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Intel
28 August 2008
Who does the world’s biggest microchip manufacturer turn to when it wants to see the future? A company like Intel is in the business of long-term betting, and it can’t afford to get it wrong. So it’s working with some unlikely people in its quest to steer the direction of consumer electronics.
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Nike Sportswear store in Shoreditch
27 August 2008
“Six days before we opened this was a car park,” says Simon Wainwright, Nike’s UK PR, of the new Nike Sportswear store on Bateman Row in Shoreditch. The whitewashed walls and appropriately retro gymnasium-like furniture do a good job of hiding the space’s former use.
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Beefeater Design Competition
26 August 2008
2.5 metres of wire can go a surprisingly long way. For the recent Beefeater Design Challenge in Sweden ten young designers were asked to identify and solve a design problem associated with drinking in a bar.
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Review: Iron Fists
22 August 2008
The tale of how the 20th century’s tyrannies forged their visual identities fascinates William Wiles.
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Greg Lynn’s Blob Wall
21 August 2008
The humble brick has had a redesign courtesy of Greg Lynn/Form. Blob Wall is a partitioning system built up of large individual “blobs”, rotationally moulded from recyclable plastic.
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Sausage-bird
20 August 2008
Sausage-bird is an
installation by Dutch “eating designer” Marije Vogelzang. Wrapped in knitted
wool, the installation looks at first glance like something to cuddle. But
start to unravel the wool and free-range pork and beef sausage meat is revealed
for the viewer to nibble away at.
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Plebsville
19 August 2008
Two years from launch, “Plebsville” has survived the flood of online social-networking. Based on the premise of Lee McCormack’s book, “Designers are Wankers”, the site offers a mix of web 2.0 features for design graduates.
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Villa Alta
18 August 2008
“I wanted it to look like a house made by a kid,” muses architect Johannes Norlander of the Villa Alta. “A kid who was kind of, ‘Fuck the context.’ You know?” This was a particularly maverick approach, given that the context was a very quiet and reserved suburb a few miles outside of Stockholm.
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Review: Buckminster Fuller
15 August 2008
Bucky’s far-reaching vision was merely a starting point for a whole new universe, finds Joseph Grima.
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Ross Lovegrove designs suitcase for Globetrotter
14 August 2008
To celebrate its 110th anniversary, luggage manufacturer Globetrotter has commissioned Ross Lovegrove to inject the brand with a 21st-century aesthetic. The result is a softly curved, plain black suitcase that is claimed to be the world’s lightest, weighing only 1.4kg.
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Arne Quinze for Ferrer
13 August 2008
Belgian designer Arne Quinze and his studio have designed the interior of Ferrer, a new high-concept fashion store in Niewpoort-Bad, Belgium. Clothing in the store is clustered around carpets, and within what the designer describes as “hanging gardens” made of screens of crystal-encrusted threads.
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Competition: Win a Ring Calendar
12 August 2008
Win one of the Ring Calendars designed by Sebastian Bergne for our special feature about online manufacturing.
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Student survey results 2008
12 August 2008
We did a bit of a survey this year. After several editorial meetings wondering whether the limited-edition design phenomenon was influencing graduates’ choice of career path, we thought we’d find out. Are young designers less inclined these days to work with industrial manufacturers?
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icon 063 out now
11 August 2008
This month, icon hits the road, touring the wildest and remotest parts of Norway to see architects squaring up to a formidable challenge: outstanding natural beauty. We visit the remarkable architectural interventions scattered in a sublime landscape of glaciers, mountains, forests and fjords.
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Review: Flip Ultra
08 August 2008
A cheap little camcorder defies the tide of “convergence” and does just one thing well, finds Sean Dodson.
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Graduate shows: Architecture
07 August 2008
This year, London’s architecture degree shows were as eclectic and
artistic as ever, with designs veering between romantic exoticism and
precision engineering. Here are some of our favourites.
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Architecture Foundation’s Summer Nights
06 August 2008
Tonight is the start of the Architecture Foundation’s annual “Summer
Nights” lecture series. Every Wednesday in August, one of London’s most
exciting young architectural practices will present their work and
discuss their ideas with editors and journalists.
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The Shanghai Riddle
06 August 2008
Dutch designer Maarten Baas’ first exhibition in China will open next Friday at the Contrasts Gallery in Shanghai. Called, appropriately enough, the Shanghai Riddle, the show is the culmination of a year’s work for Baas.
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Liberty celebrates 70 years of Knoll
04 August 2008
At a time when creatively-bereft designers are causing problems rather than solving them, it’s thrilling to be reminded that design is intelligence made visible,” said Stephen Bayley at the opening of the Knoll exhibition at Liberty.
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Gallery: 30 years of the Lego minifig
04 August 2008
It has been 30 years since Lego launched its much-loved minifigure,
designed by Jens Nygaard Knudsen. The familiar little yellow men and
women with funny hair and bemused expressions were the culmination of
years of work. Here’s a gallery of the best and most creative over the years.
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Review: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
01 August 2008
It’s a sunny Thursday morning in Hyde Park and the joggers are out in force. I’m just about keeping up with the pensioners, pram-pushers and rambling tourists as I make my way towards the Serpentine Gallery to visit its annual summer pavilion.
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