11 September 2018 • Mark Westall
the Design Museum in London announces the most international list of contenders to date for the eleventh edition of Beazley Designs of the Year.
9 September 2018 • Tabish Khan
This weeks Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London includes: History, teeth, meditation, beauty, Campari, theatre and flowers.
31 August 2018 • Herbert Wright
Amos Rex, a surrealistic and mainly subterranean art complex, has just opened in Helsinki, with a immersive multimedia headline show by Japanese digital collective teamLab. But that’s not all that is pushing Helsinki on to the international art map
30 August 2018 • Mark Westall
On show for the first time in the UK, BIOLOGY OF METAL explores the innovative craftsmanship and ancient skills of some of Japan’s most talented metalworkers.
22 August 2018 • Staff
We found ourselves reflecting on the fate of Europe whilst visiting the Domus Europa at MUCEM, Love at Musee d’art contemporaine and Le Corbusier’s Cite’ Radieuse.
20 August 2018 • Staff
Exclusive new FAD series: Christian Luiten, co-founder of amazing art platform @AvantArte chooses the artists you should be following this season. Read on for his Autumn 2018 picks.
17 August 2018 • Mark Westall
DOUBLEPLAY began as a collaborative film by Gil De Ray and Kirsty Allison, shot in New Orleans, where Kirsty chalked up a graffiti poem around Crescent Park which she then recited, and Gil created music as an accompaniment. It creates an echo to the track to his first half of the film, some of which was shot in the UK’s Hellfire Caves.
13 August 2018 • Mark Westall
Curated by Waldwick Jatoba, David Elia’s installation is titled ‘Desmatamento’, meaning ‘deforestation’, is based on the design of his chair… Read More
13 August 2018 • Mark Westall
State of Indigo – presented by the India Pavilion at London Design Biennale 2018 – will immerse viewers in the labour-intensive setting of the production of indigo, a pigment used to dye textiles, repel insects, cure ailments, disinfect, ward off spirits and even to decorate an entire city.
13 August 2018 • Mark Westall
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York) will once again represent the United States at the London Design Biennale with “Face Values,” an immersive installation that explores the pervasive yet often hidden role of facial detection technology in contemporary society.
10 August 2018 • Mark Westall
Back to Basics is a new online shop producing natural handmade cosmetics in the city of Marseille.
Marseille has a long history of producing amazing soap and Back to Basics is one of the best places to find it.
9 August 2018 • Mark Westall
For CIFF Spring-Summer 2019, under the creative direction of Kristian W. Andersen, Stavros Karelis invited Sami Janjer to co- curate ENLIGHTENMENT in the Special Projects area. Together, Sami and Stavros have enlisted Virgil Abloh, Naomi Campbell, Peter Saville, and Nick Knight to create unique pieces of work inspired by the power, influence, and beauty of light to raise awareness for the global Little Sun project.
30 July 2018 • Staff
Engineers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have built a disaster response robot with a horse-like form. Based on the design of a centaur
27 July 2018 • Mark Westall
Russia-based architect Sasha Shtanuk is aiming to create a 10,000 sq meters reflective silver blanket for Burning Man. Made of 3,350 NASA space blankets held together with 40km of reinforced tape, the ultralight polyester canvas will constantly change its shape into surreal silhouettes of waves, mountains etc
24 July 2018 • Mark Westall
The Design Museum has announced a major new London Design Festival installation, Mind-Pilot, an airship that can be controlled by visitors.
24 July 2018 • Irene Machetti
Universal Pictures’ First Man, directed by Damien Chazelle will open the 75th Venice International Film Festival. The full program of the festival will be announced shortly by Alberto Barbera, the director.
23 July 2018 • Mark Westall
We love ‘Urbanized’ the bike designed with a focus on city-friendly functionality, developed in the UK,
22 July 2018 • Mark Westall
We love the Microlino – a small, electric city car that is now legal to drive across European roads. Production starts this December with deliveries in Switzerland before entering the German market in 2019.
22 July 2018 • Tabish Khan
The Top 8 Art events to visit this week include: Monet, The Kiss, Hitchcock, ice cream, a boudoir, femininity, a ruin and summer.
19 July 2018 • Mark Westall
An artist website as an online portfolio is a classic and perhaps indispensable tool to gain visibility in the digital… Read More
13 July 2018 • Mark Westall
Ever heard of Ionut Budisteanu, the 19-year-old Romanian student that rivals the designs of companies such as Tesla?
6 July 2018 • Mark Westall
Random International have a new art installation located next to St James’ Merano Residences a new residential building designed by… Read More
6 July 2018 • Mark Westall
Bill Viola Studio and the USC Game Innovation Lab have launched The Night Journey; an award-winning art game available worldwide on Windows PC and Mac and via the PlayStation®Store in the US.
2 July 2018 • Mark Westall
Thrashbird embarked on a painting expedition searching for an opportunity to let his ‘imagination run free.‘ amidst the grounds of an abandoned concrete plant, Thrashbird found ‘a maze of giant broken concrete monoliths’ which became the site for his project: ‘Thrashbird’s valley of secret values.’
