Design

Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence
A Journey Through Tropical Modernism

London’s V&A museum exhibit highlights an innovative style of architecture that melds with its surrounding climate and serves as a marker of anti-colonialism in West Africa and India.

Blabbi
Language is Plastic

The IRL multiplayer board game spans fashion, art and memes to make crosswords with invented language. They come equipped with prompts in gen z yellow and a new editorial-style campaign.

Marcin Rusak
Admiring Yet Defying the Cyclical Nature of Life and Death

By freezing decaying flowers in time and incorporating them into his pieces, Marcin Rusak defies the cyclical nature of life. Or does he?

Gucci Design Ancora
Italian Design at its Zenith

Gucci’s immersive exhibition in Milan displays iconic pieces that epitomise the golden age of Italian design, cloaked in red and engulfed in green.

Loewe
Lightbulb Moment

Loewe’s Salone del Mobile collection features lamps by 24 globally renowned artists. Cigarette lighter in a rock and hanging gourds: your new way to light.

Bailey Hikawa
Framing the Windows to the Soul

Phones are extensions of ourselves, so why not house them in couture plastic? Handmade or limited run, this phone case brand has you covered.

Unform Studio by Ryan Twardzik
Styling the Drip

Are you a Barbie pink kind of person? Or more of a Santorini blue? The designer invites us to take a seat in his new series of furniture, where colour is the main character.

UVA: Synchronicity
A Sensory Amalgam of Design and Science

We visited the 180 Studios where London-based digital design pioneers UVA exhibit their largest ever exhibition to date until March 17. Don’t miss it!

Nifemi Marcus-Bello
The Importance of Context and People

Until December 10, the Lagos-based designer presents “Omi Iyo” and “Tales by Moonlight” in Miami, two pieces that speak about migration and identity.

Dior Maison
It’s Pearl Time

To celebrate Francis Kurkdjian’s new perfume, L’Or de J’adore, the French Maison teams up with artist Jean-Michel Othoniel on a tableware collection.