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Posts tagged 'Technology'

James Bridle’s Seamless Transitions

The artist and technologist’s latest work is a digital tour of the secret spaces that make up the British asylum and immigration system Artist and

Architecture

The cashpoint

Never mind the scammers – you’re getting ripped off by the designers of these vital but dated, limited and ugly machines “If you notice anything

Design

Keiichi Matsuda: Total digital overload

The London-based designer’s films offer a glimpse into a nightmarish sci-fi future in which every surface, appliance and inch of peripheral vision fizzes with data

Design

Dark matter: Designing for privacy

Thinkers in art, technology, fashion and product design are responding to the threat of mass surveillance with a range of privacy-conscious gadgets that have a

Design

Metahaven: Last year’s Design Studio of the Year

This article first appeared in our January 2014 issue, which included all the winners of last year’s Icon Awards. Read about the nominees for this

Design

Apple’s Jonathan Ive on …

In the final talk in the Design Museum and Icon’s DM25 series, Apple’s head of design discussed design education, carelessness and the Apple Watch …

Design

Ralph Nauta: Studio Drift

The designer and co-founder of the Dutch practice spoke to Icon during Belgrade Design Week last month about nature, technology and the studio’s latest project at

Design

Digital Revolution at the Barbican

The Treachery of Sanctuary by Chris Milk, 2011 Fun, FX and nostalgia are to the fore as the Barbican attempts to cram several trillion pixels

Opinion

Fabrica: Patch of Sky

The Italian research centre brings a touch of sentimentality to the rising tide of “smart” products with Patch of Sky – a set of connected lamps

Design

Vapourware: Technology that could have been

Sun modular computer (1990), designed by Paul Bradley and Jochen Backs The history of computing isn’t a triumphal progress from Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine to the new

Design

Editor's choice

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

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

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

Crafting heritage: 5 highlights from Budapest Design Week 2024

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

Ukrainian creative studio Gushka creates woollen items that bring a new life to ancestral crafts

Meet Studio Bovti: The German design duo expressing their inner child through experimental curiosity and a playful aesthetic

ICON 216 : Autumn/Winter 2024

Faye Toogood discusses the inspiration behind her new furniture collection for Poltrona Frau




Architects

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

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

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

Crafting heritage: 5 highlights from Budapest Design Week 2024

Ukrainian creative studio Gushka creates woollen items that bring a new life to ancestral crafts

Meet Studio Bovti: The German design duo expressing their inner child through experimental curiosity and a playful aesthetic

Faye Toogood discusses the inspiration behind her new furniture collection for Poltrona Frau

EDIT Napoli returns for its sixth edition celebrating an array of global design talent

Design Council names five leading ambassadors for World Design Congress 2025

Kirkby Design partners with Teklan on its latest collection of outdoor fabrics

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


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

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

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

Crafting heritage: 5 highlights from Budapest Design Week 2024

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

Ukrainian creative studio Gushka creates woollen items that bring a new life to ancestral crafts

Meet Studio Bovti: The German design duo expressing their inner child through experimental curiosity and a playful aesthetic

ICON 216 : Autumn/Winter 2024

Faye Toogood discusses the inspiration behind her new furniture collection for Poltrona Frau