Opinion
Opinion
"Cute nostalgia sits strangely with Brutalism"
Opinion: Sam Jacob ponders the paradox of solid, concrete Brutalist architecture printed onto soft furnishings in this week's column. More
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Technology
Technology
"Cities are being redrawn according to Google's world view"
Opinion: in the second of two columns exploring the impact of digital culture on design, Sam Jacob looks at how Google Maps is reshaping cities while Apple, Facebook and Amazon are reshaping the natural landscape by building their own headquarters as self-contained ecosystems. More
Technology
Technology
"Prism is the dark side of design thinking"
Opinion: in the first of two columns about the impact of digital culture on design, Sam Jacob asks what America's Prism surveillance program tells us about design thinking. More
Design
Design
"There's no fun, no risk and no imagination in luxury design"
Opinion: instead of serving up "mundane and predictable" cliches, the world of luxury design should be tempting us with things we never knew we wanted, argues Sam Jacob in his latest column. More
Design
Design
"The Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza is a product of the zeitgeist"
Opinion: a pizza crust stuffed with a hot dog could be the ultimate expression of contemporary design culture, suggests Sam Jacob in this week's opinion column. More
Design
Design
"Money acts as a piece of national pageantry"
Opinion: as the Bank of England unveils the design of its new £5 note, Sam Jacob ponders the historic and cultural symbolism of money in this week's opinion column. More
Opinion
Opinion
"Architectural education must change"
Opinion: in this week's column Sam Jacob argues that architectural education is in crisis and must become more accessible. More
Design
Design
"To visit Milan is to experience the antithesis of design"
Opinion: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs reports from Milan design week, where he finds a city seemingly determined to make life unbearable for visitors. More
Design
Design
"Extending copyright for design condemns us to mid-century modernism"
Opinion: in his latest Opinion column, Sam Jacob argues that the UK government's plans to extend the copyright term for design "protect existing interests instead of promoting innovation". More
Design
Design
"Wearable gadgets serve as a relentless reality check"
Opinion: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs discusses how wearable technology will "transform our understanding of ourselves". More
Opinion
Opinion
"There’s no column in the spreadsheet for ideology"
Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob argues that great architecture can't be evaluated in terms of money or cultural entertainment, but must "speak directly to ideology and love". More
Landscape
Landscape
"This is a village with no facilities beyond raw security"
Opinion: in his latest column, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs discusses why gated communities are "becoming the default setting in towns and cities around the world" and asks whether it matters who owns the land beneath our feet. More
Opinion
Opinion
"Unboxing videos represent a form of design criticism"
Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob explains why YouTube movies of consumers ritualistically unpacking their purchases "bring a sharp eye to the designed world". More
Interiors
Interiors
"Offices designed as fun palaces are fundamentally sinister"
Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob calls for an end to the "tyranny of fun" in office design. More
Opinion
Opinion
"We're scrapping unpaid internships"
Opinion: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs explains why we're responding to our critics and introducing paid editorial internships: "Interns will get a contract and be paid above the minimum wage". More
Design
Design
"Sorry green design, it's over"
Opinion: in a special Valentine's column, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs explains why designers have dumped dowdy green design in favour of glamorous robots. More
Technology
Technology
"We can't draft a new world and print it out"
Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob argues that instead of liberating us, 3D printing will merely "bind us even more closely to fewer and fewer corporations". More
Opinion
Opinion
"Why wouldn't a contemporary museum use eBay?"
Opinion: in this week's column, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs wonders why London's Design Museum is so reluctant to talk about money, arguing that design classics "aren't theoretical exercises but sophisticated appeals to the wallet." More
Opinion
Opinion
"How can culture exist in a stream of Photoshopped incontinence?"
Opinion: in the first of his bi-weekly columns for our new Opinion section, Sam Jacob describes the way that sites like Dezeen have unleashed a "design tsunami" and discusses how "the endless spewing of design imagery" is affecting design culture. More
Opinion
Opinion
At last, Dezeen has an opinion
Dezeen is finally launching an opinion column. The first piece by our new columnist Sam Jacob will run tomorrow; here, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, whose own column will alternate with Jacob's, explains why it's taken us so long to take a stance. More