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Resonance by Studio Lugo layers material memory with the ingenuity of making
Jun 20, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Jun 20, 2026
Founder Doruk Kubilay’s latest collections, Resonance and Mother and Daughter, transform cultural heritage, craftsmanship and material experimentation into collectible designs.
Concéntrico 2026 dissects urban fictions, temporalities and ecologies
Jun 18, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 18, 2026
The six-day festival in Logroño is conceived as an urban laboratory with 24 temporary projects exploring materiality, collective memory and engagement in public spaces.
Kadre Architects transform a dilapidated motel into an inviting housing complex
Jun 17, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jun 17, 2026
Located in East Compton, California, Hub City Heights is a 40-unit permanent housing project with a flexible framework and an expansive parking lot-turned communal courtyard.
Seasons symbolise more than weather in Sohrab Hura’s A Winter Summer
Jun 09, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jun 09, 2026
The exhibition of the Indian photographer’s works at Experimenter in Mumbai depicts the lives of locals in Kashmir and Madhya Pradesh, focusing on the poetics of the everyday.
STIRpad: a launch pad for your new
by Amit Gupta Jul 01, 2021
Explore STIRpad, our brand NEW digital launch pad to help creators, studios, galleries and manufacturers share and demonstrate their NEW collections, exhibitions, special projects, new designs, collaborations, milestones and much more...
India Street Lettering explores a visual art that is always looked at, hardly ever seen
Jun 12, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jun 12, 2026
Typeface designer Pooja Saxena’s book is a journey across India’s streets, capturing over 300 handmade signs in various languages and scripts and some of their makers.
Crossing lines: Queer artists on borders, belonging and nationhood
Jun 12, 2026by Agnish Ray Jun 12, 2026
Queer and migrant identities intersecting at this year’s Venice Art Biennale highlight the normative exclusions of the nation-state.
Nat Pyper’s carrier bags of fugitive stories with A Queer Year of Love Letters
Jun 04, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 04, 2026
The alphabet artist’s recent book details their six-year research and design project, which documented the type designs of various LGBTQIA+ activist groups as an act of preservation.
How long can we continue performing neutrality under the spectre of war?
by Debika Ray Jun 04, 2026
Protests, strikes and exclusions at the 2026 Venice Art Biennale are exposing the fragility of the international order on which the cultural world is built.
Global Design Forum Istanbul framed multiple lived worlds of design in contact
Jun 02, 2026by Jigyasa Sharma, Zohra Khan Jun 02, 2026
Presented in collaboration with People Places Ideas, London Design Festival’s global design discourse—held outside London—attracted the passerby as much as design specialists.
Looking for hope and legacy at NYCxDESIGN in New York
May 30, 2026by Sunena V Maju May 30, 2026
From IKONstudio's Halston revival to USM's Food Form Function, NYCxDESIGN 2026 asked the questions that mattered most: Does design still matter, and will any of it last?
On wells, depth and colour: All is Well at RALPH PUCCI International, New York
May 22, 2026by Sunena V Maju May 22, 2026
STIR in conversation with Ralph Pucci and Eric Schmitt discovers how the former’s journey mirrors the latter’s belief that great design quietly outlasts its own time.
Gabriela Carrillo on the intuitiveness and vitality of brick in a precarious world
Jun 01, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 01, 2026
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