Today WeVux presents a design competition for everyone, the China Design Intelligence Award (DIA). It’s the first international prize in the field of industrial design in China, established in 2015 by the China Academy of Art. The 2023 theme is “Design Evolution”. (Cover, Paper Razor, DIA Bronze Award 2022)
Now in its eighth edition, the…
Design for our Future Selves was the theme of the 23rd edition of the SaloneSatellite. The event saw the participation of 600 under 35 designers, universities and schools specialized in the world of design but also international collective groups (Belgium is Design, Design Week Lagos, Young Balkan Designers). (Cover image SaloneSatellite 2022, ph. Ludovica Mangini)…
From 6 to 12 June 2022, BASE presented the second edition of We Will Design: designers from all over the world, schools, universities, international institutions and young students gather in an experimental laboratory of imagination and inclusion, in which design practices and experiences become a tool to read – and, sometimes, solve – the many contradictions…
For Milan Design Week 2022, The Attico launched a brand new format, THE GALLERY. The Attico partnered with New York-based gallery Superhouse to present Super Group 2.5, an exhibition of contemporary vessels by top artists and designers.
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The showcase included 50 functional and decorative objects and vases crafted from varied, unique…
Another exhibition not to be missed at this Milan Design Week was Terre Emerse by KeepLife. For those who still don't know it, Keep Life is a composite material with a wooden nature, malleable and self-hardening, designed and patented in 2017. It is created with the scraps of hazelnuts, chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, pistachios and peanuts, with…
From 6 to 12 June, inside the spaces of Viale Piave in Milan, has been presented WHY NOW? by Spotti. Curated by Mr.Lawrence studio, with a special installation designed by Greta Cevenini, it was neither an exhibition or a design gallery, but an experimental space in which different products entered into dialogue. Unique pieces and furnishings…
After the first edition in 2020 at the Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Design Antidoto is back with the "City Eden" exhibition, at the Serre dei Giardini Margherita, Bologna, from 9 to 12 September, during Resilienze Festival. For the location, Illuminazioni collective, founded by the under 30 designers Virginia Alluzzi and Caterina Capelli, has regenerated one…
The search for new sustainable materials is one of the many focuses of contemporary design and some designers and studios are increasingly exploring this sector of the discipline. Tŷ Syml is one of these practices and was founded in February 2019 with the intention of providing an avenue to explore the research that Adam Davies…
The establishment of Formafatal studio - previously on WeVux - in 2015 was accompanied by the design and implementation of the interior of the Argentinian restaurant Gran Fierro I in Voršilská Street in the centre of Prague. After five years the owner of the restaurant Juan Cruz Pacin was forced to move his successful business…
Designed by Tom Fereday Design (previously on WeVux), SUONO is an elegant sculptural Bluetooth speaker designed to last a lifetime.
SUONO is a unique multi-functional speaker designed to work as table top, wall mounted or travelling speaker centred around a unique removeable magnetic wireless charging hub. Upon closer inspection the SUONO speaker reveals its…