Editor’s Picks: 5 highlights from Lake Como Design Festival

Taking its cue from nature, the vibrant design festival in northern Italy is a celebration of the local 

FLOOR_STORY launches bold new collections at the London Design Festival

The East London brand is marking a new stage in its development by launching collections by Amechi Mandi and Gill Thorpe at London Design Festival

7 things to see at London Design Festival 2023

From colourful public art trails to the latest designs by new emerging talent, we round up the highlights of what to check out at this year's London Design Festival

Arina Shokouhi, the designer of the Ecovado, believes that experimenting should begin at home

The Iranian London-based designer tackling food innovation, sustainability, consumer activism and atomic habits with a smile

Bryan O’Sullivan Studio launches first collection of furniture, lighting and objects

Sophisticated yet irreverent, curvilinear shapes and rich textiles are the hallmark of Bryan O'Sullivan's new collection

British designer Faye Toogood on creating contemporary classics

London-based designer Faye Toogood, known for her minimal pieces, celebrates 15 years of covetable craft and creative evolution

Design Icon: The Fiat Nuova Cinquecento brought driving to the Italian masses

It was the car that drove Italy’s economic miracle, swerving past the Vespa to become Italians’ favourite ride – but it never escaped the sense that its designers were having a bit of a laugh, says Brendan Cormier

US-based surface innovator Kaijie Chen talks tech and visual artistry

The American artist uses techniques from engineering technology and material science to inform her cross-disciplinary designs

Danish label &Tradition celebrates Verner Panton’s legacy with the Flowerpot lamp

Bold colours and effortless elegance: &Tradition teams up with the Panton family to welcome five scintillating colours and a 1970s black and white wave pattern to its Flowerpot range this spring

Design Icon: Alvar Aalto’s Armchair 400

The Tank, as it was nicknamed, made its debut in 1936, bringing its Finnish designer a new international acclaim

Design Destination: A guide to Los Angeles

From vintage showrooms to the latest new restaurants, experience the best of design in the city of LA with travel expert Amira Hashish

Our new sustainable design columnist Roddy Clarke is hopeful about the future

A positive outlook is imperative to change, and it is encouraging to see many brands and designers still actively working towards a circular future

From the Archive: A short history of the Bauhaus

Bauhaus, founded in the city of Weimar by architect Walter Gropius, originated as a German school of the arts in the early 20th century 

How Finland’s great chair designer Yrjö Kukkapuro modelled his designs on casts of his own body

It's sometimes said that we solved the problem of sitting down long ago – but Finnish designer Yrjö Kukkapuro has spent close to seven decades refining the ways in which we sit in comfort

From the Archive: A short history of Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair

First a student then a teacher at the Bauhaus, Marcel Breuer designed many innovative pieces. His Wassily chair is the most iconic

Yinka Ilori brings the feel-good factor back to London

Working in rainbow-bright colours and bold patterns, Yinka Ilori puts a welcome face on public spaces, giving the city back its sense of fun

From the Archive: A short history of the iconic Egg Chair by Arne Jacobsen

Designed in the fifties, the Egg Chair is a design classic that has become one of the most recognisable and copied chairs of all time

The Triennale Milano celebrates 100 years with three exhibitions and a newly accessible archive

For its 2023 centenary, Triennale Milano has scheduled three core exhibitions followed by the unveiling of a new open archive space – the grand finale of an event which will not only look at the past 100 years but set the tone for its next 100

Made Thought explores how visionary design can save the world with new journal

The London-based creative studio has published To Think Tomorrow, a compendium of 12 revealing interviews with some of the world’s pre-eminent futurists

Rimowa’s Seit 1898 exhibition reflects on 125 years and the evolution of travel

The 3-stop touring exhibition guides visitors through the rapid evolution of travel that’s defined the times since the maison’s founding in Cologne

Jolie Ngo tells ICON about her cyborgian work 3D printing ceramic objects

The Philadelphia-based designer talks to Vasia Rigou about her process and inspiration, the cyborgian nature of her work and cutting-edge technologies turning into tradition. Did we mention the future generation of robot potters?