IKEA Touts Its 'Democratic Design'
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The design chief of home furnishing giant IKEA was recently asked in China, now home to two of the blue and yellow warehouses selling the Scandinavian lifestyle, if he was worried about being a "design imperialist."
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A 72-year-old furniture company is sustainable to its roots.
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Sweet Home 3D is an interior design Java application for quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan drawn by the end-user, with a final 3D preview.   Sweet Home 3D is an interior design application that helps user placing his furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. This software can be run and installed with Java Web Start from project web site at:  http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ .   Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java are also provided for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux at:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/download .  The new features of version 1.1 include Portuguese Brazilian localization, and the creation and edition of dimensions in plan.
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Company is working on flexible display technologies.
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They look like ads for trendy shoes, handbags and clothes, but the colorful designs that will adorn the Fashion Center Information Kiosk on New York's Seventh Avenue are selling a civic duty rather than the latest style.
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Lars Nilsson, hired to head designer Gianfranco Ferre after the founder's death last year, broke with tradition and used a presentation instead of a catwalk show on Sunday for his first collection.
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Starting next week, IKEA will charge customers five cents for every plastic bag they take home and encourage a third option to the old 'paper or plastic' conundrum: bring your own.
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New York's Whitney Museum, which houses some of the best American art from the past century, said on Tuesday it had picked Italian architect Renzo Piano's design for its expansion and renovation.
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KAA Design Group&#146;s belief that good design elevates the human spirit embodies everything it does. From architecture to interior design to beautiful landscapes, this design house strives for harmony. Part of that harmony comes from using Apple technology to help make its clients&#146; dreams come true.
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The exhibit âClip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazinesâ is a piercing critique, intended or not, of the smoothness of our contemporary design culture.
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Robert A.M. Stern will design Bush's presidential library and 'Freedom Center,' so think conservative and traditional.
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Consumer electronics giant shows off its new wares with an emphasis on "lifestyle," "emotional" and "experience."
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Design specialists dream up Media Center PCs that look more like furniture.
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The furniture maker's management says past is not prelude.
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Costas Kondylis is a successful architect who also happens to be the designer of some of New York Cityâs most polarizing projects.
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Several people are injured as thousands of customers flock to the opening of a new Ikea store in north London.
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A South Korean semiconductor maker said it had pioneered an innovation that will allow energy efficient light-emitting diodes (LED) to light homes, officies and other buildings.