Alyn Griffiths
Alyn is a freelance writer and editor who contributes to some of the world’s leading architecture and design publications, including Dezeen, Blueprint, Icon, Wallpaper, Interior Design and CNN Style.
He is also the author of 21st Century Lighting Design, published by Bloomsbury in 2014, and former design editor at Port magazine.
Alyn studied product design at Glasgow School of Art before moving to London in 2008, where he lived for eight years. He is now based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Stories by Alyn Griffiths
Anne Hardy transforms Tate Britain into a ghostly Christmas ruin
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China Design [Working Title] highlights work by “young and aspirational generation” of designers
Studio Sain uses traditional hand-turning process to create products incorporating wooden ball joints
Lorenz relaunches self righting clock that kickstarted Richard Sapper’s career
Sella Concept “masters the art of curves” with first furniture collection
Netherlands replaces “tulip Holland” identity with “less touristy” NL logo
Flying Panels exhibition charts the evolution of prefabricated concrete-panel construction
Braun Audio LE speakers revive a classic Dieter Rams design
Corrugation Lights is a collection of wavy plywood lighting inspired by midcentury furniture
Bompas & Parr produces “world’s lightest dessert” weighing just one gram
Chiara Tommencioni Pisapia uses moths to transform unwanted clothing into “precious” bio-waste material
Oli Grotesk is a modern typeface that can be used to write traditional Indian scripts
Nathalie Du Pasquier creates brightly coloured brick sculptures for Mutina
Mater uses recycled plastic and rattan for latest furniture designs
Pelle’s aluminium DVN Table is held together by friction
Lap Stool by SmithMatthias highlights traditional joinery technique
Heimat creates typeface using street art from the Berlin Wall
Madeline Hall reinterprets religious imagery as “psychedelic” ceramic sculptures
Claesson Koivisto Rune collaborates with master woodworker on Hand furniture
Dutch Invertuals exhibition presents designers’ interpretations of “the circle”
Rick Owens designs monolithic sofa system inspired by Brutalist architecture
Re:newcell prepares to launch “world’s first clothes made from circular cotton”
