‘design comes alive when it touches people’: studio empathy’s iF DESIGN AWARD library

VISITORS AS PROTAGONISTS OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN   The iF DESIGN AWARD celebrates design that goes beyond aesthetics to solve problems and enrich human experience. In its Architecture discipline, the 2025 award recognized Studio Empathy, a New York-based firm, for the Assembled Void, Library at New York Korea Center....

uma porcelain tableware collection applies neuroscience to enhance taste perception

UMA tableware by HAK Studio merges neuroscience and design   HAK Studio presents UMA, a tableware collection developed through research in gastrophysics, a field of neuroscience exploring how sensory stimuli shape taste perception. The series includes a swirling porcelain dessert plate and a rough, unglazed, salty bowl....

elmgreen & dragset craft hyperrealistic cinemagoer sculptures in immersive prada installation

Prada mode london hosts elmgreen & dragset’s installation   Elmgreen & Dragset craft hyperrealistic cinemagoer sculptures in an immersive cinema installation for Prada Mode London. Titled The Audience, the project is at Town Hall in King’s Cross, London, from October 17th to 19th, 2025, coinciding with Frieze...

SANAA, sou fujimoto, and DS+R among five teams shortlisted for the louvre’s transformation

five finalist teams revealed for the louvre competition in paris   France’s Ministry of Culture unveils the five finalist teams competing to reimagine the most visited museum in the world as part of the ambitious Louvre – Nouvelle Renaissance project (find designboom’s previous coverage here). Following an...

design leader: White Bear Studio’s Kelly Mackenzie

Kelly Mackenzie is co-founder and creative director of White Bear Studio, whose clients include the dairies Freshways and Tom Parker Creamery and secondhand site Thrift+. Design What would your monograph be called? How to Be Real, Not Robotic: Why Humanity Beats Perfection for Connection. What recent design work made you...

screenless smartphone KARRI makes kids record and send voice messages like walkie-talkie

Kids send voice notes via screenless smartphone KARRI   Pentagram designs the second generation of the screenless smartphone KARRI, a device that lets kids record, listen to, and send voice messages to their parents like a walkie-talkie. Dubbed a smart messenger, the gadget is a display-free alternative to phones for...

Andrea Fraser’s Museum Highlights: Artist as Performer

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Rebelious Princess—Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda, Princess of Éboli

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Egon Schiele: Art on the Verge of Eroticism and Pathology

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The Radical and Rebellious Rosa Bonheur

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