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Urban Nature Seminar in Turku, Finland, 2011
The theme Urban Nature forms part of the programme that has been put in place in Turku in respect of its European Capital of Culture year. This comes from a firm belief that nature and art have a positive effect on people living in a society that is ever more reliant on technology. ...
imm cologne
Koelnmesse (imm cologne/LivingKitchen) & various locations throughout Cologne, Germany
The 2011 fairground season sees imm cologne going full-throttle in the broad church of interior design. A place to test the health & wealth of the market, imm cologne is making a determined attempt to be more than a trade fair. Alongside design talents & visions for the future, this year ...
FILM+DESIGN Festival
23-29 October at Plaza Futura, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
A first festival, the programme for this event shows films about designers, artists, subcultures, the world of advertising and the 'creative spirit'. Featured designers reflect the scope of this latter category with Dutch premieres of Hella Jongerius - Contemporary Archetypes, The Visual ...
Architecture & Design Film Festival
Over 40 films from 2 to 80 minutes depict the cinematic qualities of design and architecture in these alternative offerings to the latest prequel in 3D. Popcorn is not obligatory in a programme curated into 13 themes, and among the screenings is Eye Over Prague directed by Olga Spátová, which ...
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 ...