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World Cup 2014
We dig into football's influence on culture, and the host nation's enduring allure...
Features
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Hotels: Design Without Disburse
Chronicling the rise of the hip hostel, and no-nonsense design-led hotels...
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Rule of Thumb: Hitching Across America
Hitching across the United States, a very different kind of travel guide...
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Miami: America's New Cultural Capital?
We investigate the growing credentials of Miami's art and design scene...
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London Design Festival 2014
The world's most forward-thinking design festival returned for another extravaganza of creativity...
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Pictoplasma 2014
We interview some of the top character design talent at this year's Berlin extravaganza...
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Milan Design Week 2014
Another year reporting from the frontline of the planet's most famous design fair...
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A Siberian Road Trip
Following a route first taken in 1977, we joined Mazda for a leg of their epic Hiroshima to Frankfurt, 15,000km road trip...
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London Design Festival 2013
The most forward-thinking international celebration of design returns for another session...
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Culture and Creativity in South Africa
We explore South Africa's cultural fabric, taking in both Cape Town and Jo'burg...
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Manchester International Festival 2013
Manchester's innovative cultural festival returns for another session of forward-thinking events...
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City Notes
Just 45 minutes from Lisbon, Casa das Arribas is a whitewashed design haven standing proudly on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean...
Located high above the Atlantic Ocean, close to the cliffs of Portugal's Azenhas do Mar—a seaside town with whitewashed cottages and beachfront restaurants—Casa das Arribas welcomes guests looking for serviced holiday apartments combined with...
City Notes
Fusing fashion and art, Forty Five Ten New York is a breathtaking retail experience that one might confuse with a trip to a gallery...
Occupying four distinct fifth-floor storefronts over a total of 16,000 square feet at mega-money project The Shops at Hudson Yards, Forty Five Ten—the forward-thinking Dallas-founded brand that merges fashion and art—brings the new, the...
Journal
Paul Smith explains his collaboration process, as the design icon unveils ceramics partnership combining tradition and modernity...
Britain’s national treasure, fashion designer Sir Paul Smith (CBE RDI), is globally celebrated for his distinctive coloured stripes that accentuate, individualise and enliven his many fashion wares and accessories. Combining tradition with...
City Notes
Shinola shine on, as the lauded lifestyle brand apply their design noggin to a debut hotel project at home in resurgent Motor City...
Located in a former Singer sewing-machine store and onetime hardware outlet T.B. Rayl and Company, the two buildings—married in a thoughtful restoration by architects Kraemer Design Group before being decked out impeccably by designers Gachot...
Dispatches
Dispatches
As the traditional office shifts toward the more socially conscious, employers may now sing a different tune in uplifting the workplace...
The nine-to-five cubicle office workplace is a relic, clinging onto society like a Brexit uncle who just won’t go away. The rise of creative companies, Silicon Valley influence, the coworking phenomenon … if an office space doesn’t share...
Dispatches
New York-based artist Al Freeman brings her special brand of irreverence to Dallas's Forty Five Ten for a summer of soft...
Al Freeman's summer exhibition at Forty Five Ten's Dallas boutique is a tongue-in-cheek show that turns common objects such as razors, cigarettes, toilet seat covers and lava lamps into mammoth deflating synthetic leather pillows. Located...
Dispatches
Learn how understanding and changing your cat's sleeping patterns can help you make the most out of your own sleep...
What did domestic cats do before the internet? LOLCats to I Can Has Cheezburger?, dogs—traditionally our favoured house pet—never found the same fame online as their feline foes. A 2010 research found that some 42% of Americans identified as...
Dispatches
Another season of A’ Design Awards & Competition wraps up with a myriad of design talent recognised as 2018—2019 winners...
And just like that, the 2019 edition of the A’ Design Award and Competition has drawn to a close. The competition—the world's largest of its kind—recognises the best designers, architects, and design-oriented companies globally; a jury made up...