Posted by the editors on Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Greetings design aficionados! We’ll certainly be posting some interesting things here in the next few days from the Salone del Mobile 2011 in Milan – Milan Design Week, but, in the meantime, follow what’s happening on Twitter, here, or on Facebook, here!
And check out our last post which includes Google Maps of all things wonderful, here!!
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Posted by the editors on Thursday, 5 August 2010
Architectural Record has published a number of interesting articles and slide shows reviewing the Burj Khalia in Dubai and the Las Vegas City Center looking at, among other things, lighting, construction and economics, notably the boom to bust global economic conditions more or less coinciding with the debut of construction of these two structures and their final completion dates.
LIGHTING
Burj Khalifa lighting, here. (Slide show, here.)
Las Vegas City Center lighting, here. (Slide show, here.)
PRODUCT REVIEW – Burj Khalifa, Dubai & CityCenter, Las Vegas
Slide show with detailed descriptions, here
ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY
“Beyond Limits”, by Josephine Minutillo, here.
“Burj Khalia, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); The completion of the world’s tallest skyscraper raises intriguing questions about the significance of this gleaming, spiraling form.”, by Blair Kamin, here.
Adrian Smith website (Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture), here.
Perhaps not quite all-encompassing, but certainly with serious pretensions…
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Posted by the editors on Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The Hippo Water Roller
image: Hippo Water Roller Project
The design commentator (analyst? critic? observer?) Bruce Nussbaum (http://twitter.com/brucenussbaum) published a post, some time ago (7 July 2010, to be precise), to his blog on fastcodesign.com (a very interesting site), entitled “Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism?” which has served to bring to the fore a very deep and wide-ranging discussion of the motivations, implications, realisations, politics, etc. of humanitarian design, not to mention the language we use to discuss it (and design, in general). Whatever you may think on the subject, the discussion, you must agree (we hope), following Nussbaum’s post has offered numerous opportunities to read thoughtful, at times provocactive, and, very often, very interesting writing on the subject of humanitarian design.
Frankly, however, there is now so (very) much out there that we certainly find ourselves unable to offer you all the necessary links and so have chosen to offer you just a few interesting ones, knowing you’ll go on from there…
“Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism” by Bruce Nussbaum on fastcodesign.com
“The Language of Design Imperialism” by Maria Popova in Change Observer on Design Observer
Project H Design, humanitarian design
Nussbaum on Design blog by Bruce Nussbaum on businessweek.com
The Design Revolution Road Show, here.
Architecture for Humanity, here.
Also consult one of our previous (though quite recent) posts on humanitarian design, here.
Also, feel free (as long as you are able to remain polite and relatively brief) to share your comments on the subject with your fellow designalog readers…or….
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Posted by the editors on Tuesday, 18 May 2010
International Contemporary Furniture Fair 2010 New York City
Here are links to all the winners of the 2010 ICFF Editors Awards covering a spectrum of design categories including New Designer (Objeti LLC , and Studio Dunn), Craftmanship (Cocochi Design), Furniture (Mabeo), Seating (Arper Spa), Lighting (Peter Stathis & Virtual Studio), Carpet and Flooring (Ardeco Interier Sro), Materials (Triple Pin Blue Denim Tiles presented by Material ConneXion, Inc.), Wall Covering (Timorous Beasties), Accessories (Kikkerland Design Inc.), Outdoor Furniture (Snow Peak, Inc.), Textiles (Dana Barnes Design), Kitchen and Bath (Axor), Body of Work (Blu Dot), Multiple Production (Tom Dixon), Design School (MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art)), and Booth (Molo).
We encourage you, of course, to visit the sites of all of these award winners. But don’t limit your excursions to the winners alone as there are many (many!) others whose work is very good (and, indeed, perhaps more to your liking). One way of taking a look around would be the Twitter hashtag #ICFF2010, needless to say. Another way would be to delve into the wonders offered by the publications with which the judges/editors are affiliated. To this end:
Finalists were chosen by the Editors Committee, including Arlene Hirst, Anniina Koivu of Abitare, Jessica Johnson of Azure, Stefano Casciani of Domus, Sam Grawe of Dwell, Gilda Bojardi of Interni, Chantal Hamaide of Intramuros, Susan S. Szenasy of Metropolis, Benjamin Kempton of Wallpaper*.
And, frankly, you really couldn’t go wrong by subscribing to any, or all, of these publications.
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