Posted by the editors on Sunday, 7 April 2013
Design: Milan Design Week 2013 Map: “..Milan 2013: the design world descends on Milan next week. To help you navigate the hundreds of events around the city we’ve compiled a map with our pick of the best exhibitions, parties and talks..” Once again the excellent Dezeen helps guide us through the events of, perhaps, the most important design event of the year..
image: Dezeen, Google; article: Dezeen
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Posted by the editors on Sunday, 2 September 2012
Architecture: Architecture and the Lost Art of Drawing by Michael Graves, Architect: “..IT has become fashionable in many architectural circles to declare the death of drawing. What has happened to our profession, and our art, to cause the supposed end of our most powerful means of conceptualizing and representing architecture?..” The world-renowned architect and designer, Michael Graves, has written a very interesting article in The New York Times, on the relationship between architecture, thought, creativity and drawing..
A 15-image slideshow accompanies the article, here.
See our other posts on Michael Graves:
image: Michael Graves; article: Michael Graves; The New York Times
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Posted by the editors on Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Design: Design Museum Collection App: Chairs: “..a series of interviews with Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic about 59 objects from their collection for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, which is available to download free from the app store here..This film features extracts about the developments in chair design over the last 150 years, from the first mass produced Thonet No. 14 chair in the 1850s to the use of tubular steel as a material for furniture in the B3 (Wassily) chair in the 1920s, all the way to creating the shapes of Jasper Morrison’s Air Chair using gas injection at the turn of this century..Download the Design Museum Collection App »..”..”[above image]..Wiggle Chair by Frank Gehry: Best known for his iconoclastic architecture in buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, Frank Gehry has also experimented with furniture design throughout his career. One of his Easy Edges chairs, the Wiggle, 1972, is composed of 60 layers of cardboard bonded and screwed together. Gehry transformed an everyday material – the corrugated cardboard from which his architectural models were made – into a solid sculptural form. ‘I began to play with it, to glue it together and to cut it into shapes with a hand saw and a pocket knife,’ he recalled..” Article includes a video interview and some key excepts from the Design Museum’s app..
image + video + article: Dezeen
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Posted by the editors on Monday, 16 July 2012
Architecture + Design: Z Boat by Zaha Hadid Architects: “..zaha hadid has been commissioned by london-based art dealer and writer kenny schachter to design a limited edition speedboat for his own personal use..the 8-meter-long ‘Z boat’ will be manufactured by french manufacturer shoreteam, who will produce just 12 of them to go on sale in early 2013..’the asymmetrical design is sculptural in appearance while practically affording more seating accommodations. in a sense, the bespoke boat is as much a work of art as a cisitalia sports car in the permanent collection of the museum of modern art in new york..the idea is to think of vessels and vehicles as highly individualistic expressions of art, architecture and design reflecting the edge of what is possible using the most advanced means, including materials, software systems and methods of fabrication.’ -design statement from zaha hadid architects..” Stealth-like speedboat; iconic Hadid..
See some of our posts on other work by Zaha Hadid Architects:
image: Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects; article: Designboom
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