Phaidon chefs relax ahead of tonight's 50 Best Awards
René Redzepi, Magnus Nilsson and Massimo Bottura descend on North London neighbourhood restaurant
Google Doodle for Fellini’s film studio
Rome’s Cinecittà film studio receives the search engine’s occasional illustrated honour
Ten questions for Edmund de Waal OBE
The celebrated potter takes a moment to talk about his exquisitely designed monograph, a new project with David Chipperfield, the myth of tactility and what's better - an OBE from the queen or being signed up by Larry Gagosian
One architect's Swiss village revival in retrospect
You may not have heard of Gion A Caminada but since the '70s he's slowly been transforming an alpine village
New painting show inspired by Sottsass
Hernan Bas’s Memphis Living paintings are an homage to the bright, challenging work of the designer
Phaidon at the Whitney Biennial
Find out more about the artists, curators and writers we’re proud to have worked with at the 2014 exhibition
Ed Ruscha’s first public commission in NYC
His 1977 word painting will appear as a large hand-painted mural beside The High Line next month
Grimshaw designs world’s biggest airport terminal
The British practice, working with two other firms, will build the one-million-square-metre Istanbul Grand Airport
Peter Blake remakes Sgt Pepper for Royal Albert Hall
Pop artist makes a massive mural for 143-year-old venue featuring all the performers who have appeared there
The Insider's Guide to Sao Paulo
Jewellery designer Camila Sarpi on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide
And you thought Shigeru Ban just did cardboard?
New images of the Pritzker Prize winning architect's Tribeca redevelopment show Manhattan life at its most chic
George Lois on Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter
The legendary ad man explains how he got Muhammad Ali and Bob Dylan to help free the falsely convicted boxer
More arrests in abstract expressionism forgery case
Two brothers arrested in Spain and new indictment in New York reveals how the forgeries were created
On Earth Day a new video of Apple’s green HQ
A newly leaked video stresses the Cupertino office's peerless environmental and design credentials
Bruce Nauman by the man who knows him best
Peter Plagens on how America's most reclusive artist was actually inspired by an Austrian philosopher
Ten Questions for Tomi Ungerer
The much decorated children's author and illustrator talks about life in the camel corps, jail breakfasts, how snakes got a bad rep and why he thinks he’s a lunatic
Andy Warhol's Race Riot goes under the hammer
Previously owned by Robert Mapplethorpe, Warhol's screen print is up for sale at Christie's next month
Pawel Althamer stages one day show
Sculptor closes New Museum retrospective with a show of new works in the museum’s storefront space
Drive in church is inspired by motorway signage
Siegerland Motorway Church by Schneider & Schumacher is based on a simple pictogram image
MVRDV brings Vertical Village into your home
Architects' statement on apartment block construction in Asian cities turned into fun furniture line
Meet us at the Food Book Fair
This month we're coming to Brooklyn for a few days of food, writing, reading, and fun
Why Yayoi Kusama’s new sculpture is for lovers
The 85-year-old artist says this new public work for a Taiwanese train station is all about dressing up for a date
Ai Weiwei father and son show in Britain
This summer the Yorkshire Sculpture Park pairs Ai Weiwei’s work with readings of his father’s poetry
Lebbeus Woods’ high-concept architecture in NYC
The late, great American architect, best known for his work on paper, gets a retrospective at the Drawing Center
Ferran Adrià on cannibalism and creativity
The chef delights crowds, fellow chefs and Australia’s media, as he winds up his promo tour on a high
You've got male! (and he's called Tom of Finland)
Art & Queer Culture illustrator Touko Laaksonen is honoured by Finnish post office in new series of stamps
Mies van der Rohe by Jeff Wall and Edmund de Waal
Architect's influence and buildings prove haven and horror for two artists with a very different take on less is more
The Insider's Guide to Ho Chi Minh City
Fashion designer Adrian Anh Tuan on the city's secrets as revealed in our Wallpaper* Guide
What happened when Danny Lyon joined Occupy?
Right from his earliest days with the Outlaws motorcycle gang The Seventh Dog photographer has never flinched from documenting society's rebels. Here's what happened when he spent time with the Occupy protest movement
Wally Olins 1930-2014
The pioneer of corporate 'brand architecture' and champion of intuition dies after a short illness
The things people ask Ferran Adrià
As he winds up his Australian tour we round up the most interesting questions and answers asked by the fans
Sara Cwynar makes something new from anything old
NY photographer uses old images to make new ones that resemble “that junk drawer everyone has in their house"
Banksy attacks surveillance culture with new mural
Street artist on top of the news cycle as ever with new street work and mysterious facebook posting
What’s happening during Print Month?
Galleries and institutions celebrate artistic prints and print making - entry is half price to Phaidon Club members!
The Barcelona Pavilion minus its doors
Photographer Jordi Bernadó reinterprets Mies van der Rohe's iconic building
The book that captured pre-Sartorialist street style
The Photobook III praises the Japanese streetwear anthology Fruits that captured Tokyo styles at their wildest
What did you miss at the Milan Design Fair?
John Pawson’s light designs, Nendo’s dip-dyed shirts and Zaha Hadid’s wall features were a hit this year
McCarthy and Bouchet's Bilbao billboard torn down
Gugenheim says it's a commercial, not artistic, work and 'discredits' the institution
James Franco does Cindy Sherman
Actor says his new take on Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills allows him to 'refashion' the work he does in Hollywood
Wylie Dufresne's big surprise
Magnus Nilsson, Alex Atala and René Redzepi go undercover for the foodie event of the year
Your chance to meet Stephen Shore
The legendary photographer and creator of From Galilee to the Negev hits the West Coast later this month
David Chipperfield's home for the Nobel Prize
The architect’s Berlin office wins the chance to design a Stockholm HQ for the prize-giving body
Connect 4 game inspires Italian storage unit
Still struggling with the middle youth thing? DISK36 evokes happy childhood memories in your living space
Ten questions for Martin Parr and Gerry Badger
Our selfie-taking photobook experts on rarity, collecting and why the photograph is like a time machine
Andreas Gursky’s pre-digital world
Photographer's early landscapes prove he could capture the modern world without recourse to computers
If Ettore Sottsass designed your town
Illustrator Lauren Rolwing imagines a world where Memphis rules
Sarah Lucas debuts furniture line in Milan
Artist says the materials used are "meaningful" and the furniture is "surprisingly stylish"
The Insider's Guide to Havana
Singer Eme Alfonso on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide
Could you live with Studio Job's wallpaper designs?
The Belgian duo's new Archive Wallpapers collection for Dutch brand NLXL go "beyond styling"
Concrete culture from Louis Kahn apprentice
If you loved our book Concrete take a look at this building from the master's last apprentice
Joel Meyerowitz revisits 1960s Europe
The Howard Greenberg Gallery recreates Joel's 1968 exhibition, shot entirely from inside a moving car
Pentagram gives Sotheby's a new look
The leading design studio reworks the branding for the legendary auction house
Ten questions for Nick Lander
The Art of The Restaurateur author on iPad dining and why waiters worry when you nip out for a cigarette
The building they said couldn't be built
Using the smooth overlapping scales of a pine cone as their inspiration Oikios triumph in Switzerland
What to expect at the Milan Design Fair
Dutch designer Hella Jongerius' furniture for Vitra and Artek are our stand-out works among this year's stands
Ten questions for Paris Photo's Julien Frydman
Paris Photo director and former Magnum man talks to Phaidon.com about this month's Los Angeles fair
Two designs cater for New York’s increasing numbers
With a million more residents expected in the city by 2040, two firms propose some out of the box thinking
Marina Abramović to do nothing this summer
The performance artist will be the only exhibit at London's Serpentine gallery from 11 June until 25 August
Neville Brody creates typography for new England kit
Will it be a future design classic that ends up in the next edition of the Archive of Graphic Design?
Hunter S. Thompson's advice to Danny Lyon
When his photographer buddy joined a motorcycle gang the infamous writer implored him to "Get the hell out!"
Wikipedia rolls out redesign
Readers will benefit from (though may not actually notice) subtle changes to typography
Karim Rashid's splash of colour in Miami
Mybrickell features designer's Pop Art-inspired magic from top to bottom
Warhol’s lost mural returns to New York
The Queens Museum is commemorating the Warhol mural 13 Most Wanted Men, 50 years after it was banned
The Bouroullecs debut their glass collection at Milan
The French design duo’s Diapositive furniture collection for Glas Italia picks up where Shiro Kuramata left off
When Danny Lyon met Muhammad Ali
The US photographer shot America's protestors, dissidents and agitators - and the world's greatest boxer
Does this new Zaha Hadid hotel look like a swimsuit?
The Pritzker laureate's latest tower appears to share some aesthetic qualities with her new swimwear range
Why apartheid South Africa's greatest nightlife photographer died before seeing his first show
The Photobook III's Martin Parr and Gerry Badger on the life, work and untimely death of Billy Monk
What did Mies van der Rohe mean by less is more?
The aphorism is one of the most used (and abused) in design and architecture. Detlef Mertins, author of an exceptional monograph on the master architect, reveals how it came about and what it meant to him
Koons, Schnabel and Hadid create Fabergé eggs
Artists, architects, photographers and designers contribute eggs to the jeweller's annual charity Easter egg hunt
Adrià dish inspires award-winning water packaging
Designers draw upon the elBulli chef's use of membranes to produce Ooho!, an edible water carrier
When Danny Lyon was just two dogs in
The photographer's 1962 work, shot in the South, was an early example of a burgeoning confrontational style
Ai Weiwei sends 6000 stools to Berlin
Artist references a seminal 1913 Marcel Duchamp readymade in huge new Berlin installation opening this week
René Redzepi's Tokyo Story
The chef will relocate Noma to the Japanese capital for two months at the start of 2015
Ten questions for Nan Goldin
The Eden and after photographer on addiction, Robert Pattinson, motherhood and collecting human skulls
The Photobook III on show in Madrid
Throughout April the Ivorypress bookshop will display rare titles featured in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's book
Inside the Texas Department of Corrections 1968
In the 1960s Danny Lyon moved to a cattle ranch in Texas. Nearby was the Texas Department of Corrections, a prison complex whose past inmates had included Leadbelly - these are some of the photos he took there
How the world caught up with John Stezaker
The 64-year-old photo collage artist and photobook author is finding success late in life a little overwhelming
Sarah Jones's alchemical camera
Photography Today cover artist explores how subjects are measured and flattened in new series of pictures
Richard Prince inspires Christie’s Instagram sale
The auction house attracts young collectors with a sale named after a Prince painting and lots on Instagram
Jean Paul Gaultier comes to London
The touring exhibition dedicated to the French designer opens at the Barbican next month
Alvar Aalto's Savoy Vase inspires a new hockey puck
Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery's latest idea aims to level the playing field between opposing teams
Tillmans, Beuys and Nauman lined up for Manifesta
The European biennial announces the list of artists for this year's event at the State Hermitage in St Petersburg
Ai Weiwei asks for his passport back
Artist releases video in which he talks of his desire to visit Berlin for upcoming Martin-Gropius-Bau show
Shigeru Ban wins the Pritzker Prize
Judges laud the architect's ability to "respond to extreme situations caused by devastating natural disasters"
Obrist, Warhol and Emin in your hotel room
The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden's new exhibition, Room Service, extends its reach to the town's hotels
Snøhetta unveils two very different designs
New projects in Mecca and on a mountainous archipelago show diversity of architecture practice
How one man and a hyena changed the photobook
Martin Parr and Gerry Badger explain how a personalised documentary approach revitalised photography
How is John Pawson's Design Museum coming along?
Architect and author has opened up the roof but compares the basement excavations to 'marine archeology'
Bouroullec brothers get touchy feely
French design duo unveil first fabric collection with Kvadrat at upcoming Milan Design Week
New Jersey's loftiest building takes to the skies
70-storey Journal Squared provides an architectural counterpoint to late era brutalism of PATH station next door
Shepard Fairey does Ai Weiwei
Street artist and graphic designer dedicates new portrait to Ai's ongoing struggle with the Chinese government
Hotel Hotel is a who's who in down under design
Fender Katsalidis and Suppose Design Office's Canberra hotel ticks the box for every happening design firm
Nan Goldin "People forget how radical my work was"
She may have influenced a generation of photographers but accepts no responsibility for their work
Hans J Wegner honoured in centenary year
'The King of Chairs' is called "the most important Danish designer ever" by curator Christian Holmsted Olesen
Tomma Abts's Painting Abstraction
German artist often takes years over her canvases which she lays on a table, as if writing rather than painting
Fiona Strickland designs new Royal Mail stamp
Our How to Boil an Egg illustrator is one of the artists featured in a new series commemorating WW1
Ferran Adrià on Charlie Rose
elBulli chef talks over his gastronomic legacy as well as capturing the restaurant’s greatest years in print
Stan Douglas’s hard-boiled stage and screen hybrid
The Canadian artist has teamed up with scriptwriter Chris Haddock to create a multi-layered, live film-noir
Pentagram's carbon free foot print
Design agency works with Do The Green Thing charity on environmentally friendly posters
The Insider's Guide to Moscow
Garage project manager Katya Istratova on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* guide
