Create Product Prototypes and Concepts for the New Design Contest: SUN.LAB 2012, “Nature Inside”

SUN. in co-operation with CarusoD’AngeliStudio, presents “SUN. LAB for a creative outdoor,” an international competition for young designers. Continue

Here is NAP’s Winning Project for the Europan 11 Competition

NAP is the winning team for the Europan 11 competition. This is their concept. Continue

3XN’s Green Solution House: “Adapted to the Circulation of Nature”

3XN is the studio behind the experimental hotel and conference center "where everything is adapted to the circulation of nature and where guests will get an idea of how it feels to live in a world without waste." Continue

BraunPrize 2012: Competition for Product Ideas and Ingenious Solutions for a Better Everyday

BraunPrize seeks designers & inventors who can highlight the importance of industrial and innovative products. The product concepts submitted should focus on the essential topics of today. Continue

GLOW: New Competition, Can You Make Copley One of the Greatest Squares in the World Using Light?

Can you make Copley one of the greatest squares in the world using light? This is the main challenge presented in SHIFTboston's new international competition called GLOW. Continue

New High-Speed Rail Station in Spain: To be Designed by Foster + Partners

Architecture and design studio, Foster + Partners, has won an international competition to design Ourense AVE Station in Spain. Here's their concept. Continue

From Problem Solving to Market

How do you get from problem solving to a product? To get some inspiration on how it can be done, here are eight Creatives who share the creating process of one of their works. Continue

Rich Reloaded 2011: Artistic Café-Bar-Restaurant by Ismini Karali

Conceptual interior designer Ismini Karali and her team launched the design of the Rich Reloaded 2011 café-bar-restaurant recently at Glyfada, Athens, Greece. The new project focus on art, optical illusions through different shapes and the love of reading books. Continue

Beppu Art Month 2011 Earthscape Exhibition: Researching the Vegetation of Beppu

Earthscape has rented an old wooden apartment in Beppu since 2010, and has used it as its lab to study the relationship between people and the environment through research on the vegetation, history, and origin of the 2.7 x 3.6 m space itself. Continue

Bjarke Ingels Group and OFF will Design the Research Centre of the University of Jussieu

Bjarke Ingels Group and OFF are the winners of the competition to design the Research Centre of the University of Jussieu, in Paris. Continue

Challenge Your Creativity: 77 Problem Solving Exercises

Sometimes we make the same mistakes over and over again when we deal with problems because we lack in certain areas. By strengthening the connection between different types of problem solving methods – patterns – we learn to deal with problems through different perspectives. Continue

Entering Design Competitions? Contest Jury Members Share Insights about Design

When entering a design competition, what things should you think about? And, what makes "good design"? To give you ideas and insights on how to think about design today, here are experienced contest jury members who share how they think about the definition of good design. Continue

International Design Contest: Do You have Ideas for an Iconic Pedestrian Bridge in Amsterdam?

The aim of this international competition held by [AC-CA] is to design an Iconic Pedestrian Bridge in central Amsterdam. The architecture of this new structure should reflect contemporary design tendencies. Continue

EASTERN Design Office: Seeing Opportunities in an Unwanted Site

This is how Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno from the EASTERN design office makes an abandoned corner in an industrial area, into an interesting architecture design that the town's people can enjoy. Continue

BIG Renovates Transitlager in Switzerland: Tailoring it for Creative Businesses & Workshops

The existing 18.000 m2 Transitlager built in the late 1960s is to be renovated and extended by up to 7.000 m2 for residential and arts related purposes. The architecture studio that will do the job is BIG. Continue

Get Ready to Join a New Product Design Competition: Open to Professionals and Students

Design For a Changing World is the first international product design competition hosted by Delood, in association with Casaviva and Living Divani. Continue

Follow the Landscape Design Development of the Sports Park Stozice

This is how architects SADAR + VUGA are planning and designing their hybrid urban project, the Sports Park Stozice. Continue

Design Counts and 11 Other Lessons From Steve Jobs

In remembrance of the man who made a dent in the Universe, here is "12 lessons Steve Jobs taught Guy Kawasaki":
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SHH Redesigns Café Liberty with Vintage and Contemporary Elements

Architects and designers SHH have redesigned Café Liberty, a 60-cover, second floor restaurant at London’s Liberty department store on Regent Street originally constructed in 1924 using the timbers of two ships (HMS Impregnable and HMS Hindustan). Continue

The Installation Concept of the Theo Jansen Exhibition

Japanese landscaper Eiki Danzuka worked alongside Dutch artist Theo Jansen to establish the arrangement of the "Theo Jansen Exhibition." The installation of Jansen's works in the space captures both the natural setting of Oita and the Dutch landscape. Continue

How MET Studio will Create the War Horse Exhibition for a Family Audience

Experiential designers MET Studio are creating the new War Horse: Fact & Fiction exhibition at London’s National Army Museum in Chelsea. The exhibition will tell the real-life story of the use of horses in warfare right through British military history Continue

EASTERN Design Office’s New Creative Project: The Keyhole House

EASTERN design office has once again accomplished a creative architecture based on a simple concept. This time they have designed a house that symbolizes a key. Continue