Calvin Ma is the 2025 recipient of the ISFD Tom Conley Student Scholarship 

Ma, currently a graduate student at California Polytechnic State University in Pomona, CA, is also the recent winner of the ISFD John Conrad Student Pinnacle Awards for his modernly designed Elaine Chair.

The art of South + English

Palmer Linwood Smith and David Ebbetts, founders of the luxury home furnishings brand, are following their creative passions and putting more focus on their own artwork.

Soucie Horner Design Collective expands hospitality portfolio 

The global design firm behind the award-winning Wickwood Inn introduces Fairview in Saugatuck, Michigan, and The Carriage House in Chicago, marking a new chapter for its design-led hospitality vision

Snapshot of the global design scene

To map the global design landscape as it exists now, we asked leading designers, gallerists and makers to share the international creators and markets that continue to expand their imaginations. What emerged is a portrait of design in dialogue between old and new, local and cosmopolitan, tradition and reinvention. From English ateliers to South African galleries, these voices reaffirm that great design is inseparable from its origins, even as it finds its home far beyond them.

DWR’s new modernist landscape hotel in Catskill ​

A collaboration that Explores the Relationship Between Design, Craft and Nature

Balancing creative and commercial instincts

The piece explores the realities of life as a working artist and designer, emphasizing the necessity of selling in order to keep creating. It traces the author’s journey from early career decisions to navigating brand loyalty, evolving product lines, and the importance of “wow” moments at major markets. The article highlights how passion, risk-taking and commercial awareness shape long-term success in the design industry.

World Architecture Festival 2025 winners announced

the three-day festival will see over 460 live pitches from the 2025 finalists in front of over 160 international judges. Today has seen shortlisted projects from around the world compete for 21 award categories within Completed Buildings, Future Projects, and Interiors. Award winners include OMA, Sordo Madaleno, Studio Arthur Casas and NIKKEN SEKKEI.

Design Miami culminates 20th anniversary year with Miami Beach fair curated around Make. Believe.

The fair celebrates Design Miami’s two decades of championing the design avant-garde, with curatorial director Glenn Adamson and the theme Make. Believe., honoring the collectible design visionaries of the past and present, and spotlighting those of the future. Focusing on the intersection between skilled and knowledgeable craft and wild flights of imagination, the theme perceives design as a space of fantastical projection, but a fantasy that is grounded in reality. Imagination comes to life through craft, in all its forms. 

GROHE SPA x Buster+Punch unveiled at WAF Miami

Union of two design leaders makes it effortless for architects and designers to create cohesive bathroom spaces

Fully integrated bathroom concept where fixtures, hardware and lighting align in finish, detailing and design aesthetic 

Seamless bathroom concept was unveiled at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Miami

Sutton Tower in NYC wins International BLT Built Design Award

850-foot Landmark on Manhattan’s Waterfront Showcases New York Luxury on a Global Stage and Ranks Among Top-Selling New Developments of 2025