Lighting
Lighting
Light Shadows by Zero and Orrefors Kosta Boda
Swedish lighting company Zero and luxury glassware brands Orrefors Kosta Boda have developed a standard lamp called Light Shadows. More
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Architecture
Architecture
Gravesend public toilets by Plastik Architects
Here's another building with a pointy prow, but this time it's a public toilet. Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us these pictures of the new facilities in Gravesend in Kent, England, by Plastik Architects. More
Architecture
Architecture
The world’s biggest ever building by Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners have released designs for the biggest building ever built: Crystal Island in Moscow will be 450m high, cover an area of almost half a million square metres and contain a total floor area of 2.5 million square metres. More
Design
Design
Ettore Sottsass 1917-2007
Italian designer Ettore Sottsass has died aged 90, the New York Times reports (via dezain.net, via archinect).
Interiors
Interiors
Hoe Hoe Hoe at Container Ground, Tokyo
We should have run this over Christmas, on account of its punny name. Hoe Hoe Hoe! was an installation at Container Ground during Tokyo Designers Week in November. Students of Tama Art University in Tokyo filled their shipping container with a papier-mache structure lined with shredded newspaper. More
Interiors
Interiors
Techtile exhibition design by Nosigner
Japanese designer Nosigner created the space for an exhibition called Techtile at the University of Tokyo last November. More
Dezeen's end of year traffic report
It's a new year, so it's time to do the accounts. 2007 was our first year and it was a great start: Dezeen got 2.5 million unique visitors in total, and 4.5 million page loads. More
Graphics
Graphics
Designer New Year cards
Following the popularity of our Designer Christmas Cards post, here are a few New Year cards we've received from designer folk out there. Above: Kam Tang. Meanwhile Happy New Year from us, thanks for visiting and see you in 2008! More
Graphics
Graphics
Movie: pop-up tattoo parlour at Design Miami
Design Miami 07: here is our sixth movie from Design Miami in December, featuring the As Long As It Lasts tattoo parlour set up by Tobias Wong, Josée Lepage and Aric Chen (who is interviewed in this film). Movie length: 38 seconds. More
Interiors
Interiors
KIVI NIRIA auditorium by AAArchitects
Amer Alhassan of AAArchitects has renovated the auditorium at the Royal Institution of Engineers in the Netherlands (KIVI NIRIA) in The Hague. More
Graphics
Graphics
Spur by Katrin Olina
Designer and illustrator Katrin Olina created a mural called Spur for the VIP room at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More
Architecture
Architecture
Oktokki Space Center by Mass Studies
Oktokki Space Center is the third of our trio of projects by Korean architects Mass Studies. More
Architecture
Architecture
Xi Gallery by Mass Studies
The second of our three recent buildings by Korean architects Mass Studies is the Xi Gallery in Pusan. More
Retail
Retail
Ann Demeulemeester Shop in Seoul by Mass Studies
Here is the first of three recent projects by Korean architect Minsuk Cho of Mass Studies: the Ann Demeulemeester Shop in the Gangham district of Seoul. More
Retail
Retail
Reiss flagship store by Universal Design Studio
Interior architects Universal Design Studio have completed a new flagship store in London for clothing brand Reiss. More
Design
Design
Normal timepieces by Ross McBride
Designer Ross McBride of Tokyo-based Normal presented a new collection of clocks and watches at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More
Architecture
Architecture
Heterotopia by David Kohn Architects
David Kohn Architects' design for Heterotopia, a zero carbon art garden at the Thames Gateway, has been shortlisted for the RIBA London and Arts Council England ideas competition 'Arts Space of the Future'. More
Architecture
Architecture
Petter Dass Museum by Snøhetta
Norwegian architects Snøhetta have completed Petter Dass Museum, a building cut into solid rock on a remote Fjord in Norway. More
Design
Design
Reborn by Being Object
Reborn is the name of a bath and water faucet developed by Chinese designers Being Object. More
Lighting
Lighting
Onduler and Sakulight by Chihiro Tanaka
Japanese lighting designer Chihiro Tanaka has produced two new products, one inspired by cherry blossom and one by "shimmering aurora and sublime mountain folds". More