Alberto Ballesteros   Scheherazade told stories in order to survive. The human being has always honed ingenuity at critical moments, and this book proves so. It looks at a refugee camp in the Jordanian desert where Syrian migrants forced to stay put have to harness their

With materials sourced from the depths of Lake Pieman in Tasmania, and inspired by its home in a Bondi Beach office space, the Intersection Worktable merges a conventional worktable with material exploration and sculptural furniture. Reaching almost

Bloomberg    Jennifer Surane   For the first time, the company is allowing customers to choose among three designs for the elusive, $5,000-a-year Centurion card: its classic black design, or ones designed by Rem Koolhaas and Kehinde Wiley. Cardholders will begin receiving the new

Simón Marchán Fiz   Alberto Corazón amazed me from the moment I met him because of the breadth of his views in the professional horizons upon which his inquisitive eye was directed, the enthusiasm with which, like a daring argonaut of polyhedral creation, he took in the

Norman Foster   I had wanted to collaborate with Otl Aicher on the graphics and signage for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Frustratingly, the politics of commissioning on that project ruled it out, but I remember someone asking me why we needed him and responding,

The Guardian   Lanre Bakare   Creators say they hope the work encourages people to build bridges between communities. A collection of bright pink seesaws that allowed people to interact over the US-Mexico border has been named by the Design Museum in London as overall winner of B

Harvard University   Leah Burrows   In a new paper published in Nature Materials, the researchers showed that the diagonally-reinforced square lattice-like skeletal structure of Euplectella aspergillum, a deep-water marine sponge, has a higher strength-to-weight ratio than the traditio

While the architecture, cinema, or the graphic arts of the Russian avant-gardes have been studied in great detail, other disciplines such as interior design or furniture design are still largely unknown, as is the history of their evolution from the

Nendo   A clock that is designed in the shape of a slanted cube thanks to a sliced-off vertex that allows the clock to balance on its corner. The long and the short hands overlap one another 22 times throughout the day, but only at noon and midnight they wil

Until 8 September the Museo Centro Gaiás in Santiago de Compostela’s Cidade da Cultura de Galicia hosted ‘Thinking With Your Hands: Basketry, Pottery, and Jewelry of Galicia,’ for which the curator, Verónica Santos Farto, selected 250 objects made by

The Cosentino Design Challenge international competition seeks to promote research revolving around the configuration of spaces, materials, and building systems. The 13th edition brought in 350 candidates and three prizes were given in each of two se

The temporary exhibition displays projects and designs in a 186-square-meter space at the base of the building by ZHA next to the High Line in New York. The show covers the work of the architect – who passed away in 2016 – since its beginnings in the

Rafael Gómez-Moriana   Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.” The underside of the laptop computer I am using to write this displays those very words alongside the model name, serial number, and safety norm compliance symbols. Funny, because until not too lo

Sarah Williams Goldhagen   Incluso el ‘genio’ que le atiende en la tienda más cercana de Apple podría admitir que un euro invertido en un PC aporta una capacidad significativamente mayor de poder de computación que el gastado en un Mac. Todos sabemos, además, que navegar por i

Achim Menges   La madera, uno de los más antiguos materiales de construcción, puede redescubrirse con su uso en inéditas formas surgidas de las nuevas herramientas de diseño informático.

Tim Adams   Veinte años atrás, China no tenía una palabra para indicar ‘diseñador’. Había ‘artistas trabajadores’ que creaban envoltorios utilitaristas y fabricantes de pósteres de propaganda para el gobierno, pero el diseño como una idea en sí misma no era chin

Mario Carpo   Design and Automation at the End of Modernity

Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani   Propositions for the Architecture of the City