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Review: Woman as Design
30 October 2009
An arsenal of arses, a bounty of breasts and a lesser number of other female parts get enthusiastically ogled by Stephen Bayley in this bizarre book. We see the women, but where’s the design?
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Feature: Reality 2.0
28 October 2009
Reality as we know it is finished. Welcome to reality 2.0 – where the internet is ubiquitous, and the world is forested with information.
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Design Academy Eindhoven’s graduation show
26 October 2009
Dutch Design Week started with the opening of the Design Academy Eindhoven’s graduation show where the students’ work largely dealt with the aesthetics of waste, sustainability and design for tight spaces.
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Pool Noodle Rooftop by Inaba architects
23 October 2009
On the roof terrace of the former Dia Art Foundation building in Chelsea, New York, Los Angeles-based Inaba architects has designed Pool Noodle Rooftop, a seating installation made from flotation aids.
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Review: Design For Life
19 October 2009
Tonight is the finale of Design For Life, the BBC2 reality show in which young Brits compete for a placement in Philippe Starck’s studio in Paris. Here’s what we thought of the first couple of episodes, from icon 077.
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Review: Ground Control
16 October 2009
Anna Minton’s book about regeneration, crime and urban policy will make anyone who cares about the future of British cities very angry indeed.
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AT&T Performing Arts Centre, Dallas
14 October 2009
The AT&T Performing Arts Centre has opened in Dallas. The $354 million centre includes the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House by Foster & Partners and REX/OMA’s Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre among its facilities.
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MUDE by Ricardo Carvalho & Joana Vilhena Arquitectos
12 October 2009
Destruction was preservation at the new home of the Museum of Design and Fashion, or MUDE, in Lisbon. Ricardo Carvalho & Joana Vilhena Arquitectos took a 1950s bank in the historic centre of the city and sandblasted it to within an inch of its life.
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Issue 077 out now
09 October 2009
Do not adjust your set – the dizzying image on the front cover of icon 077 is a real building. It’s Chiaki Arai’s extraordinary Ofunato Civic Centre, one of the delights of the November issue, which is out now.
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Win tickets to icon minds
08 October 2009
Icon Minds is icon magazine’s first one-day symposium. It takes place on 14 October and it features conversations and debates by some of the most respected figures in design and architecture. Now you can register your details to win a ticket for the event.
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October Diary
08 October 2009
October is in full swing and we have several dates to add to your diary. 14 October is the date for Icon’s first one-day symposium Icon Minds. On the same day Art & Design London opens its doors here in London, followed by David Chipperfield’s exhibition at the Design Museum a week later.
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Gallery: World Peace City by Edgar Gonzalez
08 October 2009
World Peace City is Guatemalan artist Edgar Gonzalez’s Utopian vision of a city. The piece is made up of 300 individual drawings to date, each completed on Gonzalez’s commute from Brooklyn, where he now lives, to Manhattan, where he works as a bartender.
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And the winner is…
05 October 2009
To celebrate the London Design Festival icon magazine gave away £16,000 worth of contemporary furniture at 100% Design. Over 20,000 people registered for the prize draw and we selected the winning name on the last day of the festival.
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