Design News
Studio O+A Designs Slack Headquarters
Studio O+A recently designed Slack's new multi-floor headquarters in San Francisco. Slack's CEO, Stewart Butterfield, is an avid hiker who goes off grid every year to recharge in the various types of wilderness-desert, mountains, forest-that make up the Pacific Crest Trail.
Sleep & Eat 2019: Social FlexAbility
Sleep & Eat, Europe's leading design and innovation event for the hospitality sector, returns on November 19-20. Under the theme of 'Social FlexAbility,' the show will be exploring one of the most challenging issues of our technology-enabled age through Sleep & Eat Sets - concept guest-rooms, restaurant and bar - and the Sleep & Eat Conference.
Kokuyo Design Award 2020
Submissions are now accepted for the 17th Kokuyo Design Award. The competition aims to gather and commercialize designs that are excellent from the perspective of those using them.
Stantec Completes Interior Design for Muze at Met in Downtown Miami
Stantec has completed the interiors for the 43-story Muze at Met residential building in downtown Miami. Developed by ZOM Living and managed by ZRS Management, the 391-unit luxury high-rise is part of the Metropolitan Miami mixed-use complex located at 340 SE 3rd Street.
DesignInspire 2019
The 2019 DesignInspire will be held December 5-7 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The event will gather global innovative elites, trend-setting design brands, associations and institutes to showcase their creativities via an array of interactive installations, design masterpieces and award-winning projects.
Cushing Terrell Completes Confluence House in Whitefish, Montana
Cushing Terrell recently completed the 'Confluence House' in Whitefish, Montana. Situated on ten acres at the meeting of two rivers, Confluence House is a fly fisherman's dream.
Moving to Mars at Design Museum
The Design Museum has announced a new exhibition, 'Moving to Mars,' that will explore how sending humans to Mars is not just a new frontier for science but also for design.
Here Design Creates Vibrant Identity for Get Up, Stand up Now
Here Design recently created the identity for 'Get Up, Stand Up Now,' a major new exhibition at London's Somerset House.
Green Room and PUMA Kick off New City Store Experience
As part of an ongoing relationship with PUMA, Green Room designed key digital and physical experiences within the new City Store experience, to coincide with PUMA's new partnership with Manchester City.
DesignThinkers Toronto Conference 2019
The 2019 DesignThinkers Toronto Conference will be held October 24-25 at the Sony Centre. Organized by the Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD), DesignThinkers is Canada's largest annual graphic design conference, connecting designers from around the world.
DesignMarch 2020
DesignMarch, Iceland's annual design festival organized by Iceland Design Center, will take place for the twelfth time on March 25-29, 2020, transforming the most northerly capital in the world into one big venue for design.
7th Annual IIDA Best of Asia Pacific Design Awards
Submission to IIDA's 7th Annual Best of Asia Pacific Design Awards is now open through September 12th. The competition recognizes and honors the highest level of creativity and design excellence in interior design/interior architecture projects in the Asia Pacific region. Up to 30 winners across 15 categories will be selected.
ARRCC Designs Luxury Game Lodge 'Cheetah Plains'
ARRCC recently completed the new Cheetah Plains game lodge in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve in the Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Abstract Sconce by SONNEMAN
SONNEMAN has unveiled Abstract, a clean and contemporary wall sconce casting a mesmerizing glow while simultaneously serving as a captivating wall sculpture.
TypeCon 2019 Conference
The 2019 TypeCon conference will be held August 28 - September 1 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. TypeCon is an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts.
Noll & Tam Architects Renovates Mission Branch Library
Noll & Tam Architects recently renovated the Mission Branch Library, a mid-century library in a park in downtown Santa Clara, California.
Kinnersley Kent Design Creates New Visitor Spaces at Hillsborough Castle and Gardens
Kinnersley Kent Design recently completed the interiors for a new visitor center, retail spaces, restaurant and café at historic Hillsborough Castle and Gardens.
Studio O+A Designs Experience Center and Training Facility for NetApp
Studio O+A has designed the new Experience Center and Training Facility for NetApp, a hybrid cloud data services and data management company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Global Talents at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia: Call for Designers
The 2019 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia will be held October 15-19 in Moscow. During the event, as part of its main catwalk program, Russian Fashion Council will hold its second Global Talents show.
Mackintosh Architectural Competition
The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society has launched an open and international architectural competition. Based on two hypothetical 'ideal' houses for artists, envisaged by Mackintosh in c.1900, the competition invites participants to contribute designs for a contemporary pair of houses that explore variations on a theme.
Monotype Unveils Radical New Typeface: Ambiguity
Monotype has released a genre-bending typeface family called Ambiguity. By swapping everything creative professionals think they know about traditional and contrarian views of letter proportions, Ambiguity allows designers to experiment with expressing a range of attitudes and beliefs.
2020 APEX Awards: Call for Nominations
Digital Signage Expo has announced its call for nominations for the 2020 APEX Awards. The Awards recognize and honor achievement in the creation and installation of compelling viewer content and interactive technology.
Salone del Mobile.Milano Shanghai 2019
The fourth Salone del Mobile.Milano Shanghai will be held this November 20-22, featuring highlights from the Milan edition, including Design -- functional, innovative, and attractive products -- and xLux -- products that combine classical elegance with contemporary design.
Pride Photo Award 2019
The 2019 Pride Photo Award, an international photo contest for top quality photography about sexual and gender diversity, is now open for entries.
Communication Arts 2020 Typography Competition
Communication Arts is calling for entries for its 10th annual Typography Competition. The competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering.
2019 Core77 Conference
Core77's next design conference, The Third Wave, will take place on October 4 at New Lab in Brooklyn. The conference offers attendees a full day of inspiration, introspection and design exploration.
Nissen Richards Studio Designs 'Manolo Blahnik at the Wallace Collection'
'An Enquiring Mind: Manolo Blahnik at the Wallace Collection' exhibition in London displays the most famous shoes from the legendary footwear designer's archive, set amongst the world-renowned paintings and objects of the collection's 18th-century rooms.
Neil Tomlinson Architects Completes Archive Project for Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust
The Royal Borough of Greenwich recently commissioned Neil Tomlinson Architects to help transition, store and protect the fascinating and highly-varied archive of historic objects and documents managed by Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust, as it moved from its original home in Woolwich, by the Thames, to a new store in Charlton.
Ian Snow Launches New Verbal and Visual Identity
Reed Words and Pattrn have today revealed the new brand identity for designer furniture brand Ian Snow. Ian Snow is an independent, designer furniture and homewares brand based on a farm in Devon.
Brodie Neill to Debut Latitude at 2019 London Design Festival
Brodie Neill will debut his new piece, Latitude, at the 2019 London Design Festival. Neill has been invited by design research gallery Matter of Stuff to re-imagine the past into the present with recycled furniture.
