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Michelangelo’s Pietà shines again in Saint Peter’s Basilica

The Pietà is lit with iGuzzini’s new Sipario floodlight, a luminaire specifically designed to meet the lighting requirements of artworks, museum spaces, and cultural venues

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Visionary projects for an energy-sustainable future at the Vitra Design Museum

At the Vitra Design Museum, the exhibition ‘Transform! Designing the Future of Energy’ focuses on how design can shape a society based on renewable energy

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2023 Loewe Craft Prize finalists announced

The Loewe Foundation announced that the 30 finalist works will be exhibited at the Noguchi Museum in New York, starting May 17

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Before Tesla – A brief history of the electric car

A brief history of the electric car; images and description of seven European and American seminal electric automobiles manufactured from 1881 to 1996

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Swedish office Front creates a furniture collection designed by nature

Swedish design office Front – founded by Sofia Lagerkvist and Anna Lindgren – has designed a new, intriguing collection of seating furniture inspired by nature

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When did they get into our homes? A brief history of houseplants

How and when did plants enter our homes? From the 17th century to the present day, a brief history of our relationship with houseplants

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Innovative bike helmet is made of bone-inspired 3D printed latticework

Chinese designers have recently developed a bike helmet, called Voronoi, which combines parametric modeling, bionics, and 3D printing

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Rethinking the world. Radical design in an age of crisis

10 projects from ‘Design In An Age Of Crisis’, an initiative by the London Design Biennale aimed to foster post-pandemic innovative design through radical thinking

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Snøhetta designs new banknotes for Norway’s Central Bank

in 2014, the Central Bank of Norway appointed Snøhetta and Metric Design/Terje Tønnessen to develop the design of its new paper currency

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Shoah Memorial Milan – Morpurgo de Curtis

Located in the city’s Central Station, the Shoah Memorial of Milan is dedicated to the people deported to the Nazi death camps during the Holocaust

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The history of the ISO/BMW Isetta, the world’s first microcar

Manufactured initially by ISO Rivolta in Italy in 1953 and then by BMW in Germany, the Isetta was a revolutionary egg-shaped little automobile and the world’s first microcar

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‘Broken Nature’. Can design save the world?

Curated by Paola Antonelli, ‘Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival’, the 22nd International exhibition of the Milan Triennale, focuses on restorative design

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‘Biotope’ by SHJWORKS. An experimental natural microcosm in Copenhagen

SHJWORKS has recently presented Biotope, an organic-shape urban greenhouse containing a natural microcosm populated by plants and insects.

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Design: Recycling vs Upcycling. What’s the difference?

The distinction between recycling and upcycling really makes sense, and invites us to investigate the very sense of terms such as “sustainability”.

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Italian Icons at the 11th Milan Triennale Design Museum

Until January 2019, the Triennale di Milano features the eleventh edition of its Design Museum entitled ‘Stories. Italian Design’

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MAD creates island-like installation for Audi at Milan Design Week 2018

At Milan Design Week 2018, MAD created a fascinating temporary installation for Audi consisting of five artificial islands amid a large water mirror

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3D printing and digital manufacturing, is this the future of design?

3D printing and digital manufacturing. Available technologies, present situation, future scenarios, and impact on product design and Industry 4.0

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Is fashion sustainable? ‘Fashioned from Nature’ at the V&A Museum

The exhibition ‘Fashioned from Nature’ at the Victoria & Albert Museum investigates how to make fashion creative and sustainable at the same time

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Museo degli Innocenti, Florence

The Museo degli Innocenti in Florence is a museum of art and history located in the famous “Ospedale degli Innocenti” Renaissance building by Brunelleschi

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The Magic World of Joseph Walsh

Despite his relatively young age, Joseph Walsh is one of the most influential figures of contemporary design and a recognized master of wooden furniture art

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Limiteazero designs 5 multimedia carousels for FICO Eataly World in Bologna

Limiteazero and Clonwerk have designed an array of multisensory exhibition spaces for FICO Eataly World, a new agricultural and food park in Bologna, Italy

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Between real and virtual: Roca Gallery Beijing by MAD Architects

Physical and virtual merge into the design by MAD Architects for the new Roca Gallery flagship store at Dongzhimen, Beijing.

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Catalan Design at Palazzo Isimbardi | Milan Design Week 2017

The exhibition ‘Inspired in Barcelona: In & Out showcases the latest Catalan design at the Milan Design Week 2017

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Maarten Baas presents the 101 Chair | Milan design Week 2017

Maarteen Baas presents in Milan the 101 Chair and the Maarten Baas Table produced by Lensvelt

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Lee Broom’s ‘Time Machine’ at Ventura Centrale in Milan

On a white carousel in Milan’s central station, Lee Broom presents his most iconic designs to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his brand

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Design focuses on nomadic living | Milan Design Week 2017

For the Milan Design Week, Base Milano in Zona Tortona hosts “Design Nomade”, an exhibition focused on contemporary nomadic living


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