Ad | Dezeen and SketchUp's (@SketchUp) Design Workshops video series launches today with a workshop delivered by Julien Sebban, founder of Parisian design studio Uchronia.
Across the video series, leading designers describe how they created interior environments commissioned especially for the workshops.
During the first workshop, Sebban describes how he used SketchUp's design software to create a fictional 1970s-inspired bar characterised by soft edges and curvaceous forms.
SketchUp is 3D design software used to model architectural and interior design projects, product designs, civil and mechanical engineering and more. It is owned by construction technology company Trimble.
Watch the full Design Workshop on Dezeen.com
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Ad | Earlier this year Dezeen and Bentley launched the Start Something Powerful Competition - a global contest that called for pioneering proposals that could have a powerful impact on how people live over the next 100 years.
The winners are in. First place has been awarded to South Korean designer Hanju Seo with his EarthCode project (@earthcode.io), a tree identification system for carbon tracking. By blending AI with traditional tree identification methods, Seo's handheld scanner creates unique "Bark-Codes," making carbon credit verification more accurate and secure.
Second place was awarded to Rehan Petit's Bio-Fender proposal to cleanup oil spill using repurposed boat bumpers, while Matthew Pratt's subterranean desert sanctuaries won third place.
Find out more about the winners and the competition at the link in bio.
Ad | London-based artist John Akomfrah has collaborated with LG OLED Art to present a five-screen film installation, on display at this year's Frieze London.
Titled Becoming Wind, Akomfrah's film has been reimagined for the art fair through the use of multiple LG OLED self-lit televisions.
The film explores the interconnecting themes of identity formation and the contemporary climate crisis and is presented across five OLED televisions designed to create an immersive viewing experience.
The installation is on show at Frieze London until 13 October in Regents Park.
Ad | Take a look at the top eight designs shortlisted for Dezeen and Bentley's (@bentleymotors) Start Something Powerful Competition, which called for pioneering proposals that could have a powerful impact on how people live over the next 100 years.
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Ad | Acoustics brand Autex Acoustics showcased its latest product innovations during this year's London Design Festival, including its soon-to-be-released SpinFix range.
The SpinFix attachments use leftover industrial "waste" PET plastic and converts it into a new material, which Autex named RePET.
This new material is then used to craft the SpinFix product accessories.
Dezeen and Autex also hosted a talk on innovative approaches in product design during London Design Festival.
The panel was made up of Jan Hendzel, founder of Jan Hendzel Studio, Megan Dobstaff, design director at Gensler, and Jonty Brown, consultant for Autex Acoustics.
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Ad | Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival (@buildingfestival) hosted its third edition called BuildFest on the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival.
The festival invited students and academics to build large-scale installations that could be adapted for use during a modern music festival. Select installations were used during Harvest Festival, an annual farmers market which took place directly after BuildFest.
The temporary installations are open to the public until 6 October in Bethel, New York.
The festival was supported by Think Wood (@thinkwoodcommunity), a programme funded by the Softwood Lumber Board.
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Ad | The DesignEuropa Awards 2024 has selected four winners from its finalists.
Linet’s Essenza 300 LT won the Industry Award for its hospital bed, while the Transparent Turntable claimed the Entrepreneurs and Small Companies Award.
Yacht designer Chiara Minani won the Next Generation Design Award, whilst Dieter Rams was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to product design.
Find out more at https://www.euipo.europa.eu/en/designs/designeuropa-awards
Italian fashion house Diesel staged its latest show on a runway covered with 14,800 kilograms of denim waste for its Spring Summer 2025 collection at Milan fashion week.
After the show, all denim scraps from the set will be repurposed into materials such as insulation and upcycled denim rolls. The collection itself featured coats and jeans made out of leftover spools of denim thread.
Footage by Diesel
Edit by Simon Volt
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Ad | German luggage brand Rimowa has launched a unisex aluminium handbag. The Rimowa Original Bag is made from a lightweight matte aluminium and comes in two colours, silver and black.
The handbag’s frame is characterised by round edges and ribbed sides which reference the brand’s signature aluminium luggage.
The Rimowa Original Bag launched on 12 September 2024 with a campaign featuring rapper Central Cee, creative director IB Kamara, photographer Larissa Hofmann and model Liu Wen.
The Original Bag campaign was directed by Jordan Hemingway
Photography courtesy of Louise Thornfeldt and Maria Thornfeldt.
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