Posts Tagged ‘Alice Rawsthorn’
Posted by the editors on Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Design: Reflections on a Soup Spoon, by Alice Rawsthorn: “..it was designed by the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen in the late 1950s for use in one of his architectural projects, the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. Then in his late 50s, Jacobsen was the most famous architect in Denmark and was renowned internationally for the sensitivity with which he softened the ascetic Modernist style with gentle curves and sensual finishes..” Excellent, sharp, smart article in The New York Times, by the astute design observer Alice Rawsthorn..
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image: Georg Jensen; The New York Times; article: Alice Rawsthorn, The New York Times
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Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture & Design in China, Articles, contemporary design, Design, Design & Decoration, Designalog, Dinnerware, Exhibitions, Furniture, Graphic Design, lighting, Mid-Century Design, Modernism, Product Design, Residential Architecture, Tableware, Technology, Typography | Tagged: A Taxonomy of Office Chairs – You’ll Never Look at Them the Same Way Again, Alice Rawsthorn, Arne Jacobsen, ‘Keyed to Detail No Matter How Crazy’ by Alice Rawsthorn – The Sensual Intelligence of Designer Aldo Bakker, Branding, Can Anybody Be a Designer? by Alice Rawsthorn, Danish Design, Danish Designers, Design, Designalog, Furniture, Georg Jensen, Graphic Design: With a Big Boost From Technology by Alice Rawsthorn, Looking at China as a Creator Not Manufacturer by Alice Rawsthorn, Modernism, Modernist Design, Postmodern but Not Especially Proud of It’ by Alice Rawsthorn, Postmodernism, Protest Branding – Elements of Style as Occupy Movement Evolves by Alice Rawsthorn, Quietly Excellent Design – The Annual Post-Salone Sigh from Alice Rawsthorn, Reflections on a Soup Spoon by Alice Rawsthorn, SAS Royal Hotel, Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool, Tableware, The New York Times, Villa Tugendhat – Reopening a Mies Modernist Landmark, Visually Stunning Technologically Ingenious Poetic Subversive – The Lighting of Ron Gilad for FLOS by Alice Rawsthorn | Leave a Comment »
Posted by the editors on Monday, 27 February 2012
Residential Architecture: Villa Tugendhat – Reopening a Mies Modernist Landmark: The architecture and design critic Alice Rawsthorn has written, in The New York Times, “among Mies’s finest works and..hailed as a new model of 20th-century living..” “Mies took radical decisions about how to design a new kind of living space, and the house is incredibly spacious, incredibly luxurious and incredibly sensual,” said Barry Bergdoll, chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “But the Tugendhats had very specific notions about how they wanted to live. If you look at the program, it is almost like a 19th-century description of an English country house with a room for the butler to iron the morning newspaper. The space seems open and flowing, but there are large zones of privacy for the behind-the-scenes world of the servants.” Magnificent, luxurious, iconic..
image: David Zidlicky, The New York Times; article: Alice Rawsthorn, The New York Times
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Posted in Architects, Architecture, Articles, Design, Design & Decoration, Designalog, Interiors, Modernism, Residential Architecture | Tagged: Alice Rawsthorn, Architects, Architecture, Architecture & Design, Barry Bergdoll, Czech Republic, David Zidlicky, Design, Designalog, Europe, Homes, House, Iconic Homes, interiors, Luxury Homes, Mies van der Rohe, Modernism, MoMA, The New York Times, Villa Tugendhat | 3 Comments »
Posted by the editors on Wednesday, 23 November 2011
The astute design observer Alice Rawsthorn has written an interesting article entitled “Elements of Style as Occupy Movement Evolves” in the Art & Design section of The New York Times, looking at contemporary and historical graphic design communication by various protest movements, including the, now global, #Occupy movement. Clenched fist, to octothorpe, to semaphore. Emblematic!
See our other posts on articles by Alice Rawsthorn: “#hashtag or Pound Evolutionary English. Octothorpe, to you.“, Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool, A Taxonomy of Office Chairs – You’ll Never Look at Them the Same Way Again, and still others, here.
See our post “In Protest, the Power of Place by Michael Kimmelman – Place as Place & the Architecture of Social Consciousness” on architecture and urban design.
image: Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters, The New York Times
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Posted in contemporary design, Design, Designalog, Graphic Design, Nothing Is Invisible, Public Parks, Typography, Urban Design | Tagged: #hashtag or Pound Evolutionary English. Octothorpe to you, #Occupy, #Occupywallstreet, A Taxonomy of Office Chairs – You’ll Never Look at Them the Same Way Again, Alice Rawsthorn, Art-Design, Branding, Civil Disobedience, Clenched Fist, contemporary design, Design, Designalog, Elements of Style as Occupy Movement Evolves, Graphic Communication, Graphic Design, In Protest..the Power of Place by Michael Kimmelman – Place as Place & the Architecture of Social Consciousness, Jessica Rinaldi, Michael Kimmelman, occupywallst.org, Octothorpe, Protests, Reuters, Semaphore, Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool, The New York Times, Typography, urban design | 1 Comment »
Posted by the editors on Monday, 14 November 2011
Alice Rawsthorn, the keen-eyed observer of all things design, has written a very interesting article entitled “Keyed to Detail, No Matter How Crazy” in the Art & Design section of The New York Times, looking at the wide variety of designs created by Dutch designer Aldo Bakker, son of Droog Design group co-founder Gijs Bakker and jewelry designer Emmy van Leersum. With an extraordinarily sharp eye, a sensual sense of detail, and a painstaking rigor in fabrication, Aldo Bakker’s creations are well-worth the detour. Based in Amsterdam, a selection of Bakker’s work will be shown at the gallery Perimeter in Paris, 18 November 2011 through 15 January 2012. View other posts on articles written by Alice Rawsthorn: Graphic Design: With a Big Boost From Technology, by Alice Rawsthorn; ‘Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It’ by Alice Rawsthorn; Can Anybody Be a Designer? by Alice Rawsthorn; Visually Stunning, Technologically Ingenious, Poetic, Subversive – The Lighting of Ron Gilad for FLOS by Alice Rawsthorn; A Taxonomy of Office Chairs – You’ll Never Look at Them the Same Way Again
image: Erik and Petra Hesmerg/The New York Times
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Posted in contemporary design, Design, Design & Decoration, Designalog, Exhibitions, Furniture, General, Glassware, Interiors, Product Design, Tableware | Tagged: A Taxonomy of Office Chairs – You’ll Never Look at Them the Same Way Again, Aldo Bakker, Alice Rawsthorn, Art-Design, Can Anybody Be a Designer? by Alice Rawsthorn, ceramics, contemporary design, Design, Designalog, Droog Design, Emmy van Leersum, Erik and Petra Hesmerg, Furniture Design, Gijs Bakker, glassware, Graphic Design: With a Big Boost From Technology by Alice Rawsthorn, Keyed to Detail No Matter How Crazy, Perimeter Art & Design Gallery, Postmodern but Not Especially Proud of It’ by Alice Rawsthorn, Product Design, The New York Times, Visually Stunning Technologically Ingenious Poetic Subversive – The Lighting of Ron Gilad for FLOS by Alice Rawsthorn | 1 Comment »
Posted by the editors on Monday, 17 October 2011
The gimlet-eyed design and architecture observer Alice Rawsthorn has written an excellent and well-documented article entitled “With a Big Boost From Technology” in the Arts section of The New York Times, looking at, among other things, the role of technology in the evolution of graphic design and the democratisation of the design process, typography, new media, data visualisation, and reviewing the exhibition “Graphic Design: Now in Production,” (opening Saturday 22 October 2011, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis [the museum for which April Greiman made the poster shown in the top image]) which explores the evolution of graphic design since the year 2000.
top image: April Greiman, Design Quarterly via ioanapri.wordpress.com
See our other posts on other excellent articles written by Alice Rawsthorn: How to Ruin a Great Design, A Taxonomy of Office Chairs – You’ll Never Look at Them the Same Way Again, Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool, and Can Anybody Be a Designer? by Alice Rawsthorn
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Posted in contemporary design, Design, Designalog, Exhibitions, Graphic Design, Typography | Tagged: A Taxonomy of Office Chairs – You’ll Never Look at Them the Same Way Again, Alice Rawsthorn, April Greiman, Can Anybody Be a Designer? by Alice Rawsthorn, contemporary design, Data Visualisation, Design, Design Quarterly, Designalog, Graphic Design, Graphic Design: Now in Production, How to Ruin a Great Design, ioanapri.wordpress.com, New Media, Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool, technology, The New York Times, Typography, Walker Art Center, With a Big Boost From Technology | 2 Comments »
