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North teams up with Peter Saville to create Factory International's new identity

Creative Boom

Photo by Marco Cappelletti, courtesy of OMA and Factory International London design studio North has collaborated with Peter Saville to craft the new visual identity for Factory International – the organisation overseeing Manchester International Festival and managing Aviva Studios, the city's dynamic new cultural space.

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Extraordinary exhibition celebrates millennia of master woodworking in Japan

Creative Boom

A new exhibition at Japan House London traces the development of an astonishing craft tradition, originating in Japan's Hida region and dating back over 1,300 years. Starting with the wood itself, the free exhibition explores tools, techniques and products synonymous with Hida's woodworking heritage. The Carpenters' Line.

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The Top 11 Most Inspirational Projects at Milan Design Week 2024

Design Milk

He uses his expertise and training as a stonemason, sculptor, and woodworker in combination with state-of-the-art techniques to transform materials into captivating and unique pieces of furniture that are other worldly. And at the end of the chair’s life cycle, the material can be reduced to biochar instead of decaying in a landfill.

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Prague’s Designblok Shines a Spotlight on Glass Heritage — and Evolution

Azure Magazine

Today, the metropolis is also an anchor for diverse creative scenes, ranging from architecture and urban design to abstract art and artisanal crafts. This year, the multi-pronged happening — held from October 3 to 15 — placed particular emphasis on the theme of history and evolution.

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The Creative Boom 2023 Christmas gift guide for creatives

Creative Boom

As ever, this guide will help you find truly original, unique and beautifully designed gifts, enabling you to support creatives designing and selling their own products, and the independent stores that partner with them. It's packed with great products such as this plushie with a difference. And it does a neat line in natty gifts too.

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The 10 Most Beguiling Designs at Maison&Object 2024

Design Milk

This year’s theme “Tech Eden” emphasized a dreamy optimism, biophilia, technology, and well-being while kaleidoscopic patterns, neon hues – including yellow, orange, purple, and green – as well as an eclectic pastiche of periods from art deco to 1970s were also on display. Lineair by Baptiste Vandaele with Y.S.M.

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23 incredible packaging designs to inspire you to enter the Pentawards 2023 today

Creative Boom

Big Fish's packaging has used simplicity and bold icons to make the product stand out. Strong iconographies communicate specific product benefits that are human, warm, and approachable. The care and attention to detail towards the product visuals are a homage to the product.