conceptual design
200 works match
Glitches and bits - Apfel designs Bit Rot for Douglas Coupland
2016
Graphic designer Joosung Kang uses illustration to communicate complex ideas
2019
Mårten Lange: Landmark
2010
Chris Harnan's World Problem Solution Book is a diary, but not in the traditional sense
2018
Flower Power! Designer Ryan Dunn furnishes our minds with possibility
2012
Karrie Fransman: The House That Groaned
2012
Kingston grad Harry Grundy's design work has a highly conceptual bias
2016
Wardrobes like you've never seen them before from sculptor Hannes Van Severen
2012
Art: Giuseppe Colarusso dares us with frustrating games and impossible products
2013
Noma Bar at KK Outlet
2010
Menswear gets fun and frivolous in these lookbooks from Agi & Sam
2012
Michela Zoppi's conceptual approach to graphic design explores the social role of the designer
2018
Conceptual yet functional typographic design from Sheffield's Daniel Reed
2016
Bureau Borsche talks us through its album artwork for Laurel Halo
2017
Close your eyes and wish you had the imagination and talent of Brecht Vandenbroucke
2012
Proposed Identities: Vanessa Lam's stunning branding for a conceptual enterprise
2012
Manuel Raeder blurs the boundaries of design like a conceptual artist
2012
A city on wheels? Architect Jägnefält Milton has to be a genius
2012
Taylor Holland: Eurobus
2011
Los Angeles’ A+D Museum plans to show visionary designs for a city that never was
2013
Wow-wee! Elisabeth Moch's new site reminds us why we're such massive fans of her beautiful work
2012
LDF 2012: Nendo's chairs ghost through the V&A
2012
Project Projects bring Anne Tyng Inhabiting Geometry catalogue to life
2012
Anti Static / Mike Lupita
2007
Rupa Anurendra uses found objects and handwritten type to create designs with a personal touch
2022
Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek: Inemuri
2011
Jerkcurb invites us into his world of noirish dystopia and mischief
2016
Stina Löfgren illustrates a first aid kit for those experiencing sorrow
2017
Adam Smith/Marcus Lyall: Don't Think
2012
Chewing operated drill and a teeth lathe! The brilliant Mouth Factory by Cheng Guo
2012
Mousse Agency on its identity for Manifesta 12, conceived of a virus "able to infect any image"
2018
Branislav Kropilak: Depots
2010
Gaetano Pesce's extraordinary part design experiment, part uber-toy
2012
Weng Nam Yap presents the mundane in the most beautiful booklet
2012
Jade Schulz’s atmospheric and imaginative editorial illustrations
2016
Unbound: Tibor Fischer
2011
Tatiana Ermolaeva's coherent “but not too slick” work for the Strelka Bar
2017
Seoul-based design studio Press Room explores meaning through the physical
2019
Take a shopping trip with We Are Out of Office: the Dutch design duo re-imagining what’s on the shelves
2019
Film: Conceptual design rethought by Next Nature at What Design Can Do
2013
Have your cake and eat it with Jeffrey Dell's beautiful prints
2012
Check out this "Pretty Ugly" design work from Two Points Studio
2012
Floating cycle lanes, A Butlins redesign and new Twin Peaks in Studio Audience
2014
Humans Since 1982: Hair Clip on Hair
2011
Santa France, the multimedia artist illustrating a futuristic interior frenzy
2017
October’s Things offers up wastemen, a prawn dumpling, faux prescriptions and a pink magazine
2019
Panolo Blahnik is Na Kim and June Park’s joyous take on haute couture
2020
Defective Carrots: the weird veg that will never make it to your table
2015
Publication: Eating, drinking and enjoying the great outdoors with Wilder Quarterly
2013
Nicer Tuesdays: This month's event explores Outer Space!
2014
Utopia and dystopia collide in Bysanz Baisen Zhou’s other-worldly creations
2019
Tsto develop eye catching design to entwine three exhibitions
2013
Yuma Naito talks us through his inventive fictional rebrand for Afropunk Festival
2017
Timo Durst's designs latch onto interesting topics to exploit unique and unexpected contexts
2018
Film: What it would Instagram be like if it was made in the 80s?
2014
Joyce Ho uses design to ask fundamental questions
2024
Nike Air Mag: A look in Marty McFly's closet
2011
Andrés Rosa approaches design by rejecting logic and embracing Dadaist thinking
2018
Vitsoe: Definitely No Robots
2011
Hachetresele design studio captures the spirit of Victor Della Vecchia Architects
2016
Timothy Saccenti: Not Getting There
2010
Micronations Revolution
2011
Spiritual dimensions – a visit to the site of Iceland's new Pagan temple
2015
Separating cookie and creme – meet Dentaku's wonderful Oreo Wheel
2013
Doug Miller’s atmospheric architectural illustrations
2017
Atelier Olschinsky: Legendary Cities
2011
The Nonist / Jamie Morrison
2008
David Huang brands a phantom bar with an ingenious nod to his favourite supermarkets
2024
Pray silence for Ernesto D. Morales' magnificent Magnifying Spoon
2014
The irony of cuteness: Meta Mascot explores mascot culture and its more sinister undertones
2021
Mike Tully explores the ways in which graphic design can serve different communities
2022
Ingo Giezendanner’s new book asks: What are the similarities are between books and trees?
2017
Issue four of Beauty Papers screws the formula of beauty, giving it a “brave new face”
2017
Product Design: This woman is wearing a bicycle helmet. What!?
2013
The Terrafugia Transition
2009
Viktor Hachmang’s Bookshelf is “a physical database of obsession”
2019
N-E takes a highly conceptual approach to its redesign of Odda magazine
2021
SHSadler's Fresh Meat assesses the line between “what is beautiful and what is ugly”
2019
A glimpse into the art of the future courtesy of Paris studio Pleix
2012
Henrik Purienne and Frank Rocholl's "jet set hedonism" magazine, Mirage No.4
2014
The Olympics with a twist thanks to Carl Burgess – swifter, higher, stronger… older!
2013
Dunne & Raby: The Statistical Clock
2010
Designers in Residence show explores design's disruptive potential
2014
Lee Hardcastle: Thingu
2012
à 2 c'est mieux: Update
2010
Mother knows best! Agua de Madre’s friendly, frenetic brand taps into childhood nostalgia
2025
Floating houses, fake family photos and smart plants: Three creatives tackle the home
2015
Sam Griffin: The Olduvai Cliff
2012
Augustine Kofie's abtsract architectural images are mechanical beauties
2012
Talk #15: Fred Butler
2009
Catalogue Studio launches the seventh issue of Library Paper themed Romance
2017
Anna Rhodes on designing a time-travelling set for Oscar Hudson's new Absolut advert
2018
MacGuffin takes us inside its fifth issue: The Cabinet
2017
Do you need an agent?
2016
The Art Of Lost Words
2009
Some absolute corkers here in King Zog's best and worst uni projects
2014
Sagmeister & Walsh create business cards for your inner angel and devil
2013
Asger Carlsen messes with resort fashion for New York Magazine's The Cut
2015
Lisk Feng adopts a more conceptual and experimental approach for her latest works
2017
An astoundingly original concept from LCF graduate and secret society fanatic – Robert Ventura Gibson
2012
Emily Forgot for Selfridges
2010
Stellar designer Peter Mendelsund lets us snoop around in his thoughts...
2012
New year, new you: designer Leeza Pritychenko on how to stop being a human and become a squirrel instead
2018
Le Gun returns with a new mag about “a world gone mad”
2017
Iris Van Herpen explores sound waves in her latest high-tech, high-concept, haute couture collection
2016
“I don’t bother being trendy”: Hugo Hoppmann on his multifarious design approach
2019
Man designs a gun that folds and shoots paper aeroplanes
2014
Designbolaget’s striking, conceptual monograph for filmmaker Ulrik Heltoft
2016
“I love to do shit that just looks cool” - Sebastian Schwamm on his new illustrative approach
2017
The typographically focused, conceptually-minded practice of designer Laura Coombs
2018
Two Thirds Off, At Least
2007
Stephanie Lüscher turns the food of The Netherlands into the mountains of Switzerland
2019
Jee-ook Choi turns Uniqlo’s AIRism range into a series of ethereal illustrations
2019
Peteris Lidaka's Imaginary Planes take model making to infinity and beyond
2013
Design studio Requena uses colour as a vehicle for concept
2021
Gorgeous imagined publications from German studio Deutsche Japaner
2012
Alex Fuller glorifies the humble two-letter word in a new book
2013
DR.ME release the latest issue of Fin? filled with killed projects and ideas that never made it
2018
Desk stationery like you've never seen it before from Daniel Emma Studio
2013
Keith Rankin explores the archetypal man vs machine story using Adobe Stock images
2019
Why beauty is the hardest won thing and the key to good design
2016
Marc Newson on his America’s Cup Logo
2019
Jack Davison captures the “progress of time” for Noon magazine
2017
Crockery in a vending machine: the perfect anger release device by Yarisal & Kublitz
2012
Studio 360 Challenge: Redesign Valentine’s Day
2010
Branding "Net Neutrality"
2014
Hui Yeon Hwang combines textures, materials and ridiculous ideas in her designs
2019
Pushing the medium of fashion illustrator: Kelly Beeman
2016
Estelle Hanania's take on Nike Sportswear proves to be, well, magnificent
2012
Jordy Ringeling's designs reinterpret the obscure (and suggest we should stop breeding)
2018
Staggering leg-powered wide loads courtesy of Alain Delorme's Totems
2012
All-Star Logos for Everyone
2016
Can there be an AI-free Logo?
2026
Laura Csocsan's monochromatic portfolio of conceptual yet methodical and logical designs
2018
From a series of sociopolitical scratch-cards to “everything is a dildo if you’re brave enough”: it’s October Things!
2018
Pablo Genovés: Precipitados
2012
Football Religion Kits
2015
London-based Yukai Du’s wonderful illustrations explore our dependence on technology
2015
New Logo and Packaging for Hot Hounds by Rethink
2019
Blend in with Snarkitecture’s Architectural Camouflage clothing range
2015
“Find poetry in the simple things”: The acclaimed Marina Willer on her stacked design career
2026
Clément Le Tulle-Neyret's considered approach to Strange Designs
2015
A trip to The Greenbrier – a preserved 112,544 sq foot government nuclear bunker
2017
Louis Vuitton Architecture
2020
Andrew Rae’s latest project imagines our devices as sinister, slimy monsters
2019
Dreamjams are clothes designed to nurture your malnourished creative brain
2019
Mirka Laura Severa makes snowmen models in fashion shoot for SZ Magazin
2016
Chernobyl Concept Identity
2021
Putput continues its ability to create images that are "both perfectly natural and out of place"
2018
In chaos lies opportunity: designer Liam Hodges on leading a dystopian army
2017
A new direction for sweet shops courtesy of architect Yuskuke Seki
2012
Clay Hickson takes us through his ideas that never panned out within his book, In A Nutshell
2017
The Weekender: What do you get when you cross a week with an end? You got it, it's the Weekender!
2014
Illustrated custom weapons featuring USBs and faux Japanese signage
2015
Demian Conrad's Revue Moyard is streets ahead of other furniture catalogues
2012