Samantha Frew

The winners of the A+Product Awards  have been announced! Looking ahead to next season? Stay up to date by subscribing to Architizer's A+Product Awards Newsletter. Light is a funny old thing, one of the oldest in fact. As old as the universe and just as unruly, it has been guiding human behavior since long before we learned to build, bringing joy with each sunrise, quelling fear as firelight, invisible as infrared and seemingly never-ending as LED.

The winners of the A+Product Awards  have been announced! Looking ahead to next season? Stay up to date by subscribing to Architizer's A+Product Awards Newsletter. Design has always relied on its instruments, from the pencil to the PC. We use tools to help shape ideas into reality, and in that sense, nothing has changed for centuries. What has changed, however, is the expectation placed on practitioners. Today, this pressure is more demanding than it has ever been.

The winners of the A+Product Awards  have been announced! Looking ahead to next season? Stay up to date by subscribing to Architizer's A+Product Awards Newsletter. Ceramics have always carried a double life. On one hand, they are industrial, born from kilns, presses and chemistry. On the other hand, they are cultural artifacts, tied to centuries of craft and to the ways surfaces shape our experience of space. For architects and designers, porcelain stoneware is rarely a neutral background.