Design
Design
Adidas plans to use design to conquer America
News: German sports brand Adidas aims to use design to increase its market share in America, according to executive board member for global brands Eric Liedtke (+ interview). More
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Design
Design
"I want to bring the surprise back to IKEA" says head of design
Interview: in this exclusive interview, IKEA's design manager Marcus Engman reveals how the Swedish furniture giant is using design to overhaul its reputation for "doing cheap stuff". More
Architecture
Architecture
"Regulation has a very stifling effect on creativity," say O'Donnell and Tuomey
Interview: there aren't enough opportunities in Europe for talented young architects, according to Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey, who tonight receive the RIBA Royal Gold Medal. More
Design
Design
The fashion industry is "saturated" says Olivier Theyskens
Interview: the former head of two Parisian fashion houses has discouraged students from setting up their own brands because the industry is overwhelmed by too many new names. More
Architecture
Architecture
Sou Fujimoto's Palm Court retail complex completes in Miami
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto aimed to create "crystallised showers of sunlight" with the blue glass fins that front his shopping centre in the Miami Design District (+ interview + slideshow). More
Design
Design
Growing products from fungus could be the start of a "biotechnological revolution"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Amsterdam designer Maurizio Montalti explains how biological organisms such as fungi could be harnessed to create new sustainable materials in this movie filmed in Eindhoven. More
Design
Design
Brooke Roberts turns brain scans into knitwear patterns
Cardiac radiographer and designer Brooke Roberts has used digital knitting technology to create garments with patterns based on MRI brain scans and medical imagery (+ interview). More
Design
Design
Fab co-founder returns with Bezar, a new marketplace for emerging designers
Exclusive: Fab.com co-founder Bradford Shellhammer is to return to online design retail with a new venture called Bezar (+ interview). More
Lighting
Lighting
Teresa van Dongen's bioluminescent lamp is "a new way to create light"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen explains how she created a lamp powered by bioluminescent bacteria usually found on octopuses, in this movie filmed in Eindhoven. More
Design
Design
Barkow Leibinger chose "strong and elastic" cotton for tensile installation in Marrakech
Dezeen promotion: cotton was the material of choice for design studio Barkow Leibinger when forming an undulating canopy in the centre of Marrakech (+ interview + slideshow). More
Design
Design
Marc Newson helped trigger a "manufacturing revolution" at Nike, says CEO Mark Parker
Interview: as Nike prepares to reissue Marc Newson's Zvezdochka footwear, the sportswear brand's president and CEO spoke to Dezeen about how the shoes "helped pave the way for other breakthroughs" in manufacturing, aesthetics and sustainability. More
Design
Design
Nike reissues "revolutionary" Marc Newson trainers
News: sportswear brand Nike is reissuing its iconic Zvezdochka trainers designed by Marc Newson, ten years after the shoes were first launched (+ interview + slideshow). More
Architecture
Architecture
Neri&Hu's architecture "challenges the accepted values of society"
Movie: architect Rossana Hu explains why she and her partner Lyndon Neri turned the theme of "feeling good in architecture" on its head in their keynote speech at this year's Inside Festival. More
Architecture
Architecture
Architects "haven't learned" how to connect skyscrapers to the public realm, says Safdie
Movie: in the final video interview from our exclusive series, architect Moshe Safdie says that architects are too concerned with designing objects to create skyscrapers that work with the city. More
Design
Design
Driverless cars in cities still "20 to 30 years" away, says senior Audi engineer
News: autonomous vehicles in urban areas could be up to thirty years away, according to Audi's Thomas Müller, the engineer leading the development of the brand's driverless sports car (+ interview). More
Architecture
Architecture
Álvaro Siza: "Emotion is very important" in architecture
Interview: Álvaro Siza, one of the world's most decorated architects, spoke to Dezeen recently in his home city of Porto, Portugal. In this interview he tells us his projects are never finished "because we never have enough time". More
Architecture
Architecture
Marina Bay Sands offers "a new kind of public realm" says Moshe Safdie
Movie: in the first in a series of exclusive video interviews, AIA Gold Medal-winner Moshe Safdie talks about his most famous project since Habitat 67 – the gigantic Marina Bay Sands development in Singapore. More
Architecture
Architecture
3D-printed structural components will lead to "new building shapes"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Salomé Galjaard of engineering firm Arup says 3D-printed building components will result in more efficient and diverse architectural forms (+ movie). More
Design
Design
Domus Academy design school launches salon-style teaching system
News: Italian design school Domus Academy has recruited leading creatives – including Patricia Urquiola, Joseph Grima, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alice Rawsthorn – to form a panel that will help the school "revolutionise" its teaching (+ interview). More
Mobility
Mobility
Solar-powered cars could become standard "within 30 years"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: engineering student Martijn Lammers, part of the team behind the world's "first solar-powered family car," claims most vehicles could be powered by the sun in future. More