The world's rich and powerful - already bowed under the weight of their great responsibilities - were advised yesterday that they must learn to cope with yet another obligation. Guardian View full entry

25 winning designs from the TenbyTen and Design Within Reach: Modern | Design | Function - Chicago Furniture Now Ccompetition. View full entry

Image gallery of the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show 2004 at reluct.com. View full entry

Using the combination of chemistry, high-tech equipment, concrete expertise, and graphics technology, Intaglio Composites has developed a process which allows an image to be permanently embedded into the surface of structural concrete. Intaglio Composites | Interfacial [03] | Peter Ernst... View full entry

The high end furniture manufacturer Knoll had its initial public offering today... Trading on the NYSE under the symbol KNL, its stock jumped 14% to close at $17.10 View full entry

Archinect t-shirts are coming. If you plan on getting one (or some), please help us prepare by telling us your preferred size. View full entry

San Francisco's Chris Deam updates Byam's 1920s classic Airstream. | wired | sfgate | pics View full entry

- Come win an Aeron Chair, courtesy of Herman Miller! - (You must be present to win.) The Decorative Arts Council of LACMA presents: Lightness A lecture by designer, Don Chadwick Lightness will trace the development of chairs from Thonet to Aeron and beyond with references to architects who are... View full entry

Today's (Sunday's) NYTimes Magazine is dedicated to design, and this time they picked the theme "the thoroughly designed American childhood." View full entry

Taavo Somer, the impresario of Freeman's Restaurant, down an alley on the Lower East Side...started out as an architect at Steven Holl's office but quickly found that his calling was in manufacturing "ironic primitivism"...fauximian chic. Read View full entry

No words to describe this, except that there is a good reason to plan a trip to Berlin in October 2005... via View full entry

Advanced high frequency bonding techniques are used to create beautifully engineered balanced panels from prime selected hardwood timbers and acrylic with invisible gluelines. Panels are offered in 8mm and 20mm thicknesses, and may be used within frames or as stand alone doors or other... View full entry

NYC replaces aging Fifth Avenue and 57th Street holidays snowflake with shimmering Ingo Maurer new one (1433lbs). Read View full entry

Following the latest trend of expanding the scope of services provided by architect practices with the opening new companies Grimshaw launched Grimshaw Industrial Design View full entry

The Design Museum is hosting Under a Tenner. "There is nothing wrong with the chaise longue by Le Corbusier, but design affects every aspect of our lives. It is also about the pencil and the paper clip, both beautifully designed but not terribly expensive." | indp View full entry