Dubai Design Week: 2016 Global Grad Show focuses on humanity

Design innovations promoting the good for humanity highlight the 2016 Global Grad Show, part of the Dubai Design Week. Global Grad Show presents 145 transformative projects from 50 word-leading design schools across 30 countries – the largest meeting of graduate designers, creating the future. On its second year, the Global Grad Show is opening in Dubai … Read more

Danish Design Now. From Ceramic ‘super objects’ to hard-core industrial design

DesignMuseum Danmark is focusing on the contemporary Danish Design scene with a new permanent exhibition Danish Design Now. Danish Design Now presents a rich, yet selective, collection of objects, which represent the full spectrum of Danish Design: furniture for the home and the workplace; product Design for the body and the home; and graphic Design … Read more

Stephen Burks on DIY-meets-luxury and sustainable design

The modernist designer seeks ‘a return of the hand’ – or handmade products – in high-end consumerism

The strange science behind design: materials from unusual sources

From clothing made from crab compounds to recycled blue jeans worked into your Ford Fusion, innovation in textile manufacture and design is getting weirder – and more sustainable

The foundations of a sustainable future?

Nanoparticles have the potential to revolutionise the construction industry, but we need to tread carefully until the potential hazards of these “wonder materials” are fully understood

Sustainable design: Eco-friendly “Petite Floret” Faux Leather

Hybrid, Digital Printing – Vibrant & Eco-Friendly. EnviroLeather by LDI announces “Petite Floret” – a nature-inspired design pattern by interior product designers Tara Rae Hill and Martiele Sineath – using EnviroLeather’s breakthrough, eco- friendly, hybrid digital printing technology. The EnviroLeather sustainable upholstery printing process allows for a vibrancy and variety in color that have been … Read more