•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Bansari Paghdar Sep 09, 2025
This year’s London Design Festival honours Michael Anastassiades OBE, Lord Norman Foster, Sinéad Burke and Rio Kobayashi, highlighting innovation and inclusivity in design.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 28, 2025
The annual trade fair returned to Javits Center, New York, with a showcase that underscored the value of craftsmanship and sustainability for an evolving design market.
by Almas Sadique Apr 12, 2025
The design exhibition, on view at BasicVillage within the Isola Design District, encapsulates objects that stimulate the mind, vision, touch, movement and emotions of visitors.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Mar 29, 2025
A renovation exercise of a textile production facility in Surat, Gujarat, incorporates natural light by carving out courtyards and skylights within a tight building footprint.
by Simran Gandhi Feb 04, 2025
The Mayoral New Warehouse Logistics Centre features a layered bioclimatic skin in translucent polycarbonate panels and micro-perforated zinc sheets.
by Bansari Paghdar Oct 21, 2024
ADI Design Museum and Cirulli Foundation showcase a century of radio designs and their impact on society and politics in Milan and Bologna.
by Anmol Ahuja Oct 18, 2024
A contemplative look at and visit to the "world’s most sustainable design festival" yields reflections on the idea of sustainability and scale in design programming and beyond.
by Kate Meadows Oct 02, 2024
STIR discusses Pace Gallery’s exhibition of works from the conceptual artist’s newly represented estate with partner Joe Baptista and curatorial director Xin Wang.
by Sunena V Maju Aug 21, 2024
The exhibition Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection discusses responsible collecting practices and the role of a design museum in representing and cultivating history.
by Oli Marshall Aug 08, 2024
Reminiscing the life and works of the charismatic and quirky modernist who, over seven decades, created everything from high-speed trains to toothbrushes, taxis to toasters.
by Jincy Iype Jul 16, 2024
STIR speaks with the Danish luxury audio brand’s head of design, who reflects on her definition of being ‘daring’ at 3daysofdesign 2024.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 02, 2024
STIR speaks with Marco Sammicheli, director of the Milan-based museum, on the French designer’s solo exhibition conceptualised as an interactive domestic setting.
by Anushka Sharma May 01, 2024
A part of FuoriSalone at Milan Design Week 2024, the immersive installation titled Terminal 02 invited visitors to encounter the capricious flow of water in Palazzo del Senato.
by Zeynep Rekkali Jensen Apr 27, 2024
A dialogue of dreams, design and craftsmanship, Porsche and Vitra unveiled limited-edition chairs upholstered in original Pepita fabric at Milan Design Week 2024.
by Ekta Mohta Apr 24, 2024
Akara Contemporary turns into a shop floor for Miyazaki’s recycled and upcycled car parts for Blooming at the End of the World.
by Aatmi Chitalia Apr 20, 2024
By embracing the ephemeral impact of the Olympic games on the city, DPA’s design seeks to adapt to the city’s urban needs.
by Salvatore Peluso Apr 19, 2024
As we approach the event's final weekend, STIR curates and presents an on-ground report of observations from the writer's visits to Salone del Mobile.Milano and Fuorisalone 2024.
by Anushka Sharma Apr 15, 2024
The leading lifestyle brand collaborates with Dr. Samuel Ross MBE with a large-scale immersive installation along with the global unveiling of Formation 02.
by Aarthi Mohan Feb 02, 2024
Discover the elemental beauty of Pinocchio’s design legacy in an enchanting exhibition at the ADI Design Museum in Milan, Italy.
by Aarthi Mohan Jan 21, 2024
Through noteworthy exhibitions and curatorial perspectives from the recently concluded Mosaic Biennale in Ravenna, STIR delves into the fusion of tradition and modernity.
by Zohra Khan Jan 17, 2024
The 'Where’s House Warehouse' sits as a light-filled, glass-clad, office-warehouse hybrid that avoids the impression of being an enclosure.
by Zohra Khan Oct 27, 2023
In conversation with STIR, the Chief Design Officer of the luxury car brand talks about his reverence for drawings, the value of his architectural education, and how it impacts his role.
by Aarthi Mohan Oct 23, 2023
Dutch-Belgian artist, Job Smeets transforms the window displays at Hermès Hong Kong into a gigantic vegetable garden with Hortus Maximus.
by Manu Sharma Oct 13, 2023
The French industrial designer creates mechanical drawings that combine robotic precision with sensitive fluidity.
by Daria Kravchuk Oct 11, 2023
The fair at the historic Ottoman-era shipyard welcomed 21 new galleries, participating in the fair for the first time, and launching the CI Photo Focus section.
by Aarthi Mohan Aug 24, 2023
Lab La Bla-designed workspace interiors of energy company E.ON comprise a vivid ensemble of sun-yellow furnishing and fluid sculptures that draw curious gazes.
by Anushka Sharma Aug 18, 2023
With STIR as the Curatorial Partner, Lexus India announces the call for entries for the seventh edition of Lexus Design Award India with an aim to foster talent and creativity.
by STIRworld Jun 06, 2023
Promising to seamlessly blend the real and the digital world, Apple unveiled its VR headset, Vision Pro, with an intuitive, three-dimensional interface, and other groundbreaking features.
by Salvatore Peluso Apr 06, 2023
The exhibition at the ADI Design Museum in Milan showcases 100 projects by under-35 Italian designers, revealing a great variety of approaches to the discipline.
by Kettal Mar 07, 2023
The Grand Bitta collection dictates timelessness by imbibing sustainable materials in the production.
by Sunena V Maju Feb 21, 2023
The handmade ceramic decanter for Eight Reserve by 818 Tequila, produced by local artisans in Pachuca, Mexico, aims to symbolise Kendall Jenner's brand’s identity through bottle design.
by Jincy Iype Feb 17, 2023
With 'light' as the underlying and overarching theme, Salone del Mobile.Milano's 61st edition announced a rethought trade fair model, with the lighting biennial Euroloce making a return.
by Jincy Iype Dec 28, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR revisits objects that rallied for activism and sustainability this year, from furniture made of upcycled plastic waste to assistive desktop robots for the ageing.
by Jincy Iype Dec 27, 2022
Best of 2022: From Oscar-nominated production designers to trend forecasters, STIR recalls compelling conversations centred on the disciplines of architecture and design.
by Sunena V Maju Dec 15, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR looks back at seven retail stores of the post-pandemic 2022 economy, transfiguring principles of retail design into artistic experiences of stories and brand ethos.
by Jincy Iype Dec 05, 2022
Led by Thomas Heatherwick, the British studio famous for its architectural works unveils its first car design with Airo for IM Motors, as an electric vehicle that filters pollution as it moves.
by Jerry Elengical Nov 30, 2022
The fifth edition of the awards highlights pertinent questions on the future of the global creative economy, with winners selected from among 5,400 entries received from 90 countries.
by Jerry Elengical Nov 28, 2022
Centred on modularity and material efficiency, the electric vehicle concept, designed for SOLID EV, exhibits a brutalist aesthetic in its reinterpretation of a café racer.
by Anushka Sharma Nov 10, 2022
The product design graduate has invented a portable device that monitors topsoil health and can help reverse soil degradation.
by Sunena V Maju Nov 02, 2022
Eraclis Papachristou Architects designed the Lampadistis Wine Distillery inspired by the Lampadistis churches in Cyprus and the brutalist drama of concrete architecture.
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