It’s easy, for me at least, to be cynical about the state of design. Our visual environment can feel bland, everything from brands to buildings homogenized around similar styles. The ever-impending AI ...

The 2025 China's "Most Beautiful Book" award winners Photos: Courtesy of East China Normal University Press The results of the 2025 China's "Most Beautiful Book" awards were released in Shanghai on ...

Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century by Melanie McDonagh (Yale University Press) Religion and art always shadowed each other, but why in ...

From Bjarke Ingels’ harbour-inspired Brick to Naoto Fukasawa’s craned-in Hiroshima, The Monocle Book of Designers on Sofas – available to buy now – reveals how 50 of the world’s top architects and ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Full of concepts, as well as compelling (and sometimes spicy) commentary from series producer Kensuke Tanabe.

Most of us have a mixed relationship with the tent. For some, it conjures memories of childhood camping trips, festival weekends, or nights shivering under nylon in the rain. For others, it evokes ...

What do we really want in a home? Comfort, clarity, calm? Drama, decoration, delight? While you can never go wrong consulting design and decorating books as a source of gorgeous inspiration, you can ...

'Our feelings about the future have become complicated and troubled,' says London-based design futurist Sarah Housley. 'We live in the present culturally, and when the future is mentioned it's often ...

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