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New York’s 2026 design week unfolded through galleries, showrooms, fairs, and temporary installations rather than a single defining venue, and its product launches reflected the city’s appetite for pluralism. New furniture and lighting moved between sculptural statement pieces, adaptable...

Jasper Morrison built his reputation through an unusually disciplined relationship with industrial production: chairs, tables, handles, glassware, and everyday objects refined through long collaborations with manufacturers. In 2026, however, he observed a younger London design culture moving in a...

The most radical part of On’s LightSpray footwear is difficult to appreciate from a finished product photograph. Instead of cutting, stitching, and gluing a conventional textile upper from multiple pieces, the Swiss brand uses a robotic arm to spray...

“Frame in Frame: Swiss Design in Motion,” presented during NYCxDesign 2026, treats an archive of experimental films as spatial material rather than something to be passively screened. More than two hundred works made in connection with the Film +...

The inaugural Global Design Forum Istanbul arrived in May 2026 at a moment when design culture is negotiating two opposing accelerations. Artificial intelligence can generate images and proposals faster than ever, while climate, material scarcity, and cultural preservation are...

In May 2026, three functioning arcade cabinets appeared near Washington’s World War I memorial as a deliberately provocative piece of protest art. Created by the collective Secret Handshake, “Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell” used retro role-playing game aesthetics...

A growing group of products is challenging one of contemporary consumption’s most frustrating assumptions: that the person who buys an object should remain locked out of its inner workings. From Kibu headphones designed for children to assemble, to a...

The most compelling material experiment at a renovated Sticks’n’Sushi restaurant in Lyngby, Denmark, begins with something that could easily have remained waste. Copenhagen-based Natural Material Studio used leftover kelp and spirulina algae from the kitchen to create semi-translucent lighting...

A new color can sound like the smallest possible product story, yet Bisley’s Emerald collection demonstrates how finish can alter the character of an entire design language. The British storage brand introduced the rich green tone across products ranging...

Clerkenwell Design Week returned to London in May 2026 with the familiar ingredients of a district-wide design festival—showrooms, installations, launches, and talks—but some of its most revealing conversations were not about the shape of a new chair. Programming around...