Tag: design

  • Retrotopia: Design for Socialist Spaces

    This groundbreaking exhibition brings together 11 countries from the former communist bloc and explores the role of design works made there during the 1950s to the 80s

  • Sabine Marcelis – interview: ‘I love to play with light’

    The Dutch designer talks about her installation at the Vitra Schaudepot, which shines a fresh light on the collection of the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, and explains how her passion for sport and nature has informed her work

  • Otl Aicher: Design. Type. Thinking. – book review

    Aicher’s designs for the 1972 Munich Olympics changed the face of graphic design, but there was much more to his work. This book explores how his writing, thinking and making reflected the political, cultural and social climate of his time

  • Night Fever: Designing Club Culture

    With nightclubs facing massive uncertainty after more than a year of closure, the V&A Dundee’s exhibition is a reminder of what we stand to lose if they don’t receive more support

  • Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg – interview: ‘We need to radically rethink our behaviours, globally’

    The coronavirus pandemic is a chance for people to ask how they can do better by nature, says Ginsberg, who talks about her work using artificial intelligence and technology

  • Vienna Design Week 2019

    From buildings to sustainable products to gaming technology, this year’s design festival proved a welcome look at how to care for our beleaguered environment

  • Vienna Design Week 2018

    What’s the difference between design and art? This year’s Vienna Design Week went a long way to answering that perennial question. Designers, artists, architects and educators from all over central Europe used this platform to interrogate how and why we…

  • V&A Dundee opens: a monumental structure that aims to take the city under its wing

    Kengo Kuma has delivered a new landmark in the V&A Dundee. It is a craggy sculptural structure inspired by the city’s shipbuilding past and Scotland’s rugged cliffs, which Kuma hopes will reconnect the city with nature. Inside, he has crafted…

  • Fashioned from Nature

    As environmental changes affect more areas of the world, our lifestyles need to be more sustainable. Looking back over 400 years of fashion history, Fashioned from Nature asks what humans have done wrong and how we can innovate to improve

  • Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-1989

    The exhibition is a must-see for anyone interested in the early history of computer technology and its connection to art and design