Craft x Tech Returns to the V&A with Six New Tokai Artisan Collaborations.Craft x Tech's Tokai Project lands at the V&A this London Design Festival, pairing six artisans from Japan's Tokai region with six designers from around the world. David Caon's collaboration with Gifu ceramicist Yohei Ito, Fushi, sits...
One Good Connection: What I Found at Jia Curated 2026 in Bali.Jia Curated is hard to describe, which is the first good sign. Not a fair, not a festival—250-odd brands, five days, a talks programme and a beach in Sanur. Dana Tomić Hughes went to Bali for the fifth edition, and came home convinced...
Studio Shields Proves the Most Memorable Interiors Are Layered by Many Hands.Synthesis transformed the Bishop's Parlour at Abbotsford Convent into an immersive domestic interior for Melbourne Design Week 2026. Curated by Ruby Shields, the installation united more than 45 Australian artists, designers and...
You Can’t Fake Energy: Dana’s Notes from 3 Days of Design Copenhagen 2026.At 3 Days of Design, Dana Tomić Hughes went looking for the thing no budget or brand history can buy—the feeling that a space is actually alive. Across several shows and installations, including one chance encounter, she traces the gap...
Design By Them Returned to Copenhagen With Five New Australian Collections.Twelve months after their Copenhagen debut, Design By Them was back at 3daysofdesign—and the encore was anything but a victory lap. The Sydney studio took over Dronningens Tværgade 19 with five new releases from a stellar cohort: Adam...
Inside the Tile Pop-Up Where Architecture Makes You Feel the Material.A retail pop-up for tile and surface brand in New Delhi, this booth reimagines the exhibition format as a spatial installation—choreographing visitor movement through angled portals, curved mosaic walls, and a lenticular art niche where...
Streifen’s Sentimental Pull: A Tender Exhibition About the Objects We Can’t Let Go Of.Melbourne studio Streifen has never been interested in design for design's sake. Founded by Madeleine Murdoch and Frances Normoyle, the practice begins with feeling—and Sentimental Pull, their March exhibition was perhaps the clearest...
Crosby Studios and 22 System Turn Electrical Outlets Into Art.Guided by Crosby Studios' philosophy of Transformism and 22 System's patented approach to integrated electrical design, this installation at Matter and Shape Paris reframed everyday infrastructure as both functional object and...
This Tiny Gift Shop in Georgia Absorbs Its Entire Lakeside Setting Into Glass and Stone.Sitting lakeside at the 60-hectare Lopota Lake Resort & Spa in Kakheti, Georgia, this 48-square-metre gift shop by Studio Gypsandconcrete absorbs its waterside setting into every surface. Led by architect Lado Lomitashvili, the...
