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January / February 2005

Tobias Wong: Book 2, A New York story by Trade Marc using Florent (Tibor designed) matchbooks, 2002

Editorial highlights

ART:
Brass Bands, Bush & Bats: Jeremy Deller wins the Turner Prize 2004, the UK’s biggest art prize (2)
Freeze! You Sucker!: Art Basel Miami Beach shows how contemporary art fits in with the bling bling culture, in a place renowned for its vices

ARCHITECTURE:
Below Zero: a series of features examining the rebirth of the site of 9/11
Snøw-how: the career of Norwegian architectural practice Snøhetta so far
More Books, Please!: Snøhetta’s award-winning design for the Bibalex in Alexandria, and other recipients of architecture’s wealthiest prize, the Aga Khan Awards (3)
The Seven Sails of Tarn: Norman Foster’s design for the Millau Bridge over the Tarn Valley has given France a new landmark

DESIGN:
The Future as a Designer Dildo: FutureDesignDays; the themes, scenes & slogans of Stockholm’s major design event
What gets us going: Claesson, Kovisto & Rune tell all (4)
7+7, a Design Photostory: Oliver Vogt puts together a unique contrast of the work young designers in Berlin and New York (5)
Behind the Snapshot: Maarten van Severen retrospective at the Design Museum in Ghent (6)
Fairytale or Nightmare?: overview of the big players & small wonders in the international design trade fair circuit
Fantastic but is that Good Enough?: an evaluation of Interieur 04, Belgium’s contemporary design event
Things to Come: a selection of desirable product designs

FASHION:
F(ashion) + art = Fart: Fashination exhibition in Stockholm (7)

UNUSUAL DWELLINGS:
Between Heaven and Earth: homes in the rooftops and tombs of Cairo (8)

GRAPHICS:
Virtual Street: the rise of a global stencil community (9)

AGENDA:
what’s up and where