Through Tender Paintings and Carvings, Hilda Palafox Revels in Care and Communion

For the Chicana feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa, rigidity is a sure path to demise. In her manifesto, Borderlands/La Frontera, Anzaldúa presents what she calls a new mestiza consciousness, which advocates for ambiguity and moves “toward a more whole perspective, one that includes rather than excludes.”

Groundbreaking when it was published in 1987, this theory pushed queer, feminist, and cultural scholars to consider how identity is both fluid and informed by several overlapping factors. It also helped to lay the groundwork for branches of study like ecofeminism, which connects the subjugation of women to the subjugation of nature.

Mesh-covered Buenos Aires wine shop designed to "resonate with the city's texture"

Local studio Juan Campanini – Josefina Sposito has fronted wine shop Enofilo with a metallic mesh facade that responds directly to the complex Buenos Aires streetscape.

At 175 square metres (1,883 square feet), Enofilo opened in 2025 inside an existing house on Avenida Juramento in the rapidly densifying Bajo Belgrano neighbourhood.

The studio worked to create a space that worked with the challenging spatial and stylistic constraints of the neighbourhood.

"The project was inspired by the challenge of working within a city like Buenos Aires – a place made up of...

Valerie Hammond’s ‘Waking Dreams’ Explores Surreal Visions of Nature at the Cusp of Sleep

Carved in low relief on vertical panels of wood, winged creatures, flowers, and mammals populate the surfaces of Valerie Hammond’s dream-like compositions. The artist plumbs the liminal state between sleeping and waking, where reality and fantasy blend and are sometimes indiscernible.

Hammond recently exhibited a new body of work at Planthouse in an exhibition titled Waking Dreams, which is also the name of her series of wood engravings depicting flora and woodland creatures in an elegant, suspended state. Focusing on animals like bats, moths, hares, and owls, the artist brings nocturnal creatures to the fore—those that become active at dusk—in an...

New York in layers

New York in layers is a series of drawings made in November 2024 during a few days in NY. The style is inspired by Stuart Davis, my favorite American painter.

Maternity clinic with cladding to support wildlife among projects from the Royal Danish Academy

Dezeen School Shows: a maternity clinic in India featuring cladding as a habitat for local birds, insects and spiders is among the projects from the Royal Danish Academy.

Also featured is a speculative design project using AI to explore the future of the fashion industry, and an another using agricultural and food waste to produce new materials.

Institution: Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation
Course: Imagining the Future – through Architecture and Design
Tutors: Karin Elisabeth Gottlieb, Charlotte Fischer, Jakob Ion Wille, Christian Lindvang Samsøe and Susanne Jøker Johnsen

School statement:

"What would happen if we dared to visualise a future scenario –...

Design Criticism: Are These Transitions Good or Bad?

In design, the transitions between surfaces are everything. And in a perfect world, those surfaces are designed at the same time, giving the designer the luxury of thinking things through.

Sometimes, however, things need to be retrofit. And then it's up to someone who may not have any design training at all to come up with a coping solution. What do you think of these four executions:

My opinions:

1. Way too busy, and distracts from the original molding, which is meant to be a design feature; downspouts are not. I...

Check Out Colossal’s New Image Slideshow Feature

Colossal has always emphasized great imagery when sharing art, photography, design, and more. We’re often thinking about ways to make the site more interactive and highlight all the phenomenal visuals. This week, we launched a new gallery feature.

In the body of any article, you can now click on images, and they will open in a gallery, free from text distractions other than the caption information—if available.

Navigate with your mouse by clicking the arrows at the bottom of the window, or use your keyboard’s arrow keys to navigate back and forth. If you use the arrow keys or click anywhere outside...

Rimowa and Vitra's Luggage-like Aluminum Stool

This unusual object is the Aluminum Stool, by Rimowa and Vitra.

The German luggage manufacturer and the Swiss design furniture company collaborated to create just 1,000 of these; and while the overall look is pure Rimowa, the piece is meant to be storage furniture, not luggage. "It is almost a typology of its own," says Christian Grosen, Vitra's Chief Design Officer. "While the cube format might not be so practical for a suitcase, it's ideal for sitting and storage."

Industrial Designer Sabine Marcelis Upgrade's Ikea's Hot-Selling Lamp

The VARMBLIXT, Ikea's donut-shaped lamp, was designed three years ago by Rotterdam-based industrial designer Sabine Marcelis. Since then, it's been selling like hotcakes; the company says they sell one every five minutes.

Now the design's getting an upgrade, courtesy of Marcelis. The finish has been switched from glossy to matte, and instead of only coming in orange, she's added color variability:

Community Center in Bercy-Cavaillon Haiti / Emergent Vernacular Architecture (EVA Studio)

© Andrea Panizzo architects: Emergent Vernacular Architecture (EVA Studio)Location: Cavaillon, HaitiProject Year: 2025Photographs: Andrea PanizzoArea: 240.0 m2

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