
Rethinking the world. Radical design in an age of crisis
“Design In An Age Of Crisis” is an international open call inviting creative professionals, the public, and students to create innovative design through radical thinking.

BEAZLEY DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2020 | PRODUCT DESIGN NOMINEES
The 24 nominees in the product design category give a very interesting, at times surprising, insight into the contemporary design

2021 Milan Furniture Fair postponed, again
Fiera Milano has announced that the Milan Furniture Fair 2021 has been postponed from April to 5-10 September 2021

Fantastic beasts and mythological creatures; highlights from the Bosa ceramics collection
Strange animals and mythological figures are the most recurring subjects in Bosa’s tableware and home accessories collections

CRA presents Scribit Pen, the world’s first fully compostable marker
Scribit Pen is eco-friendly in all its components. The pen barrel is available in wood, bioplastic, and aluminum. Inside it lies a natural fiber ink cartridge and nib

Will we travel at 1000 km per hour? The first ‘Pegasus’ passenger test
Designed for Virgin Hyperloop by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Kilo – Pegasus travels at speeds of over 1,000 km per hour

The ‘Milano Design City’ will run from 28 September through 10 October 2020
The program includes events, talks, workshops and exhibitions that will be hosted in the showrooms, museums and art galleries

‘Maison Dépliée’, a foldable pavilion designed by ARCHIEE
Maison Dépliée is a modular exhibition space inspired by the Japanese house and realized using traditional construction techniques

‘Plant Fever’,plant-inspired design on exhibition at the CID center in Belgium
From October, the ‘Plant Fever’ exhibition will open a window on the different approaches chosen by the designers who have decided to deal with the plant kingdom.

A multimedia corridor connects the buildings of Prague’s National Museum
The multimedia exhibition presents a time-lapse of the urban transformations of Wenceslas square and highlights of the 20th-century history of Prague.

Vienna Design Week 2020 will be held as scheduled
The Viennese design week organizers have announced that the Vienna Design Week will take place from 25 September to 4 October 2020.

Arper focuses on environmental sustainability with the new ‘Adell’ seat
Designed by Lievore + Altherr Désile Park, ‘Adell’ is the new seat produced by Arper with a shell made from 80% recycled polypropylene

Creativity saves social rituals at the time of the pandemic
British designer Paul Cocksedge has created ‘Here Comes the Sun’, an open-source project for a picnic blanket to let us socialize safely

‘Gae Aulenti: A Creative Universe’ on view at the Vitra Design Museum
Vitra Design Museum features “Gae Aulenti. A creative Universe”dedicated to one of the most influential architects and designers of the post-war period

Florence Jewellery Week, from 28 May to 4 June 2020
‘Florence Jewellery Week 2020’, dedicated to the world of goldsmith creation, will be held from May 28 to June 4 2020, in various museum spaces and galleries in Florence

‘Beauty Innovation 2020’, a new installation by contemporary design studio we+
Design Studio we+, in collaboration with Shiseido Art Director Taisuke Kikuchi, has created the installation called “Beauty Innovation 2020”

CURA: an open-source design for emergency COVID-19 hospitals
CURA aims to improve the efficiency of existing solutions in the design of field hospitals, tailoring them to the current pandemic.

Contemporary craft: some of the 30 finalists of the 2020 Loewe Craft Prize
Inexhibit publishes the most intriguing works chosen among the 30 finalists of the annual Loewe Craft Prize.

Milan’s Design Week 2020 canceled following Coronavirus outbreak
See you at the 60th edition of Salone del Mobile. Milano. Following the coronavirus outbreak, the organizers announced that the Milan Furniture Fair has been canceled.

Milan Design Week 2020 – COS presents a collaboration with ecoLogicStudio
London-based fashion brand COS will return to the 2020 edition of Milan Design Week to present a collaboration with architecture and urban design practice ecoLogicStudio

Vitra Design Museum presents ‘Home stories’. Visionary interiors from the past 100 years
With the exhibition ‘Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors’ the Vitra Design Museum reopens the conversation about the contemporary private interior and its evolution

‘A.I.’ by Kartell is the first chair created by artificial intelligence
A.I. by Kartell is the 1st chair conceived by artificial intelligence, created in response to input received from Philippe Starck, and from the company

Musée des Arts Décoratifs explores the relationship between fashion and body
The MAD-Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris continues its exploration into the relationship between fashion and body with ‘Marche et démarche’.

Michael Anastassiades at Maison&Objet Paris in January 2020
Michael Anastassiades will be the “designer of the year” at the next edition of Maison&Objet Paris in January 2020.

Iconic Bulbo lamp by Castiglioni brothers revives in a new edition by FLOS
Conceived in 1957 by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the iconic ‘Bulbo’ lamp is brought back to life today in a new edition by Flos.

Originals by Adidas wins the Beazley Designs of the Year for the Fashion category
‘Originals’, the collection of streetwear designed by Ji Won Choi for Adidas, wins the 2019 Beazley Designs of the Year Award for the Fashion category