Stained glass over stag parties: inside Belgium’s first beer spa
Stained glass windows are a core element of Bath & Barley’s interiors and identity by WeWantMore, referencing Belgium’s history of beer brewing in abbeys.
Interiors
New collections from interior designers and consultancies, as well as store design concepts for retailers including restaurants and fashion brands.
Interior Inspiration: Design Week’s top retail, hospitality and workplace interiors
The National Portrait Gallery’s two new hospitality venues and an authentically designed Thai restaurant in Borough Market feature in this month’s top interior projects.
Interior inspiration: Design Week’s favourite hospitality and retail spaces
A food hall in Toronto and Italian restaurants in London and New York are among our favourite interior projects of the month.
What does it take to design a Nando’s restaurant?
A new restaurant in Limerick, Ireland, is an example of how Harrison works to reconcile the tension between local inspiration and the roots of the South African brand.
How difficult commercial spaces can be utilised for “dynamic” nurseries
Delve director and co-founder Alex Raher discusses the untapped potential of transforming empty commercial spaces into early years educational settings.
Interiors Inspiration: Design Week’s favourite hotel and retail interiors
Whether in Amsterdam, Paris or Porto, restoring original features and paying homage to history is a running theme in this month’s interior picks.
Salt handles and microbe packaging: real-life applications for innovative biomaterials
At London Design Festival’s Global Design Forum Shellworks co-founder Insiya Jafferjee and Atelier Luma designer Henna Burney discuss why new biomaterials are struggling to cross into widespread use.
Tyre particle batteries and UV-sensing plastic: inside Materials Matters 2023
Practical examples of bio materials and reuse are everywhere this year as the trade show looks to inspire an optimistic future.
London Design Festival 2023: Talks Guide
Discussions will take place around how innovative materials can enter mainstream supply chains and how we can broaden the pipeline into the industry for young talent.
Design for Planet 2023 sets sights on repairability, mobility and decarbonisation
Design Council chief design officer Cat Drew explains the themes and topics in this year’s Design for Planet festival.
Moves and changes: design industry news
All the latest moves and changes across the design industry
Ikea’s research and design lab Space10 closes after a decade
As Space10 closes its doors, it leaves behind a newly launched website featuring archive works as well as sharing its tools, internal guidelines and collaborator contacts.
Tom Lloyd: Vision Pro could be “one more nail in the coffin” of the desk
Pearson Lloyd co-founder Tom Lloyd discusses how new VR technology could reframe work and entertainment around mobility and movement.
London Design Festival 2023 first Look: ethereal installations and emerging talent
Responding to dips in the number of students taking design subjects, LDF is making an effort to showcase and support young designers.
Interior Inspiration: Design Week’s pick of interior projects
From a rug showroom in Dubai to a palace-turned-hotel in Budapest, here are our favourite interior projects.
“A radical renaissance”: how the climate crisis is changing the role of designers
The third edition of the To Think journal series urges designers to converge with “big business” to devise more effective solutions to the climate crisis.
Things to do in July: the best design events happening this month
Coinciding with the start of the school holidays, this month’s design events include creative workshops for children in Dundee and a Festival at the Young V&A.
National Portrait Gallery reopens after £41 million regeneration project
Wool-clad walls and restored vistas seek to better frame the portraits in the newly renovated National Portrait Gallery.
Interior Inspiration: Design Week’s favourite interior projects
This month’s selection includes a biophilic retail design for an impact-conscious menswear brand and a lighting installation influenced by cathedral architecture.
EE opens retail experience store designed to help customers navigate new technology
The EE Studio was designed with modularity in mind so that it can act as “responsive” retail space that adapts along with consumer trends.
Design Week Awards 2023 – the shortlist in full
We’re excited to announce the full Awards shortlist below. Keep an eye out for our Winners Showcase, which will be revealed later this month on the site.
Interior Inspiration: Design Week’s pick of retail and hospitality spaces
From a restaurant in Barcelona inspired by Picasso artworks to a retail space’s circular redesign, here are our favourite recent interior projects.
What’s next for Ikea as it celebrates 80 years?
As Ikea reaches its 80th anniversary, we spoke to the design team about changing priorities, material developments and what “democratic design” means today.
Which areas of design need investment to reach 2030 sustainability goals?
Following the Earth Day 2023 theme, “invest in our planet “, we asked designers where investment to improve sustainability needs to be targeted.