Creative Bay

By Rutvi Ashar

Photography: Courtesy Daniel Valle Architects

Read Time: 2 mins

©Fran Mateos

Daniel Valle Architects’ conceptual design for an art platform in South Korea is the talk of the town, and here’s why!  It’s a challenging yet beautiful wetland site, with a doughnut-shaped design and high potential as an art hub.

Revisit the classic!

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy the designer

Read Time: 1 min

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Based on the concept of bistronomy, Bistro de l’Arc reinvents dishes and flavours from traditional French cuisine with a menu that changes daily according to seasonal produce…

Creative Chef: a book aimed at the gourmet adventurer!

By Saba Gaziyani

Photography: Courtesy BIS Publishers & Team IAnD

Read Time: 2 mins

Creative Chef by Jasper Udink ten Cate

A good intent gone a little berserk with some overly fantastic ideas; Creative Chef disappoints on the broad platform...

Creative Furniture at Milan Design Week 2016

 Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy the designers  

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With so much design buzzing in everyone’s heads at the Milan Design Week, Team IAnD decided to zero in on some unusual furniture options being presented. Here you go…

5 Designers who will resurrect the style diva in you!

By Emeara & Leah Linhares

©LFW(dot)com

Amidst the excitement and celebration around the just-concluded London Fashion Week 2016, IAnD lists 5 designers, who can make you style conscious this year! 

Optical Illusions Game – a suave brain teaser!

By Savitha Hira

Photography: Courtesy BIS Publishers

Escher’s Thinker Observed by Magritte’s Therapist (detail). 1997. Acrylic on canvas.
Image with spatial contradictions in perspective.The Veldhuysen Collection.© Estate of Jos de Mey.

If you’re a gaming enthusiast and simply thrive on a periodic rush of fresh adrenaline, the Optical Illusions Game is for you...

Delve into Morocco... the ZieZo Marokko way!

By Rutvi Ashar

Photography: Thijs Wolzak; courtesy the architects

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Exhibition architects, Kossmann.dejong in association with Tropenmuseum Junior use ‘interaction’ as key in the design of ‘experience Morocco’ exhibition catering to the idiosyncrasies of a wide audience...

Dark Matter – the luxury of glass art!

By Audrey Teichmann

Photography: Baptiste Debombourg; courtesy v2com

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The solo show of Baptiste Debombourg titled"Dark Matter" at the glass Biennale in la Chaufferie, Strasbourg is a contextual sculptural installation in black glass and float glass… 

London seeped in Design

IAnD Exclusive

By Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy londondesignfestival.com LDF2015  

 ZERO - Joel Parkes' series of hand carved urns at 100% design 

The London Design Festival highlights the scope and diversity of innovative design practices; in the hope that spectators and exhibitors alike will take home an experience that will change his/ her outlook of design!

Design-savvy Designersblock at LDF 2015!

By Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy verydesignersblock.com

Works by jewellery designers-Yarden Aizic, Daniella Saraya and Ayala Uzan

Ideas of possibilities in materials and different cultural experiences dotted the Designersblock exhibition hosted at The Barge House, Oxo Tower Wharf, as an integral part of the just concluded London Design Festival 2015. 

Material Alchemy - "Arguably, a must-read!"

By Ar. Saket Sethi

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What do Squishy Circuits, boric acid caramel; interactive paper and fish granite have in common? ‘Material Alchemy’ is a magical cook-book of recipes to push the literal envelope of build-wear-eat materials; both new and old, that you can create and discover simultaneously… 

IMM, Cologne 2015 - a Report

By Team IAnD

Info & Images: Courtesy Koelnmesse

IMM Cologne 2015

The magic of textiles; the vocabulary of form; an unfathomable basket of interior styling ideas, and a broad overview of international design trends... held audiences captive at the IMM, Cologne this January living up to its intent, “Create, Furnish, Live!”

Looking about-Looking within - Luminothérapie Event

By Anuradha K. R.

Photography: Courtesy the designers

Prismatica - night perspective & Fascinoscope                                                                 ©Raw Design & Lüz Studio

The Luminothérapie Event is all set to enthral its citizens and visitors  between Dec. 10, 2014 and Feb. 2, 2015, with two winning entries from this year’s competition: Prismatica by RAW Design, Toronto and Fascinoscope by Lüz Studio, Montreal...

2nd Istanbul Design Biennial – Future Forward!

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy IKSV

Dunne & Raby                                                     ©Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby collaborator Miguel Angel Valdivia

The 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial curated by Zoë Ryan  - Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago follows the thematic “The Future Is Not What It Used To Be”...

Contemporary Glass Art - VITRARIA Glass +A Museum

Info & Images: Courtesy Ana Berlin Communications

Steven Morgana-It was all ephemeral as a rainbow         © VITRARIA_MAAP - Andrea Liuzza e Valentin

Venice has a new museum - a stunning 16th century Palazzo Barbarigo Nani Mocenigo dedicated to the discovery of the world of glass in its most unexpected forms.

London Design Festival - Reaching Out or Searching Within?

IAnD Exclusive

By Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy London Design Festival 2014

Italian bathroom brand Teuco presents a new range for kitchens & bathrooms

As the buzz of the London Design Festival that has just concluded last night, continues in hushed wow’s, Team IAnD chews on the thought of the colossal participation, burgeoning by the years...

Spring Summer 2015 Fashion Trends for Men

By Beverly Pereira

Photography: Courtesy World Wide Web

Marc Jacobs' and James Long' Spring Summer collection for men

Sashay to the standout trends at the Spring/Summer 2015 Men’s Fashion Weeks in London, Milan and Paris...

Rainforest Pavillion

By Beverly Pereira

Photography: Courtesy the architects

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An installation that mimics a rainforest micro-clime, smack in the middle of a city… 

Paper Symphony

By Marina Correa

Photography: Ernests Sveisbergs & Kaspars Balamovskis; courtesy the architect

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The scenography for the Grand Music Awards 2013 held at the Latvian National Opera House puts the spotlight on origami for heightened aesthetics…

Transformation by Design - Cape Town

By Beverly Pereira

Photography: Courtesy World Wide Web

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As World Design Capital 2014, Cape Town is using design-driven events as a means of social, cultural and economic change...