Mauricio Clavero’s LIONOR lamp was one of the highlights of this September’s Maison&Objet in Paris. We were so impressed by this young designer’s multi-facetted (pun fully intended) work that we had to interview him! Naturally, he gave a great account of his perspectives on design …

Danielle McIntosh’s “Hoopla Rack” – a bike rack to carry hoops for the activity know as “hooping” or “hoop dance” – has not only racked up a brace of prizes, including a cash prize at the College of Engineering’s Innovation Days this past spring, 3rd place in the Schoofs Prize for Creativity competition, ...

MetaDesign, with offices in Zürich, Berlin and San Francisco, is well known globally and considered by many to be one of the most respected interdisciplinary design consultancies in business today. Its portfolio of services ranges from strategic brand management to the design and implementation of complex corporate identities ...

An interview with self-taught Danish designer Tom Rossau.

Tom Rossau’s collection of contemporary sculptural lamps in veneers builds on a long Scandinavian design tradition of wooden illuminants. Every lamp is carefully handcrafted and ...

I have to be honest: I could (should) have released this interview a lot earlier. The good folks at studio enPieza! very kindly got back to me just a few short days after we began our correspondence. But since that time, it just seemed to me that our sunny friends from Spain – not just the studio but the whole darned country – had received enough publicity ...

Fusing the best of both creative worlds, architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey founded Studio Makkink & Bey in 2002 and have enjoyed the benefits of joint talents and joint minds ever since.

We had the pleasure of talking with Jurgen Bey of Studio Makkink & Bey.

An interview with Lieke Ypma, Senior Industrial Designer at Vodafone. She deals with the material trends, tactile qualities, form and user-friendliness of cellphones - and naturally with their color.

Shahar Peleg’s interesting take on design is that he infuses everyday objects with additional values, giving them a fresh character and great sense of fun ...

We had discovered Alexandra Tsoukala’s complex and beautiful pleated fabric lamps arrestingly arrayed in one corner of the Tendence 2008 halls. Tsoukala had been selected as among the most innovative of the entire event’s offering and her lamps had been shown in the curated FORM 2008 exhibition at Tendence …

An Interview with Mike Perry

Mike Perry works in Brooklyn, New York as an illustrator, designer, and typographer. He stays very busy making books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, drawings, paintings, illustrations and teaching whenever possible.

An Interview with Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job

I narrowly missed meeting that dynamic duo, Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job, when they came over to Design Miami/Basel this June. But, being a fan of their work, I was determined to track them down and secure an interview …

An Interview with Danish designer Ditte Hammerstrøm

With a single piece, the Bistro Light chair, Ditte Hammerstrøm charmed and delighted visitors to the MINDCRAFT exhibit organized by Danish Crafts at the Zona Tortona Fuorisalone in Milan last April …

Daniel Pelavin, has maintained a studio in New York City since 1979, where he creates illustration, lettering and typographic design for clients in publishing, advertising and packaging ...

An interview with Stephanie Knust and Robert Haslbeck of 10 Liter Design and the Simply Concrete project  at the University of Art and Design Halle at Burg Giebichenstein.

Jean Tuttle began her illustration career in Manhattan after receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design in New York City.

Stefan's work has spanned an amazing amount of applications, uses and media. He is perhaps best known to the masses for his album covers for such stars as ...

I recently had the pleasure to meet Ute Hübler of espírito brasilis at the 2008 Maison&Objet  show in Paris, a very charming and extremely busy promoter of some of the most inspirational and unique materials I've seen in recent memory.

Katja Gehrke is a Stage and Interior Designer based in Mainz, Germany

An open invitation to all designers!

Come have your say on the design trends at the Passagen event in Cologne, which starts today!

Last Friday saw the release of the Ciba^® XYMARA™ animated holiday greeting cards, which you can download, personalize and send by e-mail or MMS to all your friends and family.

Roslyn Collins is a key member of the Ciba^® XYMARA™ team in the Asia region. XYMARA.com took a few moments to get to know Roslyn a little better.

An interview with the artist Devakrishna Marco Giollo

From rock ‘n’ roll rebel to furniture maker – an interview with London furniture maker Paul Kelley

An interview with Oliver Habboub, designer for digital media from Freiburg, Germany.

An interview with superstar designer Stefan Diez about the obligations and opportunities of tradition, the use of wood in his recent work on the 404 series for Thonet, and how design reflects cultural development.

An interview with Estevao Toledo, interior designer from Sao Paulo

An Interview with Kathrin Schiffner, fashion designer and journalist, Berlin

An interview with Vanesa Fernández, Editor in chief of Celeste magazine, Mexico City

An interview with Jason Miller, interior designer from New York City

An interview with Luis Pons, architect and interior designer, Miami

An interview with David Alhadeff, gallery owner, New York City

An Interview with Cecilia León de la Barra Vargas, product designer from Mexico City

An Interview with Choong Ho Lee, Graphic Designer from Seoul

An Interview with Kiyoshi Kuroda, Artist from Tokyo.

"I have been painting plants since my childhood. My parents gave me books with illustrations of plants because I was interested in their names and the way they looked. I went thorough these books again and again, and, after a while, I had memorized the forms so well that I could draw them by heart. The colors are present in my mind."

Music producer and designer from Sao Paulo conducts graphic design as a kind of performance-art in changing environments.