The designers at Toormix are big fans of their local tipple, but worry that it suffers from a lack of coherent branding. Here’s their solution.

100% Design has announced the launch of 100% Future Living, a showcase of the best in design, technology and innovation. 100% Future Living will be the theme connecting each of the four new show sections: Interiors, Eco Design & Build, Kitchens & Bathrooms and Office. To read more click here

Tokyo architect Sou Fujimoto’s latest experiment in compact living is a minimalist climbing tower of glass walls and super-thin steel floor plates.

Artist Mary Ellen Carroll worked with British studio Simon Dance Design and a mathematician to create a set of furniture that lets you manipulate conversation.

The V&A opens a major exhibition on British design in the postwar years, Budapest hosts a four-day architecture film festival, SFMOMA surveys Buckminster Fuller’s influence in the Bay Area, John Pawson’s exhibition travels to the Pinakothek der Moderne and Pick Me Up, the graphic art fair, gets underway at Somerset House.

Over 22 pages of this special issue of Icon, we bring together designers, writers and experts to consider the meaning of the world’s most important object, the mobile phone.

In Icon’s ruins issue (Icon 105, March 2012), we accompany the Architectural Association’s Unknown Fields Division on a trip to the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Animator and filmmaker Jonathan Gales was also on the trip, and made this short film with his studio Factory Fifteen from footage shot in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

Cor & Asociados has created an iridescent facade for a music centre in a town in Alicante, Spain, and set its cultural heart racing.

Icon's parent company, Media 10, has acquired 100% Design, which runs alongside the London Design Festival and William Knight, former deputy director of LDF, is the new man in charge

Solitary, decaying and useless, London’s favourite derelict building stands proud and aloof amid legal wranglings, property speculation and the soulless transformation of its surroundings. For the “Ruins” issue, we made Battersea Power Station our Icon of the Month.

Zaha Hadid Architects has completed a sinuous, fluid office building in the south of France which attempts to alter our expectations of towers.

Fireworks and a new sculpture park give the Gulf’s richest country a chance to put on a display of culture in its capital.