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Archive 2010
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 ...
Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt, New York ca. 1939, courtesy private collection of Estate of Helen Levitt.
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 ...
Under the Volcano
The 2010 edition of Milan’s Salone del Mobile will be engraved in our memories as the year of slowness and inertia – the year traffic stood still. Attempting to event hop around Lombardy’s vast capital - from Rho Fiera and La Triennale to the districts of ZonaTortona, Brera/Duomo, ...
We Make Carpets
From pasta to balloons, the 'we make carpets' project takes everyday products and materials and frames them within traditional carpet symmetry. Created by designers Stijn van der Vleuten and and Marcia Nolte and visual artist Bob Waardenburg, the trio were connected by the instantaneous ...
Wheel of Nutrition
Are you eating right? Or left and centre as well? If you need to read your meal a little more closely this ceramic dining plate offers a simple service. Coming in three different versions - Diet, Extra ordinary and Supersize - its explanatory graphics correspond to varying percentages of ...
Fehling & Peiz
15 - 18 May, ICFF, New York
Yvonne Fehling & Jennie Peiz's Hockerbank seating is one of the featured objects in Design Germany 2010, the German Design Council's touring exhibition that has moved on from Milan and will shortly open at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). Alongside nearly 100 new products ...
COLLECT 2010
Designers Guild store window, Kings Road, London, until 18 May
In its second year at the Saatchi Gallery in London, alongside the main COLLECT 2010 contemporary craft fair (14- 17 May) is a Trail that sees the works of seven emerging artists feature in the store windows of Designers Guild, Cath Kidston, David Mellor, Osborne & Little and TASCHEN.
Art Bollart
Shangahi, China - and Antwerp, Belgium
Mooring posts, bollards, whatever your urban language the presence or absence of this object makes a perceptible impact on the cityscape. Bollart, a project initiated by Belgian sculptor and designer Patrick Villas reinterprets the pleasure of sitting on the dock of the bay, with a direct ...
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 ...
Bram Boo's Still Life
Ventura Lambrate
Not your average workplace materials, Belgian designer Bram Boo's ''still life' of a desk' was realised in polished copper and wood. 'Using the silent beauty of archetypal office items and translating them into storage', the resulting objects sought to transform their regular ...
Dragonfly.MGX
Design: WertelOberfell - Platform
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 ...
True Stories
Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan
‘In collaboration with Lamborghini’ must have been sweet music to students attending Milan’s Scuola Politecnica di Design Master’s Programme in Transportation Design. Sunday at the Race, which lined up 11 models of new Lamborghini supercars on a rollercoaster, was one of four scenarios that ...
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 ...
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