Tag: Design
4D-printing: from self-assembling chairs to cancer-fighting robots
13 April 2013 • Mark Westall
The future is here. Project Cyborg will revolutionise the way designers think by training materials to build themselves – and adapt to their surroundings
Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse rooftop gym transformed into art space
8 April 2013 • Mark Westall
French designer Ora-Ïto is converting the famous Marseille roof terrace into a haven for contemporary art
What have you done with your Raspberry Pi?
1 March 2013 • Mark Westall
From drones to drumkits, the Design Museum wants to see what you have made of your $25 credit-card-sized computer
Sou Fujimoto’s Serpentine pavilion promises a breath of fresh air
18 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Master of delicate, beguiling structures, the young Japanese architect marks an exciting new direction for west London’s summer structure
Illustrator Barbara Nessim: ‘I was just steering my own ship’
5 February 2013 • Mark Westall
She dated Marc Bolan, lived with Gloria Steinem – and captured a country in change. Ahead of a major retrospective, Barbara Nessim talks shoes, salsa and suffering
Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things – review
3 February 2013 • Mark Westall
An exhibition of objects amassed by the Design Museum over 24 years shows it has yet to shake off a bad postwar hangover. Perhaps a trip to Milan is in order…
Textile futures: the living shoe and the strawberry plant that grows lace
24 January 2013 • Mark Westall
What will we be making shoes out of in 2080? And will our clothes come from fruit? One college course studies exactly that
Kate Middleton’s first portrait and the View from the Shard – the week in art
11 January 2013 • Mark Westall
The Duchess of Cambridge gets her first official portrait and Renzo Piano’s colossus opens its doors, plus the face of Easter Island and the future of toys – all in your art dispatch
Pull up a chair: inside the V&A’s brilliant new furniture gallery
29 November 2012 • Mark Westall
The V&A’s vast collection of furniture – from Jonathan Swift’s bureau to Ron Arad’s swervy bookcase – has a new home that is breathing new life into old wood
Print yourself: the rise of the 3D photo booth
24 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Shops in Tokyo and New York are offering you the chance to turn yourself into a miniature plastic action figure
Royal College of Art celebrates 175 years of cultivating talent
16 November 2012 • Mark Westall
The Perfect Place to Grow exhibition showcases achievements of students and staff including Moore, Hepworth, Dyson and Emin
Should Tower Hamlets council sell off its £20m Henry Moore?
4 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Is public art a luxury the poor cannot afford? The mayor of one London borough wants to sell off a wonderful sculpture by Henry Moore. Times are hard, but its loss would be a tragedy – and would set a dangerous precedent
Global premiere of genre-defying, pan-cultural production The Waldorf Project 10th – 14th October 2012
27 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Global premiere of genre-defying, pan-cultural production – fusing theatrical performance, visual arts, contemporary choreography & staging with haute cuisine & finest rare wine.
Good takes on evil at Berlin’s Museum of Things
18 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Plain pots and pans face off against kitsch cups in this German collection of objects showcasing the Deutscher Werkbund’s quest for ‘good form’
It’s crystal clear: memories aren’t what they used to be
4 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Swarovski-sponsored exhibition sees 15 designers using crystal to explore the future of memory in a digital age
GranTouristas A Unique Tour Of Italy Italian Pavilion Architecture Biennale Venice 2012
3 September 2012 • Mark Westall
GranTouristas is the work of Stefano Mirti, Daniele Mancini and Remo Ricchetti, Italian planners/designers that has just made its official public debut, at the Italian Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale 2012.
Brickstarter: crowd-funding takes to the streets
27 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Have an idea for a public space? A new website based on the Kickstarter model could make citizen-based urban planning a reality
Photographers’ Gallery extension – review
20 May 2012 • Mark Westall
Irish architects O’Donnell and Tuomey have made a success of a physically and financially constrained project
Bauhaus: a blueprint for the future
13 April 2012 • Mark Westall
On the eve of a Barbican retrospective, Rowan Moore explores the enduring appeal and influence of the Bauhaus school
Robot cleaners and the Museum of Me: Intel’s vision of the future
28 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Intel’s best-known project might be gimmicky, but its new collaboration with the Royal College of Art is full of daring
Thomas Alonso lines + waves at Victor Hunt Gallery Art Opening Thursday 5th January 2012
4 January 2012 • Mark Westall
Thomas Alonso at Victor Hunt
Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 – review
30 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Royal Academy, London
Neon: 100 years of the greatest light show on earth
31 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Peter Conrad celebrates a century of the medium that sells the raffish charms of America and has inspired film-makers and artists, from Hitchcock and Coppola to Bruce Nauman and Tracey Emin