Icon Competition 20 May 2013

To celebrate our first decade in print, we're offering you the chance to win one of six classic chairs during Clerkenwell Design Week. All you have to do is doodle around a silhouette of the chair you want, putting it into an imaginary context, and drop it into one of the special Icon boxes at CDW. To find out more:
This 9.5g disc of brass and nickel has proved reassuringly durable, surviving counterfeiting, inflation and the wrath of the Daily Mail to reach its 30th anniversary this year.
The sculptures and furniture dreamed up in Joep van Lieshout’s Rotterdam studio are the imagined products of dark, violent and anarchic worlds: a vast slave city, a World War Three landscape or, in his latest works, a pre-industrial tribal community.

Bench B 07 May 2013

Konstantin Grcic has created a contemporary modular chair system that echoes wrought-iron Roman seating and Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Chair.
The Israeli design duo come to London with a show of objects inspired by the Middle East and a carnival of handcrafted robotic animals.

Feature: Neri Oxman 24 April 2013

Neri Oxman’s experiments with 3D printing include furniture coverings that behave like skin, clothes that mimic a spider’s thread and medical equipment modelled on animal fur. Does such “biologically inspired” design hold the key to the technology’s future?

Branca-Lisboa 19 April 2013

Marco Sousa Santos has used traditional Portuguese craftsmanship and local timber to create a furniture collection inspired by his home city of Lisbon.
IWANT design takes a look at the single most important piece of paper in your life. This rethink aims to make the birth certificate worth treasuring: a multi-format document that records your first moments forever.

Daniel Rybakken 25 March 2013

The Norwegian designer is the first non-Swede to have designed the bar at Stockholm Furniture Fair; it's the culmination of four years’ work to combine the abstract and concrete in lighting.

Shivering bowls 25 March 2013

Nendo’s response to a recent exhibition about sex and design is a series of delicate bowls, which are meant to be touched.

Ready-made curtain 20 March 2013

Inspired by the mechanics of a guitar, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed a minimalist curtain system they say a child could install.
On the tenth anniversary of her death, we remember Dolly, the first animal cloned from an adult cell. A lone sheep, she paved the way to advances in biotechnology and shed light on the nature of being.

Jules Wabbes 12 March 2013

Bulo has reissued coveted items from the mid-century Belgian designer’s furniture collection after a revival of interest in his work.
As payment becomes more convenient, coins seem increasingly cumbersome, so some streamlining is necessary if we are to continue using them. Here is Studio Thomson's set of coins for the digital age.

OS and OOS 18 February 2013

This Eindhoven-based design duo’s musings on the sun have yielded a series of mesmerising lights that mimic celestial movements.

Maarten Baas 07 February 2013

An elaborate sand-timer for Laikingland and an introspective model of a thinker for Swarovski, reflect the Dutch designer’s present state of mind.

Design Indaba 2013 05 February 2013

The world’s leading design conference, which brings together speakers from different disciplines and from all over the world, runs from 27 February to 1 March this year.

Ventura Lambrate 2013 04 February 2013

We’re delighted to be a media partner of Ventura Lambrate at Milan this year. Now in its third year, the cutting-edge showcase for emerging and established design talent runs alongside the Salone del Mobile from 9th to 14th April.

Jasper Morrison 23 January 2013

Whether he's collecting rolls of tape from around the world or reinterpreting classic chairs, the London designer prefers to explore the diversity in the everyday to creating "showy" objects. 

The Icon Awards evening 20 December 2012

On 6 December we launched the first ever Icon Awards at an Awards evening for all our nominees, where the winners were announced and presented with their trophies. It was a great evening and our guests enjoyed Ketel One cocktails, Asahi beer and canapés from Ginger Jar Food.
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