News July 4, 2019

Call for Entries - Sixth annual SEED Awards for excellence in public interest design

Design Corps and the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Network are pleased to announce the Sixth Annual SEED Awards. Recognizing excellence in social, economic, and environmental design, the SEED Awards represent the confluence of forces needed to create truly sustainable projects and change in the world. Six projects will be selected through a competitive jury […]

News July 4, 2019

Here why Renoir does not 'suck at painting'

The Guardian gathers the paintings that prove what daft philistines the ‘Renoir sucks at painting’ protesters truly are It has happened. The gates have fallen. Artistic civilisation has collapsed. A mob has gathered outside the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, demanding that Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s paintings be removed from its walls because they “suck”. This is […]

News July 4, 2019

INSPIRA is the first publicly available kitchen design by CetraRuddy

Rooted in the notion that the kitchen is the heart of today’s home, CetraRuddy has designed their first publicly available kitchen design to be called INSPIRA. INSPIRA is designed to elevate the kitchen into a central living space in the home with attention to scale, proportion and exceptional handcrafted quality. Made in Italy, INSPIRA creates […]

News November 22, 2019

Construction starts in Singapore on Early Years International School

This milestone scheme in the field of pre-school education will deliver a multicultural educational facility for over 2,000 pupils and 400 support staff Bogle Architects have developed an architectural and educational vision that will provide a rich learning environment for pupils, parents, and staff. The design responds to the challenge of making a very large […]

News July 24, 2020

Big data-powered chandelier reveals how world’s greenest building is performing

Conceived and created by design firm ESI Design, The Beacon is a first-of-its-kind, light-and-sound installation soaring 30-feet-high in the lobby of The Tower at PNC Plaza in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The transparent, sculptural structure interprets and visualizes data from the building’s advanced green systems and current environmental conditions like weather and sunlight. Through ever-changing light, color, […]

Videos July 4, 2019

SUMER is a 3D Animation Short-Film by Alvaro García

Since it started screening internationally in October 2014, SUMER has won 14 festivals including Irvine Film Festival and Phoenix Comicon, among others. For unknown reasons, the Earth's ionosphere has weakened dramatically during the course of the last century, resulting in the collapse of the entire ecosystem. Earth has become an increasingly hostile and uninhabitable place […]

News July 4, 2019

Real-time co-authoring - a perk of the new Office 2016

Microsoft launched their new Office 2016 which includes Word, Excel and Powerpoint and it lets co-authoring on Word documents in real time. They also launched a private preview of GigJam, a tool that promises to let workgroups collaborate across devices and applications, which Microsoft will add that to the Office 365 mix next year. The […]

News July 4, 2019

Zara Larsson performs new song in a video recorded on Gothenburg’s electric bus route

Unsuspecting passengers could hardly believe their eyes when they boarded the bus on 7 September and stepped right into a Zara Larsson concert. During the Silent Bus Sessions, the Swedish artist performed unique versions of two songs on board one of Gothenburg’s new electric buses. Music videos of the performance are now being released. The […]

News July 4, 2019

MATTER OF STUFF at the London Hospital Club Gallery

The Hospital Club and Matter of Stuff, architecture studio and online design gallery to present an exhibition works by European designers during London Design Festival 2015. Open from Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th September, the exhibition will show the concept and stories as well as the processes and methodologies explored by the designers in their […]

News July 4, 2019

Vancouver building is featuring a Janice Wright Cheney bear in its garden

Janice Wright Cheney examines the historical and cultural ideas that shape western understandings of the natural world. Using variety of techniques and materials, her works may be embroidered, knit, hand-dyed, felted, or sewn from recycled materials. The results range from museum boxes with pinned insect specimens to an installation of bears made from red roses. […]