Mutant matter: design in the Anthropocene era
Designers Daphna Isaacs Burggraaf and Laurens Manders (Eindhoven-based studio Daphna Laurens) have imagined the scenography of the most recent Dutch Invertuals collective exhibition. First introduced...
View ArticleIs Food Fiction? Presentation and narrative of food
The Design Museum Den Bosch (The Netherlands) is tempting your tastebuds and challenging your brain with “Food is fiction”, on display until October 28th. “Food is fiction” draws on a wealth of designs...
View ArticleJoshua Smith’s wonders of “Urban decay”
Miniaturist and artist Joshua Smith’s intricately detailed models of overlooked Sydney buildings celebrate the beauty of urban grime, rust, decay and graffiti. “Urban Decay”, showing at the Australian...
View ArticleDieter Rams was “Wright”
“Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.” (Dieter Rams) It’s not often that a contemporary designer gets its dedicated,...
View ArticleHans Tan: “Design can be a cultural driver for Singapore”
Hans Tan has just been crowned Singapore Designer of the Year 2018 (Product & Industrial design) at this year’s President’s Design Awards. He was already the recipient of two Design of the Year...
View ArticleAt last! Tim Walker at the V&A, London
Whimsical, extravagant, out-of-this-world: the V&A museum have just announced an upcoming exhibition (well, we will have to wait a bit: 7 September 2019 – 8 March 2020) dedicated to the fantastical...
View ArticleOf toothpicks & design: “A Million Time” at Changi Airport, Humans since 1982
It took four years to complete this uncommon clock, that you can admire in the Terminal 2 at Singapore Changi airport, at the entrance of the departure hall. But to be fair, it took over ten years to...
View ArticleThe powerful work of Christien Meinderstma on display @Vitra Design Museum
We know her works with and for Japanese label ARITA or have seen her many experiences with flax or linen, including the brilliant Label/breed Flax chair (picture above). The Vitra Design Museum team...
View ArticleIs Modernism dead? The sinking of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye
Danish artist Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen‘s installation Flooded Modernity, a full-scale, 15 x 6 x 9m model of a corner of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye (1929), will float in the waters of Vejle, Denmark,...
View ArticleDesign inspired by Nature: Flora & Fauna
Hong Kong based publisher Viction:ary have released yet another gorgeous design book: Flora & Fauna, Design inspired by Nature. The focus certainly rings a bell with the current, fascinating...
View ArticleLoewe’s strange tribute to Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Loewe x Mackintosh – This capsule collection may leave the fans of the famed “Glasgow Four” a bit puzzled… To mark the visionary designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s 150 birthday – and...
View ArticleAnother French Revolution: Design & Prisunic in the 1970’s
From Terence Conran to Andrée Putman, major names in the design industry embarked upon Prisunic’s quest for “Beauty for the price of ugliness”, and good design for all. It all started during the...
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