Jun 25
Dezeen Wire: this weekend The Sunday Times featured us in their Home section’s top-ten interior sites, describing Dezeen as “indispensable”. Read the full article here.
Oct 11
Competition: we’re giving away five copies of the brand-new Dezeen Book of Ideas signed by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.
Published by Spotlight Press, the 208 page paperback contains 116 examples of design genius, all written in accessible, jargon-free English and lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs.
Covering architecture, interiors and design, this unique book is stuffed full of amazing concepts and revolutionary products, all chosen by the team behind the world’s most influential online architecture and design magazine.
From mobile phones powered by fizzy drinks to cars made of fabric to houses with slides instead of staircases, Dezeen Book of Ideas represents a refreshing new approach to design publishing.
To enter this competition email your name, age, gender, occupation, and delivery address and telephone number to competitions@dezeen.com with “Dezeen Book of Ideas” in the subject line. We won’t pass your information on to anyone else; we just want to know a little about our readers.
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Competition closes 1 November 2011. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.
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Here is some more information:
About the book
Dezeen Book of Ideas is the first print publication by Dezeen. It is published by Spotlight Press. You can buy the Dezeen Book of Ideas online or pick one up in person at Dezeen Space, 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN until 16 October.
About the editor
Marcus Fairs is founder and editor-in-chief of Dezeen and is one of the world’s most respected architecture and design journalists. Marcus was founding editor of Icon magazine and is author of two previous books, Twenty-First Century Design (2006) and Green Design (2009), both published by Carlton Books.
About Dezeen
Dezeen is the world’s most influential architecture and design website, attracting one million visitors each month from around the world. Established in November 2006, Dezeen pioneered a new, accessible form of design journalism and criticism based on the then-new blog format.
Over the past five years Dezeen has expanded its brand to now include Dezeen Jobs, one of the world’s leading online design recruitment sites; Dezeen Screen, the leading design video resource, and Dezeen Watch Store, the world’s first design-led online watch store.
Sep 19
Dezeen Book of Ideas out now!
Posted in: Book of Ideas
The Dezeen Book of Ideas features a selection of the best ideas for buildings, interiors and products from the pages of Dezeen and is now available to buy for just £12.
You can order a copy online or pick one up in person at Dezeen Space, 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN until 16 October.
Covering architecture, interiors and design, this unique book is stuffed full of amazing concepts and revolutionary products, all chosen by the team behind the world’s most influential online architecture and design magazine.
From mobile phones powered by fizzy drinks to cars made of fabric to houses with slides instead of staircases, Dezeen Book of Ideas represents a refreshing new approach to design publishing.
The book contains 116 examples of design genius, all written in accessible, jargon-free English and lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs.
The book’s A5 format makes it highly accessible and the £12 price tag makes it the ideal impulse purchase or gift.
About the editor
Marcus Fairs is founder and editor-in-chief of Dezeen and is one of the world’s most respected architecture and design journalists. Marcus was founding editor of icon magazine and is author of two previous books, Twenty-First Century Design (2006) and Green Design (2009), both published by Carlton Books.
About Dezeen
Dezeen is the world’s most influential architecture and design website, attracting one million visitors each month from around the world. Established in November 2006, Dezeen pioneered a new, accessible form of design journalism and criticism based on the then-new blog format.
Over the past five years Dezeen has expanded its brand to now include Dezeen Jobs, one of the world’s leading online design recruitment sites; Dezeen Screen, the leading design video resource, and Dezeen Watch Store, the world’s first design-led online watch store.
Dezeen Book of Ideas is the first print publication by Dezeen. It is published by Spotlight Press.
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Jul 08
We have extended the opening period of our Dezeen Watch Store pop-up at 55 Neal Street in London by an extra week, due to strong demand. The store will now remain open until Saturday 16 July.
Full details of the store, described by the Evening Standard as “beautifully designed”, can be found in our earlier story.
Jun 14
Dezeen Watch Store has teamed up with the Seven Dials district in Covent Garden, London to present a pop-up store from 29 June to 10 July.
The store, at 55 Neal Street, London WC2, will feature our watch collection plus a dramatic lighting installation by lighting brand Plumen (above), winners of the 2011 Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award. Plumen bulbs will be on sale at the store.
New watches on sale will include the brand new 150 Series by Uniform Wares (above) and the new Aurora by Ziiiro (below).
Seven Dials has recently rebranded as a destination for contemporary and modern retailers alongside heritage labels, and the Dezeen Watch Store pop-up is the first of many design-led retail events that will take place in the area.
Above: the new Orbit by Ziiiro.
Dezeen Watch Store pop-up
55 Neal Street
Seven Dials
Covent Garden
London WC2 9PJ
Dates
29 June – 10 July 2011
Opening hours
10am – 8pm Monday to Saturday
12pm – 6pm Sunday
www.dezeenwatchstore.com
plumen.com
www.sevendials.co.uk
Apr 11
Dezeen Screen is live!
Posted in: Dezeen Screen
Our new video website, Dezeen Screen, has just launched. As part of the launch we’re setting up a temporary video studio adjacent to Yves Behar’s JamScape installation in Milan and we’ll be filing video reports from the Ventura Lambrate district all week. Come and see us if you’re in Milan! www.dezeenscreen.com
Here’s our press release:
Dezeen Screen launches at Ventura Lambrate
Dezeen, the online architecture and design magazine, launches its dedicated video website at the Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan this year (12-17 April).
Called Dezeen Screen – www.dezeenscreen.com – the site aims to become the world’s leading resource for video content about architecture, design and interiors.
The site, which will follow Dezeen’s much-lauded and intuititve blog format, will feature short films made by Dezeen as well as movies submitted by architects and designers about their work.
Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs said: “Video is becoming an increasingly important tool for communicating architecture and design via the internet, and film-making has become an essential part of our journalistic output at Dezeen. So it makes sense to build a site specifically to showcase video content.”
At Milan this year the Dezeen film crew will be documenting events at Ventura Lambrate, profiling exhibitors and interviewing leading figures. If you’ve got a project in the area, we’d love to hear from you! Films will be posted on www.dezeenscreen.com during and after the week.
Dezeen Screen at Ventura Lambrate is in collaboration with JamScape, the revolutionary audio installation by Jawbone and Yves Behar of fuseproject at Pianissimo Grande (number 05 on the Ventura Lambrate guide and map).
Working from a dedicated studio within JamScape, the Dezeen team will edit and upload content during the week, while highlights will be broadcast on a TV screen at JamScape. Pop into the studio to see us at work or to tell us about your project!
Dezeen Screen is calling on designers to submit short movies about their own work for publication on the site.
Our studio at Ventura Lambrate will also showcase watches from Dezeen Watch Store (www.dezeenwatchstore.com).
For further information contact Marcus Fairs: marcus@dezeen.com
Notes:
More details on Dezeen’s collaboration with Jawbone and Yves Behar at Ventura Lambrate can be found here:
The Ventura Lambrate map and guide can be downloaded here: http://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/21/download-the-ventura-lambrate-map-and-guide-2011/).
Apr 11
Dezeen curates audio at JamScape in Milan
Posted in: Jambox, Jawbone, Milan 2011
Audio tracks and soundscapes submitted by Dezeen readers will play this week at JamScape, an experimental audio installation in Milan developed by Jawbone and Yves Béhar of fuseproject.
Following our call for audio submissions last month, almost 100 tracks were uploaded to Dezeen’s SoundCloud account, from which Dezeen, Jawbone and Yves Béhar selected their favourites.
The tracks have been programmed to be played through five monolithic forms constructed from 1,642 of Jawbone’s Jambox wireless speakers (above) in the installation, located in the Ventura Lambrate district of Milan.
Jawbone are also launch sponsors of Dezeen Screen, our new video website, which launches in Milan later today. The Dezeen movie team will be based in a studio within JamScape so pop by and see us! We’re at Pianissimo Grande, Via Ventura in Ventura Lambrate. Download the Ventura Lambrate map and guide here – we’re at no 5.
The 20 tracks selected to be played at JamScape are as follows; each artist will receive a free Jambox and their tracks will also be used as soundtracks to Dezeen Screen‘s movies from Milan:
Outside Time by Agzilla (UK)
Knee For Thought by Antonie Manolova & Francesco Tristano (BULGARIA)
Bears by Brandon Hackler (USA)
Jets by Chris Teeter (USA)
fåglar bilar och dansande piano – BUTTERFLY MIX by en doft av cyrén (SWEDEN)
Midnight_JAM by Ian Gulbransen (USA)
Want to Want by Joanna Geralyn (USA)
Kin by Kasule (UK)
TWENTY 10 by Kid Suda (SPAIN)
Oregon by Louis Jones (UK)
Experimento Tropical by Miguel Colmenare (SPAIN)
Traces by MTTMGG (ITALY)
Dubofeeliac by Nat King Kong (CANADA)
Dance of Lucifer by Navid Asghari (UK)
Fragility by Ricardo Seola (BRAZIL)
DubStepping by The Dead Sun (UK)
Horses Head Towards Sunrise by Theeyefives (USA)
Hello Death by U9lift (USA)
Hotaru Zeus & Apollo (USA)
I Can Feel by Zumba – diseño de sonido (PERU)
Here’s some text about the project from Jawbone:
Set within the emerging Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan, Italy, JamScape is a bold audio experiment that captures the idea of liberating and unleashing sound. Developed in partnership between Jawbone, Yves Béhar, and his creative agency fuseproject, JamScape uses Jawbone’s new JAMBOX wireless speaker and its punchy audio as building blocks to create a uniquely social experience in the form of a sound lounge.
The installation fosters creative partnerships with a cadre of audio artists and enables them to express their ideas of music, improvisation, jamming, and social sound. All soundscapes were crowd-sourced via an open call posted on media partner Dezeen, Twitter, and blogs worldwide to phenomenal response.
Apr 05
Dezeen in Milan 2011
Posted in: Dezeen Screen, Dezeen Watch Store, JamScape, Milan 2011
Milan 2011: Dezeen will be at Ventura Lambrate in Milan all next week, where we’re collaborating with Yves Behar and Jawbone on the JamScape installation and showcasing our Dezeen Watch Store collection as well as making video documentaries about events and exhibitions in the district for our forthcoming movie website www.dezeenscreen.com. If you’re exhibition there and want us to feature you and your work read on…
Dezeen will be working out of a dedicated studio within JamScape at Pianissimo Grande (number 05 on the Ventura Lambrate guide and map). Our film crew will be roving the area from Monday 11 to Friday 15 April, so drop Marcus a line (marcus@dezeen.com) if you would like us to consider filming your project.
Pop into our studio to see a presentation of some of our Dezeen Watch Store collection and pick up our 2011 edition Dezeen stickers!
More info on our collaboration with JamScape in our earlier story. Download the Ventura Lambrate map and guide here.
Dezeen Screen launches next week at www.dezeenscreen.com. Here’s our press release:
30 March 2011
Press release
Dezeen Screen launches at Ventura Lambrate
Dezeen, the online architecture and design magazine, launches its dedicated video website at the Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan this year (12-17 April).
Called Dezeen Screen – www.dezeenscreen.com – the site aims to become the world’s leading resource for video content about architecture, design and interiors.
The site, which will follow Dezeen’s much-lauded and intuititve blog format, will feature short films made by Dezeen as well as movies submitted by architects and designers about their work.
Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs said: “Video is becoming an increasingly important tool for communicating architecture and design via the internet, and film-making has become an essential part of our journalistic output at Dezeen. So it makes sense to build a site specifically to showcase video content.”
At Milan this year the Dezeen film crew will be documenting events at Ventura Lambrate, profiling exhibitors and interviewing leading figures. If you’ve got a project in the area, we’d love to hear from you! Films will be posted on www.dezeenscreen.com during and after the week.
Dezeen Screen at Ventura Lambrate is in collaboration with JamScape, the revolutionary audio installation by Jawbone and Yves Behar of fuseproject at Pianissimo Grande (number 05 on the Ventura Lambrate guide and map).
Working from a dedicated studio within JamScape, the Dezeen team will edit and upload content during the week, while highlights will be broadcast on a TV screen at JamScape. Pop into the studio to see us at work or to tell us about your project!
Dezeen Screen is calling on designers to submit short movies about their own work for publication on the site.
Our studio at Ventura Lambrate will also showcase watches from Dezeen Watch Store.
For further information contact Marcus Fairs: marcus@dezeen.com
Apr 04
Here are some photographs of Dezeen’s new offices at The Surgery in north London, designed by London studio Post-Office.
One wall of the entrance and meeting room on the ground floor is covered by a long golden curtain, concealing doors to the kitchen, bathroom and storage.
The meeting area is furnished with London designer Philippe Malouin‘s Market Table (see our earlier story here) and Hanger Chairs (see our earlier story here).
The first floor office features mobile work benches made of standard-section softwood and grey MDF.
Lamps by Malouin on long flexes and a standard shelving system mounted in one wall allow storage and lighting to be reconfigured as needed.
The interior is painted white throughout with a hardwearing gloss floor.
The Surgery branding is by Zerofee.
Photographs are by Edmund Sumner.
Here are some more details from Post-Office:
Dezeen
Working with a compact space and budget, our brief was to turn an old doctor’s surgery in Stoke Newington into a light, clean place in which the Dezeen staff could work and relax.
The brief led us to develop solutions that were inexpensive and lo-tech, both designing custom items and adapting existing products from Philippe Malouin to suit the needs of the Dezeen office. Within the building, the upstairs-downstairs axis helped clearly delineate a work and relax programme; the ground floor acting as entrance and meeting space, the first floor a separate place of work.
Thematically, the two spaces required different approaches – upstairs was designed as a ‘workshop’, using untreated raw materials and an almost monochrome, muted colour palett. The walls and ceiling are clad in birch plywood, with all other structural surfaces painted white, including using a cost effective hard-wearing floor paint.
The custom designed moveable desks utilise standard shop-bought timber for the frames and grey MDF desktops. Standard shelving uprights are integrated into the plywood wall to allow for an adaptable configuration of shelves, coat hooks and strip lighting.
The ground floor space was designed as a clutter-free, light-filled oasis, combining exuberant touches with the restrained raw material aesthetic established upstairs. The focus of the room is a custom built meeting table, also constructed from standard timber elements with a construction plywood tabletop, designed to hang objects such as magazines and the Philippe Malouin ‘Hanger’ chairs, which can be hooked onto the central bar or lifted off and unfolded for use.
In addition, the clean gallery-like space serves as an ideal backdrop for the Dezeen Watch Store. The reflective gold curtain brings an unexpected touch of luxury and play, whilst enhancing the brightness and warmth of the large skylight overhead.
This project aimed to celebrate economical raw materials and create a space that was flexible, functional and enjoyable.
Established in 2009, Post-Office is a London-based architectural and interiors design practice lead by Philippe Malouin. The Post-Office aesthetic mixes unexpected materials with an artful sensibility to create clean, utilitarian yet often surprising spaces.
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Nov 10
Dezeen and Dezeen Watch Store, in association with Deborah Spencer and Alice Breed, proudly present a new retail venture called The Temporium – a pop-up department store featuring leading designers and brands selling their wares direct to the public.
The Temporium’s first outing will be a Christmas special at 221 Brompton Road, London SW3, from 9-19 December.
Besides Dezeen Watch Store, designers and brands taking part include leading jewellery designer Fiona Paxton, design-led furniture, lighting and accessories retailer Theo, shoe designer Tracy Neuls, stylist Faye Toogood and architecture and design book publisher Gestalten… and many others (see the full list here).
The two-storey shop will be located on one of London’s most prestigious shopping streets, just a few minutes’ walk from Harrods and Harvey Nichols.
Visit www.dezeen.com/thetemporium for full details of our Christmas pop-up, and look out for future editions of The Temporium in London and beyond!
The Temporium is a collaboration between Dezeen, Dezeen Watch Store, Deborah Spencer and Alice Breed.
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