Month of February, 2009

I’m A Designer And...

Do you have something to say about being a designer, or just feel like reading others' rants or praise.

The website is engaging and easy to use with its cyan magenta and yellow colours and ability to add a quick comment. The ever-changing results can often be as colourful as the graphics.

LAR/Fernando Romero – Soumaya Museum, Irrigación, Mexico City 2007 – ongoing. Courtesy the architect

Laboratory of Architecture/Fernando Romero

28th February - 31st May '09

Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA

The Heinz Architectural Center presents the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the ambitious work of young Mexican architect Fernando Romero and his Mexico City based practice, LAR (Laboratory of Architecture),

Mariann Jorgenson, Pink M.24 Chafee, 2006 (Glenn Adamson: Craft in the 21st Century)

Talk: Glenn Adamson, Craft in the 21st Century

21st February '09, 2:30pm

White Stag Block at University of Oregon,
70 NW Couch Street, Portland, Oregon

The Museum of Contemporary Craft in association with the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon present ‘Craft in the 21st Century: Directions and Displacements’, a talk by Glenn Adamson, Deputy Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Tetra Light by Asif Khan and Peter Liversidge

Asif Khan talk

British architect Asif Khan talks to Designguide.tv about his recent collaboration project with Peter Liversidge called Tetra Light.

The modular light, which can range from a single pendant, to a floor light, table light and chandelier, is the first of an on-going series of collaborations between Khan and Liversidge

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Limited Edition by Sophi Lovell, ©2009 Birkhäuser

Limited Edition: Prototypes, One-Offs and Design Art Furniture

by Sophie Lovell

Available this March, 'Limited Edition', written by Sophie Lovell and published by Birkhauser, follows the design industry’s recent infatuation with Limited Edition furniture.

non-places: introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity - Marc Augé – ICA Talk

Talk: Non-Places

25th March '09, 7:00pm

Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA)
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

More and more we spend our lives in supermarkets, airports and hotels, staring at computers or at cash machines. This colonisation of our world by “non-places” Augé argues, changes us in subtle ways.

Rago Arts Auction: Real Modern, Stickley to Starck

14th February, 10:00am

Rago Arts
333 Main St. Lambertville, New Jersey

From iconic to obscure, Rago Arts upcoming Real Modern auction includes over 700 lots of great works from all genres of modern design.

The sale will be offering an excellent selection of masterworks by modern and post-modern 20th century designers including Alvar Aalto, Ettore Sottsass and Philippe Starck.

Pair of Iron Lounge Chairs

Lot#238

Real Modern Auction

14th & 15th February '09: 20th Century Modern

Fernando and Humberto Campana, Corallo Armchair, 2004

Design Hates a Depression

by Murray Moss for Design Observer

Design guru Murray Moss responds to Michael Cannell’s recent article, ‘Design Loves a Depression’, published in both the International Herald Tribune and New York Times.

Moss’ article, appropriately titled “Design Hates a Depression’, is a point by point rebuttal to Cannell’s summary of designs emotional attachment to our current state of affairs.