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Posts tagged 'Technology'

Leaf blowers: The noisy, disruptive nuisance that soundtracks autumn

The weaponisation of suburban gardening turns autumn into a season of red mist for Edwin Heathcote There is something a little mournful about autumn: the

Design

Dyson launches the Airblade 9kJ with some major new features

The hygienic, energy efficient new hand dryer from Dyson is also its quietest ever PROMOTIONAL FEATURE The major new development in the newest hand dryer

Design

Nam June Paik and his video art predicted the tensions of the digital age

Bye Bye Kipling 1986, single channel video featuring live satellite broadcast. Via Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, and the estate of Nam June Paik

Design

How is technology overload affecting our physical and mental health?

A panel of experts brought together by ICON discusses the impact of digital devices on our minds and bodies – and asks how better design

Design

The Moon Lander: NASA’s ugly but essential spacecraft

Photograph courtesy NASA Neil Armstrong’s ‘giant leap’ came from the step of an awkward alien spacecraft that was at home on neither Earth nor moon,

Design

Building fashion: ‘I don’t believe we will use scissors for the rest of human history’

Fashion has so far resisted the pull of digital technology, but now architects and designers are joining forces to revolutionise the industry’s way of working,

Architecture

‘There is something horribly Victorian about Deliveroo’

Weighed down by student debt and living costs, millennials now have another burden to carry: the Deliveroo backpack The booker-shortlisted novel His Bloody Project by

Design

Is the era of ‘iconic’ architecture coming to an end?

As the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology opened in Lisbon, a new wave of European architects exhibiting alongside it asked if extravagant, self-consciously sculptural

Architecture

Electrocraft: How designers are rethinking electronics

The world of electronics is shaped by mass manufacture. But now an elite band of ‘electro craftsmen’ are exploring how design can bring out the

Design

Airbnb’s Joe Gebbia: ‘It was the beginning of designer’s guilt, and it planted a pretty deep seed in me’

The co-founder of the global holiday rental service on the future of design and his new philanthropic project The home rental service Airbnb began life

Architecture

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BAINA collaborates with Estudio Persona to create a limited-edition towelling collection

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

RIMOWA collaborates with Ptolemy Mann for its latest limited-edition release

Play by the book: GANNI’s blueprint for responsible fashion

Meet Slow – the family business championing a conscious approach to soft furnishings

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

How Jean Jullien is bringing smiles to audiences around the world with his Paper People

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage




Architects

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Out of rubble: archigrest and topoScape reimagine Warsaw’s Uprising Mound as a living park and monument

A new exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center puts on show a bold response to rising waters

LA practice Kadre Architects uses design as a street-level tool for social change

A new book by Stefano Casciani offers an insight into Piero Lissoni’s work

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy

Architecture Icon: Alvar and Aino Aalto’s house in Helsinki bears all the hallmarks of their approach to design


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BAINA collaborates with Estudio Persona to create a limited-edition towelling collection

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

RIMOWA collaborates with Ptolemy Mann for its latest limited-edition release

Play by the book: GANNI’s blueprint for responsible fashion

Meet Slow – the family business championing a conscious approach to soft furnishings

How Jean Jullien is bringing smiles to audiences around the world with his Paper People

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Meet Milla Novo: The textile artist bridging the gap between technology and heritage crafts


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BAINA collaborates with Estudio Persona to create a limited-edition towelling collection

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

RIMOWA collaborates with Ptolemy Mann for its latest limited-edition release

Play by the book: GANNI’s blueprint for responsible fashion

Meet Slow – the family business championing a conscious approach to soft furnishings

Snøhetta’s Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

How Jean Jullien is bringing smiles to audiences around the world with his Paper People

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage