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Archive 2010
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 ...
Endlessly
Making friends with a robot, recently graduated Dirk Vander Kooij has sought to reintroduce the designer in the production process for his Endlessly project. 'Automated' and 'flexible' don't always go to together, but after months of engineering and scrambling around the designer taught his ...
Super K Sonic Boooum 2 Gold
Just how exciting can neutrino physics be? Well to get an idea, this installation by designer Nelly Ben Hayoun recreates the experience of a sonic boom at Japan’s Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory in the setting of the John Dalton Building at Manchester Metropolitan University. One of over ...
Rose on a Table
Design: Feng Feng + Biao Biao
As featured in Rabbitduck, the first show at iLIVETOMORROW in Hong Kong. Describing itself as a creative space dedicated to experimental design and a lab for designers, artists, architects and manufacturers, the exhibition sets out to be 'an experience into ...
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 ...
Alchemy of the Third Millennium
Regardless of your time zone, tomorrow is the starting date for the two-day international symposium 'Alchemy of the Third Millennium', which is part of the celebrations for Artek's 75th anniversary year and emphasise the role of cross-disciplinary thinking between science, art, architecture ...
Siam Twins
Design: Helmut Palla
As featured in the exhibition You Take a Seat, I Take a Picture at Semper Depot during the Vienna Design Week.
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The Volcanobook
The latest update (23 June) on the Icelandic Met Office's website noted that there was 'very little activity' at the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland & that basically they'd get back to us if things started up again. Anecdotal memories and sweating airline executives aside, the ash cloud ...
We Make Carpets
The Dutch squad of Bob Waardenburg, Marcia Nolte and Stijn van der Vleuten that makes up We Make Carpets has taken up outdoor floor space for one of its latest installations. In its first public outing, a Brick Carpet of 470 sq m was made for the art festival FLUX/S - Drafts Establishing ...
Isabelle Dethier
The exhibition of Anglo-Belgian sculptor Isabelle Dethier has been extended until 30 October at the LKFF Art & Sculpture Projects exhibition space in Brussels. Using fallen or sick trees, Dethier's works in wood come from a variety of sources including lime, pear, sherry and maple. And while ...
Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art
Is street art 'the last outlaw of visual disciplines' or unsanctioned public art 'the problem child of cultural expression'? This book brings together four generations of artists, with works by Jean Tinguely, Spencer Tunick, Keith Haring, Os Gemeos, Jenny Holzer, Barry McGee, Gordon ...
Reverb Wire Chair
Design: Brodie Neill for The Apartment Gallery, London.
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Thin Black Lines
Design: Nendo
Collection of of black wire furniture with Phillips de Pury & Company at the Saatchi Gallery, London.
Objects with a Void
The Workshop for Potential Design presented the work of six designers in the exhibition Objects with a Void. Those defining spaces included Max Lamb (pictured left, prisms within prisms that can be a paperweight, mathematical game, doorstep...) and Study O Portable (pictured right, Fuzz is a ...
