Dominique Perrault awarded Praemium Imperiale arts prize
French architect Dominique Perrault has been named the 2015 Praemium Imperiale architecture laureate – a prestigious award given by the Japan Art Association. More
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Michael J Fox tries Nike's first pair of Back to the Future self-lacing shoes
Nike has celebrated Back to the Future day by presenting actor Michael J Fox with a pair of the self-lacing shoes he wore in the 1985 movie Back to the Future II. More
Modebelofte 2015 presents "sport-related" graduate fashion at Eindhoven football stadium
Dutch Design Week 2015: experimental graduate fashion designs themed around sport and performance are on show at Eindhoven's Philips Stadium for this year's Modebelofte exhibition. More
Car manufacturers show how Back to the Future is influencing vehicle design
Car manufacturers, including Mercedes-Benz and Toyota, suggest the classic sci-fi film Back to the Future provided the inspiration for the vehicles of tomorrow. More
New York's first micro-apartment building to be completed in December
A modular residential tower designed by nArchitects that is meant to offer a solution to New York's affordable housing shortage is nearing completion (+ movie). More
Aamodt Plumb renovates New England home housed within a cluster of barns
US firm Aamodt Plumb Architects has updated a Massachusetts dwelling made up of old barns that were converted into a single-family home in the 1950s (+ slideshow). More
Design Academy Eindhoven students "see crisis in the world and respond to it"
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven has undergone a "paradigm shift" with students now more interested in responding to real-world problems such as Europe's refugee crisis than making beautiful objects for collectors, according to creative director Thomas Widdershoven. More
Tokyo 2020 Olympics organisers seek replacement logo through public competition
Tokyo 2020 Olympics organisers have launched a public competition to source a replacement logo for Kenjiro Sano's controversial withdrawn design. More
Bouroullec brothers install matching steel Kiosque units for Paris art fair
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have unveiled a pair of identical glass and steel containers for the International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris (+ movie). More
Hotel design event Sleep returns to London next month
Dezeen promotion: annual hotel design event Sleep is set to take place at London's Business Design Centre on 24 and 25 November 2015 (+ slideshow). More
Bastiaan de Nennie designs hybrid virtual objects for Digital Virtuosity series
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bastiaan de Nennie has 3D-scanned and re-assembled everyday objects as improbable digital creations. More
Family house in Japan designed by Tailored Design Lab to embrace its farmland setting
Surrounded by farmland in rural Japan, this house by architecture studio Tailored Design Lab features a steeply pointed roof that frames views of the landscape, and an oversized chimney that provides natural ventilation (+ slideshow). More
Back to the Future "brought the future closer" say designers
Sci-fi movie Back to the Future II created a "self-fulfilling prophecy" that helped shape today's interactions and objects, according to contemporary designers. More
Renzo Piano draws up designs for his next London skyscraper
Architect Renzo Piano has unveiled designs for another London skyscraper – a 224-metre cylindrical tower expected to do for Paddington "what The Shard did for London Bridge". More
Automata aims to "democratise robotics" with $3,000 six-axis robot
Future Makers: in this movie filmed by Dezeen in London, Suryansh Chandra claims the affordable robotic arm his company Automata is developing could lead to robots becoming as ubiquitous as desktop 3D printers. More
Today we like: Back to the Future
Over the past few years, designers have been exploring ways to use various technologies predicted in the film Back to the Future II. From augmented reality to robots, we've pulled together projects from our archive that echo moments from the film to mark the day that Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrive in 2015. Explore the real-life Back to the Future designs »
WOW Architects opens art and design venue in converted Singapore shophouse
Almost 20 years after buying a shophouse in a historic Singapore neighbourhood, local architect Maria Warner Wong and her team have converted the building into a new venue for art and design (+ slideshow). More
Arx Pax unveils updated Hendo hoverboard on Back to the Future day
Tech company Arx Pax has worked with pro skateboarder Tony Hawk to create a slimmed-down design for its second Hendo hoverboard, released today to mark the exact date travelled to in 1980s sci-fi film Back to the Future II. More