Our highlights from London Craft Week 2023
Returning for its ninth edition earlier this month, London Craft Week once again brought together a wealth of local and global talent
New York studio Particle recycles footwear into furniture and homeware designs
This Brooklyn-based label is paving its own sustainable path with furniture and homeware designs made from 100% recycled content
The Sustainable City looks at how truly good architecture can transform a city
A new book by journalist Harriet Thorpe and photographer Taran Wilkhu uncovers how London is responding to the urgent need to build with the environment
The ICON Guide to Clerkenwell Design Week 2023
Clerkenwell's favourite design festival returns from 23-25 May with hundreds of design-led events, exciting workshops, engaging talks, and more. Read on to discover ICON's guide to this year's edition of Clerkenwell Design Week
Architecture
The Sustainable City looks at how truly good architecture can transform a city
A new book by journalist Harriet Thorpe and photographer Taran Wilkhu uncovers how London is responding to the urgent need to build with the environment
At the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the curators of the British pavilion draw from diaspora placemaking
The curators of this year’s British pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale are putting the public at the centre of the space – shifting the spotlight towards more informal placemaking by looking at the ways in which people use urban and domestic space through the everyday rituals followed by diaspora communities
How recycled hospital equipment is transformed into a plastic pavilion designed for inhospitable climates
Hassell is working with charitable foundation To.org to create a plastic pavilion that can act as a single-room shelter in harsh environments. Yet this complex, high-tech concept has been built around discarded hospital equipment from Europe
Design
Our highlights from London Craft Week 2023
Returning for its ninth edition earlier this month, London Craft Week once again brought together a wealth of local and global talent
New York studio Particle recycles footwear into furniture and homeware designs
This Brooklyn-based label is paving its own sustainable path with furniture and homeware designs made from 100% recycled content
The ICON Guide to Clerkenwell Design Week 2023
Clerkenwell's favourite design festival returns from 23-25 May with hundreds of design-led events, exciting workshops, engaging talks, and more. Read on to discover ICON's guide to this year's edition of Clerkenwell Design Week
Opinion
The problem of a lack of diversity in architecture starts early, but it can be fixed
We need to do more to expand access to the profession from a young age, says Nisha Kurian
What if brand experiences were designed to trigger emotions?
Thinking beyond the instagrammable, what if spaces were designed to trigger specific emotions, such as hope? Or a sense of calm, intrigue, surprise? Creative Director of LOVE, Russell Ashdown, shares his thoughts
What the fight for inclusion needs in 2023
Don’t let fear of getting it wrong stop you from trying to do the right thing, says Design Can, a community and active resource platform calling for an inclusive and representative creative industry
