Milan Design Week for Foodies: From Espresso to Negroni Sbagliato
Underground breakfasts, designer listening bars, Swedish food markets, and joyful champagne installations. The ultimate Milan Design Week guide for foodies.
Best of Milan Design Week 2026: Your Essential Guide
From Polish Modernism to Uzbek crafts, US White House interiors, unconventional chopsticks and 3D-printed pasta. Gear up for Milan Design Week 2026.
Milan Design Week 2026: fifteen highlights at Porta Venezia Design District
Mindfulness, taste and club culture collide at Milan’s Porta Venezia Design District, proving that design is very much an act.
Technology meets music: six unconventional speakers at CES 2026
From frame-like sculptures to candy tunes, in Las Vegas, unconventional speakers and audio innovation blend design, playfulness, and immersive sound.
IKEA and Sabine Marcelis reimagine the iconic VARMBLIXT at CES
The updated VARMBLIXT features colour-shifting and dimmable light, letting the atmosphere at home evolve and transform.
Out-of-the-box Candle Design to Light Up Christmas with Style
Brutalist candlesticks, magical LED flames, and flickering A4 paper sheets. Innovative candle design lights up the holiday season.
Tortona Rocks 2025: celebrating 10 years of ‘unframed’ design
From pop aesthetics to research projects and outdoor furniture. Tortona Rock 2025 thrives with unconstrained creativity during Milan Design Week.
Miami Art Week 2024: twelve must-visit art and design shows
A Spanish galleon emerging from the sands, a herd of crafted migrating elephants, and oversized urban jewellery. Check out our design guide to Miami Art Week 2024.
Tortona Rocks 2024: fun and sustainability meet at Milan Design Week
Milan Design Week: at Tortona Rocks 2024, mesmerising installations and thoughtful exhibitions thrive with a curated, responsible perspective.
Design-for-thought: 12 design exhibitions at Milan Design Week 2024
Design-for-thought in Milan: a tribute to the gentle genius of Alessandro Mendini, a convivial design space to foster dialogue across the Mediterranean Sea, a school kitchen for Nairobi‘s largest slum and the Taiwanese perspective on today’s pressing global issues.
Milan Design Week 2023: 15 must-visit design exhibitions
Desacralized chandeliers, Elvis’ sofas, repurposed broken furniture, ultramarine tableware, and knitted chairs. 15 must-visit design exhibitions in Milano.
The Humble Series: 10+1 unconventional pegs pimped with whimsical design
Even the most functional and humblest of objects can be empowered with design. Archipanic’s design contributor Antonella Galimberti had fun selecting unconventional pegs with an artsy, poetic, and quirky attitude.
Milan Design Week 2022: 25 must-visit exhibitions and destinations
Lighting designs inspired by Brutalist churches and temples, a virtuous Babel tower, volcanic rock lightings, anamorphic murales and a design gin garden. The best of Milan Design Week 2022 is on Archipanic.
IKEA launches the ‘Hund Couture’ fashion collection for dogs
Furniture giant IKEA has announced a departure into a rough new area: designer dogwear. The Hund Couture features a new range of designer couture outfits for dogs, made from the iconic blue FRAKTA bags.
Dutch Design Week 2020: 10 virtual exhibitions on show
Judgemental algorithms, living coffins and independent design rising from the rubbles. 10 highlights at Dutch Design Week 2020!
How architecture and design can empower the LGBT+ community?
Despite the pandemic, happy (Virtual) Pride! Companies, architects and designers suggest the business can do more in advocating for the LGBT+ community’s battles.
Coronavirus closes China to the world… and to the global design business as well
China is facing a progressive isolation disrupting travel and business due to the Corona virus outbreak. Some of the country’s international events like DesignShanghai have being canceled, multinationals like Apple and Ikea shut the their stores, the stock exchange goes on a rollercoaster and major production plants stop, pausing whole supply chains on a global scale.
5 cat-friendly designs highlight the mischievous attitude of our “purrholic” flatmates
Ikea cat-friendly designs, architectural cocoons and an interactive app engaging owners with their home alone furry friends…
12 must-see exhibitions at Paris Design Week 2017 spreading creativity across the city
Paris Design Week 2017: a massive talent incubator, slow food dinner rituals and up cycling workshops but also a fungi light show, an olfactive installation and design urns. 12 not-to-be-missed events celebrating creativity in the French capital.
Tom Dixon hacks IKEA bed with DELAKTIG and presents an open source design platform
What if highly industrialized furniture harnessed functional ideas from the online design community? IKEA and Tom Dixon present DELAKTIG modular bed/sofa for nomadic millennials and are set to launch an open source design platform.
Nordic Cinema flat-packs IKEA…
Pop-corns, comfy seats and good-humour, Nordic cinema meets IKEA: get ready for flat-packed vendetta and odd furniture-mates.
Ikea Viral Book-Book
Ikea spoofs Apple style to present 2015 on-paper catalogue. “Not a digital book, not a e-book… but a book-book!” says the company design-guru in the viral the ad campaign.