The Winners of the MOËT HENNESSY-PAD London 2015 prize announced
13 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Check out the winners of the PAD awards announced last night
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THAT’S Interesting John Allison joint head at 4 Creative.
8 October 2015 • Mark Westall
John Allison joint head at 4 Creative what do you find Interesting?
NEW Gagosian London Gallery to open in Mayfair next week.
3 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Gagosian’s New London gallery opens next week
Check Out Koo Jeong A’s Glow-in-the-Dark Skate Park Commission for Liverpool
30 September 2015 • Mark Westall
Liverpool Biennial has commissioned South Korean artist Koo Jeong A to create a glow-in-the-dark skate park for Everton Park (it’ll be like this one she designed in Vassiviere Island in France)
Get a ‘digital detox’ at The Villa Stephanie and be free of ‘e-smog’
28 September 2015 • Mark Westall
The Villa Stephanie a luxury hotel and spa in Baden Baden is now offering what it calls the ultimate luxury
#WeLoveThis : Maggie’s Change Box
23 September 2015 • Mark Westall
LAYER is the first agency to re-think the much maligned charity box
Smartphone backlash: the mobile that gives you your life back
22 September 2015 • Mark Westall
The Punkt phone, launched at the London design festival, lets you call and text. It also has nice buttons and is easy to hold. And that’s about it. Would you pay £229 for it?
Lift-off ! My 90-second ride into the future of virtual reality
22 September 2015 • Mark Westall
The man who put the 3D visual magic into Harry Potter has set his sights on the future of everything – from ‘experiential branding’ to training surgeons. Our critic lifts off at the London design festival
A combination of oak, teak and black walnut creates the limited edition ‘Plybike’
17 September 2015 • Mark Westall
The Plybike
Listen to an open debate on International architecture and Italian design and eat great Italian food.
15 September 2015 • Mark Westall
“Interni Design Aperitivo”: a series of talks that compare, in an open debate, international architectural projects and the italian design manufacturing industry, in partnership with Salone del Mobile.Milano, the world’s leading furniture and design fair.
Beautiful Spaces: The New Craftsmen
10 September 2015 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Beautiful shops are as rare as hen’s teeth, so when we find them, we celebrate them. The New Craftsmen presents the work of English artisans in a huge light filled atelier space. Founder Natalie Melton tells us about it.
THAT’s Interesting Sam Hibbard Director at Somesuch
7 September 2015 • Mark Westall
Sam Hibbard Director at Somesuch What’s Interesting?
A nicer way to fix things : Bear papa screwdrivers
6 September 2015 • Mark Westall
Cute Bear Papa screwdrivers ..
Mario Milana makes furniture that Rocks
31 August 2015 • Staff
About a year ago, I was introduced to Mario Milana, and everything has since changed I now want an entire lounge of his ‘Rulla’ rocking chairs.
WOW check out this beautiful electric bike.
26 August 2015 • Mark Westall
Molded wood and electronics fuse to create the E-Raw electric bike
Arne Jacobsen’s Drop chair is quite simply a ‘Drop of joy’
24 August 2015 • Staff
Arne Jacobsen’s grandson has always been a great lover of the Drop chair, and so he decided to take it upon himself to bring a little drop of joy into people’s homes.
New art gallery from Paris to open in Mayfair.
21 August 2015 • Mark Westall
This autumn, Paris-based Galerie Dutko expands with the opening of its first London space in Mayfair,
ARTIST OPPORTUNITY: Exhibit your art over ten days in East London
18 August 2015 • Mark Westall
Zealous X champions artists’ creativity across 7 disciplines: Art, Photography, Design, Music, Performance, Film, Interactive and Gaming.
Transform your bike into a portable audio system
13 August 2015 • Mark Westall
The speaker works with vibration technology the voice coil of the speaker attaches to a movable plate that transfers the vibrations and energy to a surface on the bicycle turning it into the speaker itself.
Artist Stefan Szczesny’s Art Bikes now available
13 August 2015 • Mark Westall
This summer Artist Stefan Szczesny has painted 33 bicycles for Urbike.
Good Ideas: This French company just took the scary out of shopping for jewellery
11 August 2015 • Mark Westall
Diamonds might be a girl’s best friend but shopping for them is mad intimidating. Gemmyo have fixed that, and with prices from €65, that’s a very #goodidea
A City with a story to tell; Jeddah (Al Balad)
6 August 2015 • Staff
Saudi Arabia is country seldom visited by tourists; it is a country, which is associated with religious pilgrimage and power. The outside world sees little more than economic boom and political dismay.
Weird name and very hard to buy the Arvak Bicycle.
3 August 2015 • Mark Westall
The ‘Arvak’ by Keim is “A quest to construct a responsive cycle that echoes the themes of nature”.