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The Sustainable Design from Finland exhibition is part of the event Alla Luce del Nord ("In the Light of the North"), which provides a new kind of open arena for exchange of ideas between designers and artists Helsinki and Venice, and in a larger scale, between Finland and Italy.
Good design is both functional and pleasing to the eye and touch. Good design is also sustainable in the sense that it stands the test of time and use. Sustainable design is good for ...
Tin bee, Vespacar or Fun Car, the Piaggio APE50 has many names. The three-wheeler is actually a really spartan mini truck. The German industrial designer Cornelius Comanns, however, transformed it for his Bachelor project at the FH Munich into a comfortable (for him) base camp for travel-happy individualist: Bufalino.
With loads of paper models and proportion tests Comanns explored the most efficient way to use space in the one-man mobile home. Bufalino now offers everything you ...
Art and science continue to mingle in the creations designed by Issey Miyake and his entourage. After last year's catwalk where the brand's creative director Dai Fujiwara was inspired by the geometric patterns that mathematician William Thurston developed to calculate the shape of the universe, in the more experimental 1235 collection, the father of Japanese fashion design was inspired by the mathematical algorithm created by Dr. Jun Mitani, a computer scientist at the University of ...
It has taken three years of work and 36 million dollars to prepare the new museum devoted to Salvador Dalì in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The Dalì Museum, which contains almost one hundred works of the master - the most prestigious collection about Dalì outside Spain, opened its doors just yesterday.
On the AOL Travel News website they have referred to it as "one of the buildings to be seen before dying". The project is of the architect ...
The LP is dead, long live the LP cover! Digital miniature thumbnails on download portals and MP3 players leave no latitude for brilliant cover designs. What a loss! Which is why musician and communications designer Amos is celebrating good old LP artwork with his new album "Showtime": every cover is individually designed by an artist. Not the record label determines the price but the designers. About the new symbiosis between music and art.
Long gone are ...
Grey hair, always well-dressed and extravagant spectacles, Rossana Orlandi is the grande dame of the design gallery scene. If you are allowed to exhibit in her gallery, you've made it.
Finding design in Milan is non difficult, the city is brimming with the exclusive showrooms of large companies. Those on the lookout for something special, however, make their way to Spazio Rossana Orlandi. You will find it hidden in Via Bandello, a side-street off the beaten ...
Sketching well is extremely important in any type of Design field. In Car Design sketching well a car is fundamental, it is with a good series of sketches that a car designer can present an ideation or brainstorming step of his project. Good sketches sell well your ideas, they explane concepts without an oral presentation. On the contrary; when sketches are not well done it becomes more difficult for a designer to illustrate his ideas ...
Today every city wants to be a creative capital, especially Berlin.
What else is left for this city, which following the world war and division has long since lost the most of its industry worth mentioning? The city council quite rightly calls the efforts in this sector "Project Future". If you speak in Berlin of the "creative industries" this means many different things: the book and press market, software development, games and telecommunications services, advertising market, ...
One thing you can say about Karim Rashid: nobody before him has availed themselves so absolutely of the popular cliché for a designer. From his biography: born in Cairo, grown up in Canada, studio in New York; and his outfit, horn-rimmed spectacles. white suit, sneakers; to his creations, Rashid absolutely satisfies the popular vision of the designer as a slightly crazy "maître de plaisir", as a great showman of illusion who spoils his public with ...
Can one write with chairs? One can: the Dutchman Roeland Otten originally designed his ABChairs for a semi-public park; they were intended to inspire the visitors to create words and thereby communicate with one another.
For the 26 seating opportunities the graphic designer came up with a patchwork typeface of his own, which had to follow the rules of ergonomics: Serifs are used if the structure requires them (for example in the case of "i" and ...
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In the late 1920s, three progressive and influential patrons of the arts, Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., perceived a need to challenge the ...
1 January, 2013 at 8:22 pm | on Museums
Built in a historic area near temple of Gawdawpalin, on the banks of Ayeyarwaddy, a few steps away from Old Bagan Archaeological Museum.
The architect has combined influences that reflect the ancient and ...
Bottega Artigianale Lavacca is an artisanal workshop where love for wood, culture and respect for the traditions of master artisan Mario and his son Libero manifests in creations designed and made entirely ...
An extraordinary historical collection of exceptional interest, telling the technical evolution of the Fire Brigade National Corps.
The first and only Fire Brigade Historical Museum opened to the public and housed in a ...
21 March, 2012 at 2:26 pm | on Museums
The navigation lock of Governolo brings us back to the period of Attila king of the Huns.
According to the tradition, this is the place where, in 452, the historic encounter took place ...
