The second in our Design Cities series, Beirut is a model of resourcefulness and adaptability: we look at how the layered history of the city is reflected in its designers' output ...

From unpredictable glassmakers to furniture designers working with bones, textile artists exploring ancient techniques and ...

Design Week: Why did you decide to write this book? Kimberlie Birks: As part of my graduate degree in design criticism at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, I wrote a thesis on playground ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. The world is abuzz with the merits and evils of using ...

The starting point for any design is the design brief. The brief outlines what problem a design will solve. It should be referred to throughout the project to make sure what you are working on will ...

Drawings can be created at any stage of the design process. They can range from rough sketches of first ideas to more detailed technical drawings. A technical drawing is a detailed and accurate ...

Design is everywhere, and it has a ubiquitous presence in our lives. From the cars we drive to the clothes we wear, everything we interact with has been designed in some way or another. But design is ...

We list the best web design software, to make it simple and easy for you to build your website with the features you want, whether as a novice or an expert. Our team of reviewers have tested, reviewed ...

An algorithm has usurped the traditional role of a designer to generate millions of unique packaging designs for Nutella. The algorithm pulled from a database of dozens of patterns and colours to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By a curious turn of fate, one of the world’s largest collections of works relating to the British arts and ...