Creating narratives in graffiti!

By Neehar Mishra

Photography: Courtesy the artist

Read Time: 1 min 30 secs

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Puerto Rican artist Sandro Figueroa Garcia has truly redefined street art with his bold use of colours and patterns!

Sense of place: experiential art!

By Leah Linhares

Photography: Marc van Vliet 

Read Time: 2 mins

©de Zweefvlieg

Do you ever wonder what life is like at sea? Marc van Vliet’s installation Drie Streken brings us a bit closer to the answer. 

Yurariro – colour promotes sleeping comfort!

Colour Special

By Emmanuelle Moureaux

Photography: Nishikawa Sangyo Co. Ltd.; courtesy EM

Read Time : 2 mins

Designer Emmanuelle Moureaux and samples from the yurariro collection

Colour expert and designer Emmanuelle Moureaux has conceptualised a new colourful bedding brand, "yurariro" that aspires to introduce joie de vivre in the bedroom! The designer explains...

Aesthetically bare minimum!

By Rutvi Ashar

Photography: Courtesy Note Design Studio

  

Note Design Studio collection for Fogia

Note Design Studio’s collection for Fogia consists of furniture and furnishings that have taken the bare minimum of an accessory and turned it into a beautifully crafted must-have!

Avant -chic : Frank Chou’s global language of furniture design!

By Neehar Mishra

Photography: Courtesy FCDS

  

Oriental Series

Designer Frank Chou’s furniture redefines ‘fusion’ and scores high points on quality and comfort…

Forever: Paying tribute through art

By Leah Linhares

Photography: Courtesy Mark Humphrey

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Fusing art with design to convey heartfelt gratitude, IAnD probes the intent and emotions that drove ‘Forever’ – the war memorial by international award-winning creator - Mark Humphrey.

Jeremy Cole: Getting Creative with Ceramics

By Leah Linhares

Photography: Courtesy the designer

Jeremy Cole

IAnD follows the story of a master artisan, whose mellow but sophisticated style of work with floral-inspired lights has captured not only attention but acclaim, in the last decade...

Tradition, technique and contemporary craft!

By Udita Chaturvedi

Photography: Courtesy the designer

  

Working with Bamboo

Traditional techniques, contemporary designs and modern treatment is the style mantra that young Taiwanese designer Cheng-Tsung Feng adopts for his innovative bamboo art…

Solar urban furniture

Complied by Leah Linhares

Photography: Courtesy Mathieu Lehanneur

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French designer, Mathieu Lehanneur proposes to transform global cities to green cities with solar-powered street furniture…

The arty ê.a.t.!

Complied by Leah Linhares

Photography: Courtesy V2com

  

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Newly refurbished diner Être Avec Toi (ê.a.t.) at the renowned W Montréal defies the age old adage – ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’ with its revolutionary dining concept that offers cuisine in an exciting art-gallery-esque style…

Assemble and Engage – The Parisian Kiosque!

Complied by Leah Linhares

Photography: Courtesy Studio Bouroullec

  

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Designers’ dream-team – Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec stride ahead, proving their profound love for design with their new project - Kiosque.

Full-bodied design – Beer Bar!

By Rutvi Ashar

Photography: Courtesy LABVERT

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Vienna-based architecture and design studio, LABVERT’s design of a craft beer brewery makes a ‘ceremonial hero’ of the product and the experience of gurgling beer!

Keeping it familiar!

By Leah Linhares

Photography: Nacasa & Partners; courtesy IDS

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Spreading love and care since its inception in 1950, popular Japanese baby clothing brand 'Familiar' takes its services a notch higher by opening a preschool under the same brand name in Tokyo!

HM6 'Space Pirate' is Red Dot 2015 “Best of the Best” Awardee

Compiled by Team IAnD

Photography: Courtesy Red Dot

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The MB&F HM6 Space Pirate has won over the 38-member jury of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2015. From 4,928 participants, MB&F’s HM6 Space Pirate has stood out and been awarded the Red Dot: Best of the Best for top quality and innovative design. 

‘Drift’ – Nature...Engineered!!

By Marina Correa

Photography: Courtesy the architect

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Drift - the mesmerizing 9-metre high sculptural installation at the Kempinski Hotel in Dubai is a strategically laboured surface design that juxtaposes the contradictory environment of the hot desert sand dunes with the snow-capped mountains of the hotel’s indoor ski slopes...

Surface patterns as design determinants

By Marina Correa

Photography: Courtesy the designer

 

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UK-based surface pattern designer Kirath Ghundoo dramatizes Wax Revolution, a Mexican chain of lifestyle salons by using bright, quirky and playful surface patterns…

Arty Lighting Design as Urban Identity

Info & Images: courtesy Lightemotion

Photography: Patrick mevel photographe

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Responding to the soul of Cartier Avenue in Québec City, Canada, lighting design firm, Lightemotion create an installation of 34 giant backlit lampshades decorated with select works of art from the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec…

Swarovski Lighting dramatises Actor's Foyer

Info & Images: Courtesy Tjep

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A simple lighting transformation by Tjep makes for a whopping makeover of the actor’s foyer at Zaan Theatre, in the Dutch province of Zaandam, Netherlands.

Street Furniture – Chic & Robust

Info & Images: Courtesy ALTO Design

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ALTO Design’s new Équiparc DELTA street furniture collection impresses with the simplicity of its lines, which evokes both robustness and sophistication...

Engaging through Art in Public Places

Compiled by Pari Syal

Photography: Courtesy Ball-Nogues Studio

 

Air Garden                                    © Joshua White                             Stud Wall                                          © Ball-Nogues

Ball-Nogues Studio designs two public art installations – Air Garden and Stud Wall -  that are as simple in their message as they are complex in their compositions…