Last week at the New York City launch party for the Roy Lichtenstein exhibition now on view at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, the Triennale announced its plans to open a New York satellite space this spring called Triennale NYC.
In this recent article for the FT, renowned architectural critic Edwin Heathcote turns his attention to design and offers an evaluation of the intellectual criticism available on the subject (which he seems to find pretty grim).
Recently, famed Dutch trendspotter Lidewij Edelkoort (Li) shocked the design community when she issued an open letter of resignation from the Designhuis and Eindhoven, in which she blamed the vision of the city’s governance for her departure.
In this article for Design.nl, Gabriella Kennedy speaks with designers, members of the local government, educators and other affected parties about their reactions to the news and the conflict between bureaucracy and autonomous design.
On 27th January Apple Inc.’s Steve Jobs held a press conference in San Francisco, California to announce ‘a major new product that we’re really excited about,’ which we could only assume was the widely hyped Apple Tablet computer.
In a world where phones have become computers, and computers try to look like phones, where everything from espresso machines to sink faucets has a digital touch screen, when has the digital trend gone too far? There are many articles out there on this subject (some serious and some hilarious). Here are two recent ones that are interesting food-for-thought for both designers and consumers alike.
For a fresh look at everything design from 2009, view Wallpaper Magazine’s ‘Design Awards’, featuring important and unique pieces from an array of sources. Categories such as ‘Best New Domestic Design’ (a slow cooker from Margaret Foolen for Royal VKB), and ‘Best Armchair’ (‘Archibold’ by J.M. Massaud) are just a few of the 2009 wonders.
In light of the ongoing debate regarding the Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance’s plans to place a design by Frank Gehry over a plot of land once occupied by an ancient Muslim cemetery, Frank Gehry has decided to drop out.
In this recent article for the FastCompany, Lydia Dishman discusses SEED, a project from Clemson University that aims to use industrial shipping containers as emergency housing.
In this recent article for the Financial Times, Nicole Swengley takes a look back at the last decade and the many ways in which design has transformed since the start of the new millennium.
As Swengley points out, ‘new materials, processes and technologies offer far greater freedom for today’s designers...
In the last week both the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles have named new directors with backgrounds in ‘real-world’ business rather than traditional academia.
In this interview for the Design Observer, Alexandra Lang asks the current Director of Design Excellence and the Arts for the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Casey Jones, about his latest projects, the issue of sustainability in design, the effect of the economic climate and what new directions he plans to take the GSA in.
Hotel development is a major source of business for the interior and architectural design industries. In this interesting video, produced by The Luxury Channel, viewers are given the chance to explore the concepts and aesthetics of some truly unique hotels including Terence Conran’s groundbreaking Boundary Hotel and Rabih Hage’s urban chic Rough Luxe Hotel.
In this recent interview, young designer/artist Mouna Androas talks to Yatzer about the relationship between her work and electronic and media related technologies.
Everyone is buzzing about the tablet computer. From the latest developments by designer Yves Behar for his charitable project ‘One Laptop Per Child’ to Apple’s hyped and highly anticipated new ‘iSlate’ computer, the design community can’t seem to stop talking about these miniaturised pieces of technology.
In this article for The National, Yvonne Courtney has interviewed key figures within the regional and international design community to find out their picks for the top designs of the past year.
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