Euro Banknotes Redesigns Explore Europe’s Identity
Ten designs, one currency, a continent deciding how it wants to see itself. Whether it’s Maria Callas or a kingfisher on the note, Euro banknotes are about to get a lot more personal.
Inside Design Parade 2026: French Riviera’s Design Fest
Southern France thrives with creativity: Design Parade 2026 spotlights Magritte-inspired interiors, candle clocks, hybrid lamps, and Pre-Columbian Pokémons.
Crosby Studios’ ‘Home of Football: Home & Away’ exhibition explores soccer’s cultural legacy in New York
Pelé’s 1958 World Cup jersey, rare memorabilia and a bright green carpet: fashion, art, and design collide at the ‘Home of Football’ showcase, exploring soccer as a catalyst for identity, creativity and belonging.
The Design of the Match Ball of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Carries Three Flags
The Official Match Ball for the tournament layers embossed textures, host-nation colours and graphics, and is empowered by cutting-edge technology.
GAME ON: Helle Mardahl Casts Candy Crush in Glass
In Copenhagen, the Danish designer’s GAME ON installation brought mouth-blown glass to life through colour, symmetry, and the irresistible logic of play.
Bread & Butter 2026: designers explore bathing routines through intimate pairings
Teapots, pitchers, soap trays, brush holders – In Copenhagen, the Bread & Butter exhibition explores bathing rituals through design pairings across cultures.
Ukurant Makes Space: eight highlights by emerging designers in Copenhagen
From a lamp using gravity to shine and a lounger tracing the arc of a spinal column. This year’s Ukurant exhibition blurs craft and function.
Fritz Hansen’ SOUND CLUB makes some noise in Copenhagen
A listening bar, DJ sets in the courtyard, and a podcast lounge — music and design speak the same spatial language at Fritz Hansen’s Sound Club. The 3daysofdesign installation explores what great interiors are truly for: composed around people, not objects.
Form Follows Seam: Designers Show What A Sewing Machine Can Do In Copenhagen
Stitched lamps, enfolded chairs, a leather sling suspended in steel — Erwan Bouroullec, Foster + Partners, and more work with the sewing machine for the VÆRKTØJ exhibition at 3DaysOfDesign.
Genova Design Week 2026: Five Highlights in the Italian city
From a compact home in a shipping container to totemic sculptures 3D-printed from reclaimed marine plastic, Genova Design Week 2026 explored the theme Equilibrium through a thoughtful programme of sustainable installations.
3DaysOfDesign 2026: Copenhagen’s Design Celebration
From Alvar, the 90th-anniversary pavilion for Aalto’s vase, to sewing-machine craft and listening bars — here is everything worth seeing at 3DaysOfDesign 2026.
Melbourne Design Week 2026: Eight Exhibitions That Resonated
Champagne buckets, cutlery as philosophy, and 100 chairs. Melbourne Design Week 2026 celebrated craft, material, and process.
After the Fair: QuadroDesign repurposes its Salone del Mobile booth as a public toilet in Zambia
From a five-day fair stand in Milan to a permanent architecture. The QuadroDesign booth by Giacomo Moor is set to provide toilet facilities alongside a coal market in Africa.
Beyond the Obvious: Hazel Villena on Latin Design Identity
Being a Latin designer in a city as open-minded as New York comes with fewer barriers than one might expect — yet, as Hazel Villena notes, there remains a quiet pressure: “expectation that our work should look visibly Latin.”
The Latinx Designers You Need to Know from New York Design Week
From monumental park sculptures to arrival-inspired furniture, Latinx designers brought some of the most compelling work to this year’s NYCxDESIGN.
Resonance: Fung+Bedford’s origami lighting shines in a London church
Resonance is a luminous, large-scale installation that finds its home — and its foil — in one of London’s most ancient and atmospheric Norman churches.
Clerkenwell Design Week 2026: Your Essential London Guide to EC1
Paper sculptures, tactile beads and coffee-ground bricks: Clerkenwell Design Week 2026 proves good design is anything but ordinary.
Light Fantastic: Twelve eccentric lighting designs shine in NYC
NYCxDESIGN 2026: the eccentric lighting designs turning New York’s nights into something worth staying up for.
Joris Laarman weaves craft and technology at Friedman Benda’s Symbio exhibition
In New York, the Dutch designer’s Symbio and Ply Loop collections merge computational design and biodegradable materials.
Inside Uncanny Valley: The Haas Brothers’ Wildly Hybrid World
At the Haas Brothers’ Uncanny Valley exhibition, zoomorphic creatures, algorithmic landscapes, and hand-built ceramics collide.
Six highlights at the inaugural Montreal Design Week
From repurposed convent benches to serendipitous sloping dinner sets and a design exploration of softness. The first edition of Montreal Design Week marked a turning point for the Quebec capital, confirming its status as an evolving UNESCO Design City.
NYCxDESIGN 2026: seventeen must-visit exhibitions in New York City
Biophylic benches, quirky creatures, listening bar consoles, and more. We rounded up some of the best exhibitions and installations at NYCxDESIGN 2026.
Studio DRIFT’s ‘Shy Society’ kinetic installation blooms and glows in Venice
A poetic choreography of suspended luminous flowers dances with the waves in Studio DRIFT’s ‘Shy Society’ installation during the Venice Art Biennale.
Marea by Melissa McGill: Painting the Tides of a City Under Pressure
The American artist transforms a Venetian back alley into a breathing, community-made meditation on water, tide, and urban resilience against mass tourism and climate change.
ALMA WATER: Sara Ricciardi pays tribute to the sea of Sardinia
ALMA WATER transformed Milan’s Cavallerizze into a maternal embrace of billowing fabric, resonant drums, and the eternal rhythm of the sea.
DEORON Returns to Milan with a Curated Industrial Edge
Indie design talent showed off at the DEORON exhibition in Milan. From cutting-edge speakers to brutalist coffee machines.
Salone Raritas: Collectible Design debuts at Salone del Mobile.Milano
Salone Raritas: For the first time, collectible design at the crossroads between unique pieces, high-end craftsmanship and art entered the heart of Milan furniture fair.
Disco on Mars: Atelier Biagetti designs a Space Age experience for MCM
MCM’s Disco on Mars exhibition in Milan mesmerises with Robot DJs, retro-futuristic clubbing, collectible design, and opera singing clash.
Renaissance of the Real: Annabelle Schneider’s mindful installation in Milan
The ‘Renaissance of the Real’ by Annabelle Schneider for USM with Snøhetta invites to slow down and step back from digital overload.
Methamorphosis in Motion: getting lost in Lina Ghotmeh’s pink maze
The Metamorphosis in Motion installation takes over a stunning Milanese courtyard with vibrant colour, bringing people together.