John Tree and the discipline of reduction
There are designers whose personality explodes through their objects. And there are designers whose personality fuses with them. John Tree […]
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Craftsmanship
Craftsmanship celebrates the knowledge, techniques and skills behind making. This section explores projects where traditional expertise meets contemporary design, highlighting artisans, workshops and manufacturers working across different materials and production methods. Craft remains an essential part of today's design industry, whether supporting limited editions or industrial production. DesignWanted follows projects that demonstrate how craftsmanship continues to evolve through collaboration, innovation and material research.
Can a sewing machine become the starting point for 10 different design stories?
Copenhagen’s design calendar is once again anchored by 3daysofdesign, Denmark’s official design festival and the city’s flagship Design Week. Running […]
Lise Vester and designing for the mind
Lise Vester, a designer who struck me immediately because of her work. At first glance, her design felt like a […]
Edge and Ribbon, V12 Design know-how meets Chinese craftsmanship
An old Chinese proverb says: “a house is crowned by a gateway”, and this is one of the many inputs […]
CLEANUP brings kitchen, basin and shower into a portable format
Water, in the Western domestic tradition, is infrastructure – something that arrives through walls, disappears through floors, and organises the […]
Design as reconstruction: UNBROKEN at the Ukrainian Design and Innovation Week
There is a question that Ukrainian design has been forced to ask for more than three years now, a question […]
Tom Chung and the construction of a personal design process
When observing designers of a certain quality, it’s possible to recognize a recurring pattern. Beyond differences in language or medium, […]
Guatemala Designs by Hand: rediscovering craft through modern vision
One of the most enriching aspects – for both visitors and professionals – of international events such as Milan Design […]
Salone Raritas and the ambivalent promise of collectible design
When William Morris published his lecture The lesser arts of life in 1877, he asked a question that his audience […]
Thomas Bentzen’s evolutionary design: the art of the industrial archetype
When you look at Thomas Bentzen‘s work, something feels immediately right, but it is often difficult to articulate exactly why. […]
A fictional home, carved in stone, beneath a Brera Garden
Entering the spaces of Via Cernaia 1, where Margraf and Hannes Peer showcased their work together, you enter a space […]
Metalia, a note of materic love from ceramics to metal
Some collaborations work not despite their differences, but because of them. Metalia – the new collection developed by Laboratorio Paravicini […]
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