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The Borollecs have an exhibit up at the Vitra Design Museum, which focuses partly on the importance of freehand drawing in their design process. The exhibition emphasises the significance drawing has always had for the conception of objects – from da Vinci to Le Corbusier. T Read more…

Could you imagine yourself living in an empty oil container? Because that is the vision for the future of housing by the Copenhagen-based architecture collective PinkCloud as it has come up with a design that reuses abandoned oil silos by transforming them into affordable housing. An oil silo is a container for compressed liquefied petroleum [...]

Is it 2015 yet? Not from my latest glance at the calendar, but according to Mattel, the Back to the Future hoverboard used by Marty McFly in the second and third installments of the trilogy will be available for shipping this Christmas, with a limited preorder available in March. The official description for the Mattel release - Back [...]

Don’t get me wrong, I love trees. I’ve never actually been caught in the act of hugging any, to be sure. But neither will you ever catch me with a yard without trees. I just couldn’t imagine warming up to a landscape without them. The importance of the vertical element they supply in landscape design [...]

Via Design Mom. I’m definitely more of a wanna-be crafter than the real thing.  The sewing machine on which I once made a cafe curtain and a dress out of old T-shirts is gathering dust, and I’m a bit gun shy about adding any more supplies to my crafting graveyard. But the thing is, I have [...]

The Olympic torch, the Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress and an earthquake-proof table are among the designs nominated for the Design of the Year Award 2012. The longlist, which goes on show at the Design Museum in London next month, celebrates the quality and diversity of design work from around the world in seven categories: [...]