London designer Sahar Zafar on three social-impact projects: End Water Poverty, the Essence of Tomorrow scent workshop with Revoke, and PICO California.
The UK design museums most worth visiting are the Design Museum in Kensington, the V&A’s family of sites (South Kensington, the two V&A East buildings…
In 1964, Terence Conran opened Habitat on Fulham Road, fundamentally altering British domestic taste by proving that modern, well-designed homewares could be both stylish and…
In 1859, William Morris married Jane Burden and needed a home. He was twenty-five, a poet and painter, restless and already dissatisfied with the direction…
By Alexander Stone The 1951 Festival of Britain was a bold initiative by the Labour government to uplift national spirits and showcase modern British achievements…
The Bauhaus was a school. It operated for fourteen years, from 1919 to 1933, in three German cities: Weimar, Dessau and Berlin. It had fewer…
By Alexander Stone Penguin Books, launched by Allen Lane in 1935, fundamentally transformed British reading culture. By offering well-designed, high-quality paperbacks for a mere sixpence,…
By Alexander Stone Harry Beck’s 1931 London Underground diagram revolutionized information design by prioritizing clarity over geographical accuracy. His radical shift to a circuit-board aesthetic,…
The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed the six buildings shortlisted for the 2026 Stirling Prize, and the list carries an unusual symmetry. This…
The Accidental Origins of Glitch Aesthetics A VHS tape warps. A JPEG fractures. A pixelated face dissolves into chromatic noise. These moments of digital failure…