The world’s largest independent design consultancy, Pentagram, is owned and run by 24 partners, each of whom are pioneers in their respective fields – Jon Marshall being one of them. From light-based quantum computers to everyday frying pans, the industrial designer illustrates the continued relevance, and joy, of great design.

Deyan Sudjic, who moved into a crumbling warehouse when London’s docks were still derelict and deserted, traces its transformation and legacy

Charles Jencks’ iconic postmodernist home in west London, Cosmic House, announces its reopening as a museum in September, featuring a new exhibition space. Deyan Sudjic – Wallpaper* contributing editor and director emeritus of London’s Design Museum – recalls the house’s storied past and previews its restoration

Antonio Citterio designed the Groundpiece sofa for Flexform in 2001: twenty years on, we chart the architect’s history of collaboration with the Italian furniture company, and discover his view on redefining domestic interiors.

The British-Canadian designer, who has worked for Tom Dixon and taught at the Royal College of Art, invites creative limitations to conjure his eclectic and soulful works – from chairs to buildings – into being

For many years, new designers had a tough time getting their start in London. But now our city is the beating heart of the international scene. In present day London, Ron Arad’s Chalk Farm studio is an essential stop on the international design circuit. - published in the Evening Standard, 15th October 2020

The power of good design cannot be underestimated. Done right, every facet of an object, building, service or system can combine to deliver more than the sum of its parts. And while our first encounter with design might be visual, its power to play across senses other than sight is what distinguishes good from best.

Graphic designer and creator of the I ❤️ NY logo, whose work was full of colour and wit. Not many graphic designers manage to touch the wider world and reach beyond those who, like them, spend a great deal of time worrying about the relative legibility of serif and sans serif fonts. Milton Glaser, who has died aged 91, touched almost everybody with a project that was both entirely characteristic of his approach to design, and at the same time an atypical one-off. - published in The Guardian, 10 July 2020

What makes a furniture designer? Martino Gamper has been a chef, a carpenter, a hitch-hiker. From the mass-produced to the individual crafted object, Deyan Sudjic profiles the multifaceted creator

Somewhere on the steppes of Central Asia, midway between Europe and China, is the city of Tashkent. Invaded by successive waves of Arabs and Persians, sacked by Genghis Khan in 1219, and colonised by the Russian Empire in 1865, the Silk Road hub has been home to Kazakhs, Tajiks, Turkmen, both Bukharan and Ashkenazi Jews, Koreans, Ukrainians, Poles, Tatars, ethnic Germans and Japanese prisoners of war, finally becoming the capital of an independent Uzbekistan after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. - published in Wallpaper, 27 Apr 2020

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition showcases over 500 objects, including production documents, props, set designs and storyboards from the American director's "genre-defining" films, such as The Shining, Barry Lyndon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket and A Clockwork Orange. - published in Dezeen, 26 April 2019