My week in the art world – Europa in Marseille
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.
Tag: Design
William Kentridge’s designs for Ornellaia wine raised €140,000 for the upcoming photography centre at the V&A
31 May 2018 • Irene Machetti
Sotheby’s and the Italian winery Ornellaia joined again this year for the tenth edition of the Vendemmia d’Artista. The famous winery from Bolgheri called upon William Kentridge to design the labels for this anniversary. The benefit auction raised €140,000 that will be donated to the Victoria & Albert museum.
Low gravity — Flying light
28 December 2017 • Mark Westall
We Love product designer Fabien Roy’s Low gravity — Flying light. It’s his latest project that explores the concept of ‘light source mobility’.
The Top 6 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
8 October 2017 • Tabish Khan
Dynamic colour, California cool, vicious dogs, nailed portraits, glittered insects, schematics and a tropical Thames.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
3 September 2017 • Tabish Khan
The Top 7 art exhibitions to see in London this week include: Black & white, Anime, Animals, Satire, Spindly sculptures, Strange creatures & Young love
Building Prey: how artists shape video game worlds
27 July 2017 • Syndicate
Via concept art and sketches, we look at how developer Arkane envisaged one of the most visually spectacular games of the year
How down-at-heel Lisbon became the new capital of cool
5 June 2017 • Syndicate
Four years ago, Portugal’s capital felt like a ‘city on its knees’. Now it is being touted as hip, cheap and innovative. But is the socialist government failing Lisbon’s poor in its rush to revitalise?
Designers on acid: the tripping Californians who paved the way to our touchscreen world
11 May 2017 • Syndicate
Ever wondered why email, trash cans, Google Docs and desktops look the way they do? The answer lies in 1960s hippie culture and LSD-taking creatives
Magic black: Air-Ink, the art supplies made from vehicle pollution
10 April 2017 • Mark Westall
Inventor Anirudh Sharma is capturing carbon from car exhausts to turn it into ink. And he’s got his eye on London’s black cabs next
Everything you need for a techno-utopian retirement
15 January 2017 • Mark Westall
Design Museum, London
From next-gen mobility scooters to bloodstream nanobots, this pop-up exhibition explores how technology can better help an ageing population
Sterling Ruby: making it big
14 March 2016 • Syndicate
Paintings, flags, tapestries, ceramics, denim workwear … no wonder artist Sterling Ruby needs a two-acre studio. He talks about growing up on a farm, his manic drive, and being inspired by Henry Rollins’ gym shorts
Serpentine pavilion ‘unzipped’: first look at Bjarke Ingels’ design
25 February 2016 • Mark Westall
The Danish architect offers a sculptural space ‘like a mountain of ice cubes’ stretching across the London gallery’s lawn, to be complemented by four radical summer houses
The ‘wearable dwelling’ – a coat for refugees that turns into a tent
21 January 2016 • Mark Westall
Royal College of Art students have designed a multipurpose garment for refugees, made from the insulated material used by marathon runners
Tracey Emin’s luxury penis bracelet works like a charm on me
21 January 2016 • Staff
Emin’s latest venture – a designer jewellery line – reveals in miniature her strengths as an artist who always has something new and eloquent to say
REVIEW: Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery is a grown-up gem that shows he’s sobered with age
8 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Caruso St John architects have conjured an immaculate new home for the art prankster’s collection in an unlikely south London setting – and there’s not a diamond skull or formaldehyde animal in sight
Smartphone backlash: the mobile that gives you your life back
22 September 2015 • Mark Westall
The Punkt phone, launched at the London design festival, lets you call and text. It also has nice buttons and is easy to hold. And that’s about it. Would you pay £229 for it?
Lift-off ! My 90-second ride into the future of virtual reality
22 September 2015 • Mark Westall
The man who put the 3D visual magic into Harry Potter has set his sights on the future of everything – from ‘experiential branding’ to training surgeons. Our critic lifts off at the London design festival
Beautiful Spaces: The New Craftsmen
10 September 2015 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Beautiful shops are as rare as hen’s teeth, so when we find them, we celebrate them. The New Craftsmen presents the work of English artisans in a huge light filled atelier space. Founder Natalie Melton tells us about it.
Good Ideas: This French company just took the scary out of shopping for jewellery
11 August 2015 • Mark Westall
Diamonds might be a girl’s best friend but shopping for them is mad intimidating. Gemmyo have fixed that, and with prices from €65, that’s a very #goodidea
Shelf-ish: Lovely new office storage by Stefan Diez for HAY at Viaduct
19 May 2015 • Staff
Clever AND pretty. This shelf system from Stefan Diez for HAY will make your workspace look cool as well as organised.
NEW Muller Van Severen Exhibition at Viaduct
10 March 2015 • Staff
Viaduct are having another Muller Van Severen exhibition with lots of lovely new pieces.
Exhibit Your Art in London and New York
26 December 2014 • Staff
In 2015, we are taking the Share Your Art series to the next level with exhibitions in London and New York. What themes would you like to tackle?
Headset provides ‘3D soundscape’ to help blind people navigate cities
8 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Microsoft’s GPS-enabled navigation headset provides directions and live transport information, and ‘paints a picture of the world through sound’
AESTHETICS ASIDE #3: The Non-aesthetically Pleasing Properties of Max Lamb’s Furniture
21 May 2014 • Staff
I questioned how knowledge of non-visual and non-aesthetic properties affected my visual appreciation of the objects.