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No Castles made of Sand
It was already clear during last year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan: the Egyptians are back. With all the furniture-manufacturing facilities around Cairo - some among the biggest in the Middle East - it was just a matter of time before the birth of +20 Egypt Design. This first design platform ...
The Scavenger Project 2
Art House Co-op projects are all about giving anyone a go at being part of something creative. Mostly based on sketchbook-sized participation, its collection of amateurs and professionals can be viewed online, in exhibition, and at the Art House's library in Brooklyn, USA. Brandon GM ...
Where Is My Vote? Posters for the Green Movement in Iran
School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, 30 August - 25 September
Italian Andrea Rauch was just one of the graphic artists that responded to the call of an Iranian photographer named 'Green Bird' to create posters in support of the protests in Iran that followed the 2009 elections. The posters were originally collected on the web site SocialDesignZine, the ...
Vincent Bitaud
Vincent Bitaud, Ciudad sin Cuidado, 2009 (c) Vincent Bitaud
Oscar Munoz
Oscar Munoz, Narciso, 2008, courtesy of Sicardi Gallery, Houston (c) Oscar Munoz
Picture Madrid
Various locations throughout Madrid, Spain, until 25 July
On the 9th of June, the 13th edition of PHotoEspaña opened the doors of various Madrilenian spaces to a total of 69 shows on photography and visual arts. The formula has become one of Spain’s most important cultural events, supported by the city authorities, its cultural institutions - from ...
Maid in Shanghai
until 31 October, Shanghai, China
Copenhagen's Little Mermaid must be used to being tampered with. Her history is littered with sawn off body parts, blasts and paint attacks. Situationists, radical feminists, anti-war and immigration protestors - they've all had a go. Well now she has a temporary 'harbour' in Shanghai as ...
Change & Transformation
Text by Anneke Bokern
Gijs Bakker has high hopes for his Yii-project. ‘My aim is to prove that a conceptual approach generates different products when placed in a new context’, he says. In general, conceptuality is independent of context. But when you link it to local skills and culture, that's when it becomes ...
Growthobjects
A new project from KXdesigners and CloneNature fuses the possibilities of generative design, mathematics, biomimetics and advanced technologies. Growthobjects are new objects; created, grown and made digitally. Their instigators' describe the work as continued 'experimentation in the ...
A Chairless World
Posted by Walter Bettens
A few months ago, when bumping into Alejandro Aravena and asking him about his architectural contribution to the Vitra Campus - a workshop and training facility building project for the Weil premises – the Chilean architect kinda raised his left eyebrow, co-produced a subdued smile and ...
Bangle On
Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan
Baumkuchen (German Tree Cake), American roadside sculptures and eventually a blown-up pineapple all feature in the story of S.O.P's recent bangle jangle. Co mmissioned for FoodMarketo, a joint venture by Apartmento Magazine and DesignMarketo that was presented during this year's Milan ...
Design Bake: Autarky
Studio Formafantasma's Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin in front of the broom that formed part of its Autarky installation at Spazio Rossana Orlandi. Featuring vessels and lamps made from a biomaterial mix of flour, agricultural waste and natural limestone, the Italian Netherlands-based ...
Chesterfield Chaser
Guessing how many balls are in the bar is not a new drinking game, and for anyone familiar with cricket the fact that this counter is in the posh private Paris club of Le Cercle will probably hit the irony wicket. Just out of interest, the answer if 3200. Mut-Architecture, a collective ...
A Tender Saw
Ingo Maurer Showroom, Kaiserstrasse 47, Munich, 5 February - 20 March
The quiet pleasures of whittling versus the frenzied sounds of the chainsaw might be at opposite ends of the sound spectrum, yet for Italian architect and designer Michele De Lucchi the move from sharpening pencils with a penknife to picking up a power tool was driven by the same joy: shaping ...
Total Table Design
Las Palmas, Cruise Terminal Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 4 - 7 February 2010
One of the special presentations at Object Rotterdam 2010 is Total Table Design, in which Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk and design duo Scholten & Baijings team up with Royal Leerdam Crystal (glassware), Koninklijke Van Kempen & Begeer (cutlery/table accessories) and the Audax Textile Museum, ...
The Wild Beast
The students of the Herb Alpert School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia, California, will have a shape-shifting audience to play to this term. The Wild Beast by architects Craig Hodgetts and Ming Fung is a music pavilion that transforms from outdoor ...
Karl's Journey
These days there's no really strange answer to a question like 'What do Karl Lagerfeld, Sarah Palin and Lindsay Lohan have in common?' Truth and fiction both prevail and they all appear in alexSandro Palombo's Humor Chic blogspot. An illustrated musing on the worlds of fashion, costume, ...
Wien, nur Du allein
Visiting Design Festivals has become a full-time job for some since there are more of these city events than weeks on the Gregorian calendar, and it’s still in crescendo – Must be the European Year of Creativity and Innovation? - where in October alone there’s been Vienna Design Week, ...
Capri, C´est Fini!
Beautiful Capri is fed up with it: meaning, the ‘pollution’ of the masses of day-trip tourists that swamp the island’s extended shopping street, creating friction and obstruction along the small village’s backbone. We’re talking about the flocks of Japanese and Americans invading the marina at ...
Business of Design Week (BODW)
Hong Kong, 30/11-05/12 2009
BODW is an initiative of the Hong Kong Design Centre and since 2002 it has played an active role in focusing Asia’s attention on design and innovation, bringing exhibitions, forums and conferences on global design to the streets of Hong Kong. Its aim is to vitalize the interplay between design ...
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