Commercial Design
The Mandarin Mandate
Patricia Urquiola has earned boatloads of critical and commercial success. Ever prolific, she's tried her hand at an astonishing range of products, from outdoor furniture in an overblown wicker weave to a bathtub aerodynamic enough to fly. Her cli...
Tunnel with 40,000 LEDs Is the Closest You'll Ever Get to Light Speed
I've never traveled through space at light speed, but I imagine that standing in this LED tunnel is pretty close to the dizzying experience. The video is just plain awesome.
Amazing Swarovski Store in Tokyo
The store better known for its Crystal Forest has been designed in collaboration of Swarovski and famous Japanese designer Tokujin Yashioka. What’s interesting is that the walls of this store are textured with reflective white relief prisms of va...
Raising the bar
Simone Micheli Architect transformed a former glue factory into a sleek, sophisticated venue that looks out over Italy’s Lake Maggiore
Creative Interior Design
Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai Wins Commercial Interior Design Award Hospital Named Best Institutional And Public Sector Design Of The Year
Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai Wins Commercial Interior Design Award Hospital Named Best Institutional And Public Sector Design Of The Year
We will rock you
Punk, in London’s Soho, serves up a heady cocktail of disco glam, shabby chic and Vegas kitsch courtesy of Rock Galpin Studio
The fifth element
Skylab used the pyramid to great effect in evoking the five elements of eastern philosophy at Sinju, a sushi restaurant with an outdoor feel deep within an Oregon mall
Sicilian Cafe by Italian Architects
Italian architects Francesco Moncada and Massimo Tepedino designed the interior for the Coso Café in Palermo.
Commercial Interior Design
A commercial interior designer faces a diverse amount of challenges that are quite different from those of the residential, or home, interior designer. Many specialties and subspecialties are the focus of the commercial designer, and each usually ...
Restaurant Interior Design
One of the most lucrative subsets of interior designers, focusing on restaurant interior design and related industries, are frequently some of the most sought after designers. These designers, frequently self-employed with incomes at the top of th...
Office Interior Design for the New Small-Business Owner
Congratulations on the decision to open your own office or business. You are finally your own boss, and the only person that will give you orders from now on is yourself. So you walk with a bounce in your step to your new office location, and you ...
New Spirit in the West
Ce De Ce Design reawakens Nelson BC’s Spirit Bar in the haunted halls of the Hume Hotel
Case Study 3: Lucky Voice Pod
The brief: Create an individual, prefabricated, self-contained karaoke room that can be dropped into any bar, restaurant or similar interior space.
Cabin Fever
Product designers, once happy to create iconic chairs and lemon squeezers, are now upscaling to work on interior environments – for aircraft, cruise ships and even hotels. Francesca Gavin discovers their modular approach is paying dividends for br...
Project 1: Gingerboy, Melbourne
Established not quite a decade ago in 1998, Elenberg Fraser is on the cusp of the architectural generation gap. Still considered part of the young generation, the practice is also now experienced enough to be considered for serious grown-up archit...
Studio 508
For my current studio in my graduate interior design program, I’ve been asked to design a restaurant