016 Taipei International Design Award
The 2016 Taipei International Design Award is now open for entries. Organized by Taipei City Government, the competition invites designers around the globe to create design works with commercial potential.
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Designs UC Davis Lecture Hall for the Future
The University of California, Davis held the groundbreaking ceremony for their newest and most advanced lecture hall this month.
Troika Creates Bolder, Contemporary Identity for Corus Entertainment
Troika recently created a new corporate brand for Corus Entertainment, reflective of the Canadian media giant's combined strengths and forward-looking strategy following its previously announced $2.65 billion acquisition of Shaw Media.
James Dyson Award 2016
The 2016 James Dyson Award is now open for entries. The competition provides university level design and engineering students with a platform to launch their ideas.
UXUS Designs New Tate Modern Retail Space
Designed by UXUS, the new store located within the Tate Modern's new extension aims to reinvent the concept of museum retail.
AMD Project Quantum: Liquid Cooled Virtual Reality PC
Mixer delivered groundbreaking industrial design, electronic product design and a revolutionary cooling system to demonstrate the blazing speed of AMD's latest Radeon graphics processors.
H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship 2016
The 2016 H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship is now open for applications. The fellowship will allow a recent graduate or emerging scholar to study by travel for one year.
The District Designs Brand Identity for Learig
The District recently designed the new brand identity for Learig. Experts in the entire end to end process of residential and commercial development, from planning to design to build and, inevitably, the financial wizardry that exists throughout, Learig have effectively prodded and poked every related nook and cranny in Cambridgeshire for a number of years.
Shenzhen Metro Changzhen Depot TOD Master Plan by Woods Bagot Hong Kong
Woods Bagot Hong Kong was appointed by Shenzhen Metro Group to deliver a master planning for Shenzhen Route 6 Chang Zhen Station and the architectural design for the depot and surrounding complex.
DesignLSM Creates Interiors for Sourced Market in Marylebone
DesignLSM has recently completed the interior design for Sourced Market in Marylebone; taking the original concept from their first site in St Pancras and creating a new destination market place, where customers can discover the fresh quality of locally and ethically sourced British produce.
Sichuan International Glass Art Factory & Innovation Centre
Urbanlogic recently designed the Sichuan International Glass Art Factory & Innovation Centre. The complex brings together studios & art production; an innovation, auctioning and event center; a hotel; and an exhibition space.
Liminal: An Adaptable Lighting Unit by CNVS
Created by Buşra Tunç for CNVS, Liminal is an adaptable lighting unit that can cater for multiple usage scenarios by transforming itself via its kinetic joints and adjustable lighting modules.
DOME by Odo Fioravanti for Pedrali
Pedrali has unveiled its new collection of seatings designed by Odo Fioravanti.
Source by Jaume Plensa
For the 375th anniversary of the City of Montréal, Jaume Plensa will create Source, a work of public art that will be installed at the future Bonaventure gateway to Montréal. The sculpture will be about 10 metres in height and will face the city.
Converge 2016
On September 20-21, the Converge 2016 will unite industrial designers, constructers, architects and product developers from all over the world in the Ruhr area.
Smart-Grid Living: Frey Architekten Unveils the Smart Green Tower
The Smart Green Tower is a 51-meter-high residential and commercial tower, which on account of its planned size, architecture and environmental configuration, is slated to become a flagship project in the area of innovative building-integrated energy systems.
CAFE+ Set to Disrupt Coffee Market
Slice Design recently created the branding and packaging for the new range of coffees from CAFE+.
In the Line of Fire Monograph by Studio Sonda
Studio Sonda recently designed "In the line of fire: the history of firefighting in Porec," a monograph that through its 254 pages brings a section of chronological history about voluntary and professional fire service in the Porec territory, from the 19th century to the present day, as well as a list of all firefighters being part of it.
Architecture at Zero 2016
The Architecture at Zero 2016 competition challenge is to create a zero net energy (ZNE) student housing project on the San Francisco State University campus.
Varoom 33: Collaborators
Bringing together individuals, networks and global brands across multimedia projects, the Collaborators issue of Varoom discovers the nuts and bolts of a successful children's book collaboration between writer and illustrator; design studio ManvsMachine's recent ambitious collaboration with Nike; the Fabulous Year 24 Group and how they brought the female sensibility to shōjo manga, and spotlights the key networks through which illustrators generate creative and emotional support.
Mixer Design Group Designs IoT Staples Easy Button
Mixer Design Group was recruited by T3 to help them design and engineer the Easy Button as a key component of the Staples Easy System IoT ordering platform.
2016 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture
In the natural world, adaptation is a competitive advantage. Yet the built environment is frequently characterized by rigid typologies and inflexible designs. How can buildings keep pace with changing cultures and contexts?
2nd Annual I Look Up Film Challenge
The 2nd annual I Look Up Film Challenge, organized in partnership with the AIA, is a documentary film competition. The contest aims to unite filmmakers and architects to shine a light on the unique and important contributions of architects around the country.
Mary Lane Provides a Contemporary, Sleek and Queensland Lifestyle to Residential Design in Brisbane
With vacant land in Brisbane's CBD somewhat of a rarity, an available block of land offered the team behind the Mary Lane project a unique opportunity to create a display suite depicting the lifestyle of a Mary Lane resident.
Parqer Wine Glass for Outdoor Use
Parqer Glass has been awarded with the 2016 Red Dot for their innovative outdoor wine glass.
adidas x Parley: Shoes Made From Ocean Plastic
adidas has released a limited edition running shoe made from Parley Ocean Plastic, which is collected in coastal areas in the Maldives, and includes illegal deep-sea gillnets retrieved by Parley for the Oceans' partner organization Sea Shepherd.
2016 Core77 Community Choice Awards
Core77 has revealed the full list of the 2016 Core77 Design Awards honorees and kicked off its second annual Core77 Community Choice Awards.
Winners of 2016 Bodyfriend Design Prize
iF has announced the winners of the 2016 Bodyfriend Design Prize, an international competition for young and up-and-coming design students and young professionals.
Barco One Campus HQ Officially Opens
Technology giant Barco officially moves into its new Kortrijk campus. Barco needed a centralised infrastructure because the distance between the sites in Kortrijk and Kuurne was getting to be too much for the employees.
NBCS: The School of the Future by WMK Architecture
WMK Architecture has delivered a truly innovative approach to school design with its brand new learning and social space at the heart of Northern Beaches Christian School (NBCS) in Terrey Hills.