The art of noise: how music recording has changed over the decades

Technology provides crystal clear recordings of all the music in the world, at little or no cost. But, as a historical audio installation opens at the Science Museum, composer Christopher Fox asks why we won’t let go of our musical past

Silicon Valley: an army of geeks and ‘coders’ shaping our future

My birthplace has been changed forever by the app and network generation

Green apps and gadgets: Conscious Me

It’s a growing interactive website on every subject you can think of, but how eco-conscious and useful has it become so far?

Designs of the Year: chairs that make you fidget and a piano from the future

From the Pro Chair that makes schoolkids squirm to an all-black piano, plus Prada and Zaha Hadid, here are the seven category winners from the Designs of the Year

Bang & Olufsen’s next-generation flagship

Sound, design and sensory experiences celebrated at next-generation Bang & Olufsen flagship in North America.   The iconic high-end Danish brand Bang & Olufsen (founded in Struer, Denmark, in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen) unveiled its first newly redesigned store concept in North America, at the new Madison Avenue showroom location in New … Read more

Designs of the Year 2014 pits the ingeniously amusing against the admirably innovative.

Designs of the Year 2014. Nominations include students and design stars such as Zaha Hadid, John Pawson, Stephen Jones, David Chipperfield and Miuccia Prada. Looking for the very best in global Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphic, Product and Transport design? Welcome to Designs of the Year 2014. The 76 nominations for Designs of the Year … Read more