When Germany was reunited, many of signs of the East were removed - literally. Yet here is the graphic design of East Berlin. With its...

Quite suddenly, under the corona crisis, our city streets have been rediscovered. Traffic has vanished in the lock-downs and people have...

In the aftermath of the global virus, the old "normal" just does not exist anymore. So we cannot simply "go back to normal". The streets...

Grand avenues of imposing marble and stone buildings form the normal international image of Washington DC. Yet within the fabric of the...

Tourists flock to Lille in the north of France, not because of any grandiose masterpiece of architecture or theme park. They come because...

Long gone are the days when street art was synonymous with graffiti and condemned as vandalism. A new group of people who identify...

People often ask me: what is "design"? Simple answer: "Design" is communication. Let's put it this way: how are the products on the...

Date: September 30, 2015 By Frederick Rickmann Situated on the north bank of the River Tay in Scotland, the city of Dundee has probably...

Berlin is one of the most dynamic of world cities. The core is a high density urban environment. It is formed into city blocks and the...

Date: January 19, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif Numerous governments have tried to re-arrange Cairo’s urban planning by getting rid of many...

There are few cities in the world that have managed to create such an incredibly well functioning and harmonic city environment. All...

Date: January 5, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif It rarely rains in Cairo. In the last days of November, it rained for less than 30 minutes for...