ICON’s guide to navigating London Design Festival
From product launches to insightful talks and engaging showroom activities, there’s something for everyone during the 22nd edition of London Design Festival
Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches
A thoughtful selection of the latest lifestyle and design news, plus the creatives who are championing boundary-breaking fashion
Matthew Hyndman’s debut show Upended subverts cliched tropes of Scottish landscape photography
The Edinburgh gallery Bard is hosting an exhibition of 10 monumental photographic prints by artist and activist Matthew Hyndman in a show called Upended
Design icon: Finland’s most famous flower is celebrating its 60th birthday this year
This year sees the 60th birthday of Marimekko’s most famous image – the oversized floral print Unikko, designed by Maija Isola. And in this year’s spring/ summer collection, the Finnish textile pioneer pays tribute to its 1960s roots
Design
Architecture
Architecture Icon: Alvar and Aino Aalto’s house in Helsinki bears all the hallmarks of their approach to design
Tucked away on a quiet side street in a leafy area of Helsinki, Alvar and Aino Aalto’s discreet suburban home demonstrates a beauty and practicality familiar from their better-known designs
From the archives: Innovative landscapes inspiring children’s imaginations
As we gain a greater understanding of its importance in children’s learning and development, architects and artists around the world are developing innovative and visually stimulating landscapes to support exploratory and imaginative play
This multi-residential project by MODA cultivates community through urban farming
Providing a new model for urban living in Calgary, Canada, Grow is an innovative project by Modern Office of Design + Architecture (MODA) challenging the traditional notions of multi-residential buildings
Design
Pietre Incise by Lithos Design: modular coverings with infinite applications
Infinite perspectives, three-dimensional geometries, optical effects, organic shapes and architectural styles, outline the motifs of Lithos Design first and most popular collection
ICON’s guide to navigating London Design Festival
From product launches to insightful talks and engaging showroom activities, there’s something for everyone during the 22nd edition of London Design Festival
Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches
A thoughtful selection of the latest lifestyle and design news, plus the creatives who are championing boundary-breaking fashion
Opinion
How Minus Furniture is exploring a net zero business model
Can furniture really be carbon negative? Minus Furniture is a research-driven design studio seeking to explore the reality of a net zero and below zero business model. Roddy Clarke investigates
Milo Mcloughlin-Greening of Batch.Works on how we must change patterns of manufacturing
To truly bring about change we must foster entirely new ideas about how products are manufactured and consumed, writes Milo Mcloughlin-Greening of Batch.Works
Speakers at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial took inspiration from the past in redefining strategies of renewal and sustainability for Africa
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial saw a new focus on redefining scarcity and abundance in Africa, writes our new columnist Rue Kothari
