Design
COS and Hay update curated homeware collection for Spring 2016
Gravity Sketch app aims to “lower the barriers to 3D literacy”
“Illustrations have become a key component of the response to terrorist atrocities”
John Miller’s Lost maze disorientates visitors with mirrored panels
Konstantin Grcic references Renaissance painting with Hieronymus seating for Paris exhibition
Competition: win a set of six Nathalie Du Pasquier-designed Rubberband notebooks
Makoto Azuma’s New York exhibition aims to make visitors “radically reconsider the power of flowers”
“Mythbusters was a miniature weekly Enlightenment for the modern material world”
Simon Kinneir creates tilting Leaven jug for visually impaired users
RCA and MIT named as world’s top design and architecture schools for second year running
Designers turn to film, becoming agents of “mass communication instead of mass production”
Competition: one Tokyobike and three Ally Capellino x Tokyobike rucksacks to be won
Soo Kyung Bae’s jewellery draws attention to the “thigh-gap trend”
New Zealand rejects crowd-sourced flag design
Floris Wubben etches patterns into Erosion ceramics using heat
Illustrators lead peaceful response to Brussels attacks
Studio Job’s MAD House retrospective opens in New York
Ineke Hans’ Berit outdoor furniture slots together when not in use
Apple Watch is “a three-dimensional exercise in skeuomorphia” says Alice Rawsthorn
Sebastian Wrong launches “competitive” new lighting brand called Wrong London
Max Lamb splatters metal stools for Hem
Apple downsizes its smartphone with launch of iPhone SE
Lee Broom to open pop-up New York store off Soho’s Broome Street
