Obituaries
“Subversive, shocking and truly unique” artist and architect Vito Acconci dies
Pioneering designer Lella Vignelli dies aged 82
Fashion designer Richard Nicoll dies suddenly aged 39
Vancouver architect Bing Thom dies aged 75
“Prince was the Nike swoosh before Nike was” says musician’s symbol designer
Daniel Libeskind and Richard Rogers lead tributes to Zaha Hadid
James Bond set designer Ken Adam dies aged 95
“Radical and audacious” French architect Claude Parent dies aged 93
Scottish architect Gareth Hoskins dies aged 48
Industrial designer Richard Sapper dies aged 83
Beyond Dingbats: the typographic legacy of Hermann Zapf
Indian architect Charles Correa dies aged 84
Mid-century modern designer Jens Risom dies aged 100
De Padova founder Maddalena de Padova dies aged 88
“Hardly any British designers have had a style as instantly recognisable as David King”
Modernist architect Michael Manser dies aged 87
Zaha Hadid dies following a heart attack
IKEA’s Billy bookcase designer Gillis Lundgren dies aged 86
Lisbon Architecture Triennale curator Diogo Seixas Lopes dies aged 43
Czech architect and designer Bořek Šípek dies aged 66
Established & Sons co-founder and chairman Angad Paul dies aged 45
Adrian Frutiger, type designer and creator of London’s street-sign font, dies aged 87
Danish designer Jacob Jensen dies aged 89
