The medal for this year's best overall contribution to the London Design Biennale has gone to the Malta pavilion, which is presenting an expandable spherical urn designed to enshrine the ashes of ...

Architects and designers including David Chipperfield, Daniel Libeskind, Audrey Large and Philippe Starck have created funeral urns for Alessi's The Last Pot exhibition at Milan design week. Alongside ...

Channelling something as difficult as losing a loved one into a healing, creative endeavour takes tremendous grace. After the passing of her parents, California-based Marianna Jamadi took her grief ...

Lund University student Lisa Merk has designed a series of small urns that can be held during funeral ceremonies to reduce the anxieties of bereavement. Exhibited at this years Stockholm Furniture ...

The other day, in a woodworking studio above Santee Alley, a flea market in downtown Los Angeles, C. C. Boyce took a succulent from a row on her windowsill and placed it in a handmade wooden urn—a ...

In 2012, after Vancouver architect Dwayne Smyth lost his grandmother, he sought to make sense of his loss in a way only an architect could. “Design has the power to stir emotions, make people feel ...