Icon 104 out now

06 January 2012

The February issue of Icon is devoted to ‘Food’. We look at the overlooked world of food design – why are there Alessi jugs and Starck lemon squeezers in MoMA’s design collection, but no Kinder Surprise eggs? – and at the architects and designers who ask important questions about why industrially produced food looks the way it does.

Issue 094 out now

04 March 2011
Icon 094 is out now! This month we explore the idea of originality in architecture and design by focusing on the work of two young practices. On the cover we have an illustration by Nick Morley of MAD's Absolute Towers which are topping out in Canada.

Issue 93 out now

04 February 2011
Icon 093 is out now! On the cover of the March issue is Chinese artist, architect and dissident Ai Weiwei, leading four features about artists who indulge in architecture.

Issue 092 out now

07 January 2011
Icon 092 is out now – join us for a trip into “digital worlds”, our theme for February. Leading the adventure is Zaha Hadid Architects:

Issue 089 out now

08 October 2010
The November issue of icon is on sale now. Issey Miyake graces the front cover, while inside we visit BIG’s 8 House, MVRDV’s Balancing Barn and critique the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Issue 088 out now

10 September 2010
The bumper October issue of icon, on sale now, is not to be missed. It's got AOC in London, Michael Maltzan in Los Angeles, Nika Zupanc in Slovenia, 2010's top graduates, the psychopathy of supermarket design - and the icon design trail.

Issue 087 out now

09 August 2010
The September icon, which is in shops now, comes with a cover designed by Peter Saville: the English flag, reinterpreted for the 21st century. Inside, we ask what "England" means today and Metahaven takes on David Cameron's "big society".

Issue 086 out now

05 July 2010

Design revolution is at the top of the agenda in icon 086, the August issue, which is in shops now. Jerszy Seymour and Gaetano Pesce, representatives of two different decades of radical design, set the world to rights in an incendiary conversation, and there's much else besides.

Issue 085 out now

04 June 2010
There's a whole heap of good things in the July icon, issue 085, now in shops - and top of the pile is Sou Fujimoto’s stacked up houses in Tokyo.
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