Finnish design goes beyond aesthetics. Discover how Helsinki is creating a reuse movement that puts people and the planet ...

Tomás Saraceno premiers a new installation at Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi. Photograph: Ela Bialkowska / OKNO Studio Get a bitesize overview of the week’s headlines and Inclusivity and representation: ...

&Tradition’s hybrid art-design exhibition aims to highlight the Copenhagen-based brand’s global perspective, inviting five designers and design studios from across the globe to explore the Couldn’t ...

A recent graduate of Norwich University of the Arts, Joanne O’Rourke’s latest collection ‘Harmonious Nature’s Rhythms’ alludes to her love of the natural world and its deep connection to her design ...

In 1964, US photographer Tony Vaccaro travelled to Finland to snap Finnish brand Marimekko’s textiles for Life magazine. His arresting images include an aerial shot of a gigantic parasol emblazoned ...

The exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum brings together objects of the pop era as well as contemporary designs and smart concepts for waste reduction ...

Behind an unassuming entrance, the Aalto House nestles into the hillside of Riihitie in Helsinki’s leafy Munkkiniemi neighbourhood. From the quiet residential street it might take visitors to Aino and ...

In my 1980s suburban childhood, playing in public space was limited to the local park or recreation ground. The common British playground – rusty or graffiti-covered variations on a roundabout, ...

“I have this image of Swarovski being all bling-bling and glamorous,” says Maarten Baas, discussing Thought Cloud, his installation for the luxury brand’s Digital Crystal ...

Isle of Dogs Pumping Station.Photo by Reading Tom via Flickr Popular between the 1970s and 90s, postmodern architecture featured houses with curving forms, bright colours ...