Review: XXIst Century Man
16 May 2008
Issey Miyake’s vision of the future is a dreamlike world of dragons and vacuum cleaners that defies interpretation, finds Julian Worrall.
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Ettore Sottsass's last design
15 May 2008
The last design by Ettore Sottsass will be put into production in July by Italian manufacturer Serralunga. Faituttotu, a collaboration with his partner, British designer Chris Redfern, is a collection of home accessories made of rotation-moulded plastic.
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icon 060 out now
15 May 2008
Icon 060, our June issue, is out now, and has a triple bill of interviews. Nendo, the masters of minimalism, are the cover stars, and tell us how Japanese design is like judo. American architects Office dA go out for coffee and indulge in some mild character assassination, and Turkish designers Autoban kick back with some retro-modernism.
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Snøhetta's opera house
14 May 2008
A rogue iceberg has crashed into the eastern edge of Oslo’s harbour, trumpeting the brash arrival of waterfront regeneration.
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Icon Experiment: Julia Lohmann
13 May 2008
Julia Lohmann has taken kelp, a large seaweed normally found in the shallow oceans around Japan and Ireland, and transformed it into a beautiful material for making lighting objects.
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Icon Experiment: Studio Glithero
12 May 2008
Studio Glithero, co-founded by Sarah Van Gameren and Tim Simpson, exhibited an installation at icon experiment derived from their Big Dipper project; Watch a video of the installation and listen to Simpson talking about their project.
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Icon Experiment: Ted Noten
09 May 2008
Ted Noten has created a mini funfair with his Mr Claw machine at icon experiment. Mr Claw has a 1kg silver bar that you can try and grab, but if you don’t manage there are consolation prizes designed by Noten. Listen to the audio of Noten explaining the concept behind Mr Claw and his other work at icon experiment.
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Icon Experiment: Martino Gamper
08 May 2008
Martino Gamper came to the icon experiment and worked all day re-appropriating a classic design piece of furniture. Listen to the audio of Gamper talking about his performance piece and his process of working on this project.
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Icon Experiment: Stuart Haygarth
07 May 2008
Yesterday at the icon experiment Stuart Haygarth installed a chandelier made out of 1024 pairs of spectacles. This film clip shows the way the spectacles refract the light, creating a stunning dappled effect, whilst Haygarth explains the concept behind the piece.
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Icon Experiment: Julia Lohmann
03 May 2008
Hot glue is dripping from the ceiling, curled kelp is suspended to form lighting objects and motion sensor plants projected onto a wall sway as people walk past them; icon experiment at Grand Designs Live London has begun! Listen to a clip of Julia Lohmann and Gero Grundmann talking about their kelp project.
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Review: The Craftsman
01 May 2008
We’ve had “slow food”, here’s the case for “slow stuff”. Justin McGuirk deploys 500 hand-picked words.
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Milan: Chairs 2
01 May 2008
More chairs from the big manufacturers – the Bouroullec Brothers try out a
previous design in plastic, and Ineke Hans looks to insects for inspiration.
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