in 2014, the Central Bank of Norway appointed Snøhetta and Metric Design/Terje Tønnessen to develop the design of its new paper currency

Sunbrella and Wendy Andreu have developed a new technique to ensure the continued sustainability of Sunbrella’s fabric waste

4 Sci-Fi like designs that became reality: the Cray-2 supercomputer, the Northrop YB-49 “Flying Wing”, the OSI Bisiluro race car, and Star Trek’s flip phone

Kaiku Living Color is a system designed to obtain pigments from vegetable waste, offering a sustainable alternative to synthetic colors

Dutch Design Week 2019 presents a number of urban mobility projects including the Station of Being bus shelter by Rombout Frieling lab and a folding helmet for e-bikers by Amy Virasak

“After the wall” at Vitra Design Museum. How has design been shaped by technological, cultural, and social shifts for the last 30 years?

Manufactured initially by ISO Rivolta in Italy in 1953 and then by BMW in Germany, the Isetta was a revolutionary egg-shaped little automobile and the world’s first microcar

Beazley Designs of the Year 2019. The rethinking of mass-products, and reinterpretation of raw design materials dominates this year’s product selection

Until 13 October 2019 the CID – Centre d’Innovation et du Design at Grand-Hornu, in Belgium, presents the exhibition “Design on Air”.

The exhibition “Moving to Mars” explores how sending humans to Mars is not just a new frontier for science but also for design

At the V&A, ‘FOOD: Bigger than the Plate’ explores how innovative organisations are radically re-inventing how we grow, distribute and experience food

From 17 through 26 June, 2019, unique pieces and limited edition designs are on view in Salò, on the west coast of Lake Garda.

The 14th edition of the Barcelona Design Week, entitled “Transicions”, runs from 12 through 20 June 2019

London Design Festival 2019 preview: the ‘Please be seated’ installation designed by Paul Cocksedge in Broadgate

Bauhaus#Itsalldesign is open at the Designmuseum Danmark to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the art school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919

With the exhibition “Living in a Box: Design and Comics” the Vitra Design Museum explores the world of comics and their relationship to design

The CID -Centre d’innovation et du design- features “Glass-Oriented Design”. The exhibition presents a series of glass objects realized at CIRVA, Marseille

Italian artist Maria Cristina Finucci created a large site-specific art installation in Milan made out of about two tons of used plastic bottle caps

During the Milan Design Week 2019, Brazilian design firm Estudio Campana transformed a cloister of the Statale University palace in Milan into a large grass-covered installation

At Milan Design Week 2019, Japanese design firm TAKT PROJECT, led by Satoshi Yoshiizumi, presents “glow ⇄ grow”, a lighting installation consisting of clear-resin stalactites

SaloneSatellite 2019: in this year’s edition, the prizes were assigned to projects focused on material-recycling processes and on their applications.

At the Milan Design Week 2019, Flos presents two new products designed by two masters of contemporary design: Konstantin Grcic and Philippe Starck

COS and French architect Arthur Mamou-Mani presents Conifera, a 3D-printed bioplastics brick installation on view at Palazzo Isimbardi during the 2019 Milan Design Week

For the upcoming Milan design week (April 9/14, 2019) “5VIE art + design” confirms its objective to promote high-quality design, art, and craftsmanship

Until September 2019, Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, the 22nd International exhibition of the Milan Triennale, focuses on restorative design

The 2019 edition of the Milan Furniture Fair pays tribute to the genius of Leonardo da Vinci in the 500th anniversary of his death.