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Gallery: Kiosk
30 June 2008
All of these objects were collected on a trip to Hong Kong by New York-based duo Kiosk. The couple travel the world in search of “interesting items” that they buy to sell in their New York shop. Among the collection are a set of airmail envelopes, a frying tool, a big yellow calculator and some soy sauce.
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Review: The House of Viktor & Rolf
26 June 2008
Does fashion belong in a gallery? This was the topic of one of the debates running alongside the House of Viktor & Rolf exhibition at the Barbican.
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Folkestone Triennial
26 June 2008
This giant seagull is one of 22 attractions created by artists at the Folkestone Triennial, a three-month arts festival in the Kent port. It’s the Mobile Gull Appreciation Unit by American artist Mark Dion, a travelling information booth aimed at rehabilitating the much-maligned seagull.
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Philippe Starck’s School of Design
25 June 2008
The BBC is accepting applications from aspiring designers to take part in a new reality TV show that promises to be Fame Academy meets the Apprentice for the design world.
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LFA on Exhibition Road
24 June 2008
Exhibition Road in Kensington resembled a giant playground for kids and adults alike as the London Festival of Architecture enjoyed its opening on Saturday.
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Cult of Design
23 June 2008
Plastic dolls of Karim Rashid and Jaime Hayon are the graduation project of Central Saint Martins student Olivia Lee, who decided to turn “the designer” into a product.
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Boris Johnson speech at LFA
20 June 2008
The new mayor of London, Boris Johnson received a warm reception at the opening of the London Festival of Architecture last night where he spoke of his ambition for the city.
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Muji Competition
19 June 2008
The third Muji Award International Design Competition is happening in July, with the chance for both budding and established designers to try their hand at applying the Muji way of life to their design thinking.
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Steven Holl takes on Kafka
18 June 2008
From the outside, Steven Holl’s new home for the Franz Kafka Society looks like any other on the narrow streets of Prague’s former Jewish Quarter, but once you step over the threshold a whole new world opens up.
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There is no Braun-ness anymore
17 June 2008
“There is no Braun-ness anymore,” says New York-based industrial designer Joe Doucet, who has speculatively created a toaster, mobile phone and music player for the German manufacturer.
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The Brompton Stoops
16 June 2008
The Brompton Stoops are 30 cardboard structures that will be occupying London’s Exhibition Road when it is pedestrianised for the opening weekend of the London Festival of Architecture this month. Designed by 6a Architects, they combine to form pavilions, or can stand alone as places to watch the world go by.
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RepRap
12 June 2008
An engineer at Bath University has successfully tested a rapid-prototyping machine that can reproduce itself. Components made by a “RepRap” device, developed by Dr Adrian Bowyer, have now been assembled into a second, working rapid-prototyper, which was immediately set to work creating a third.
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Elephant House
11 June 2008
An elephant house designed by Foster & Partners was unveiled yesterday at Copenhagen Zoo. The architecture giant’s first building for animals, the house apparently boasts the latest zoological standards in terms of the elephants’ well-being.
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icon 061 out now
10 June 2008
Things get ugly in the July issue of icon, which is out now. We look at the designers who are breaking free of the straitjacket of beauty and creating work that’s ugly – in a good way.
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Artists’ Playground
09 June 2008
Carsten Holler, Ai Weiwei, Michael Craig-Martin, Tom Dixon and Zaha Hadid are among the artists and designers who have created works for Artists’ Playground, an exhibition in the grounds of Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire.
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Richard Serra at the Grand Palais
09 June 2008
The simple act of walking up and down the vast nave of Paris’ Grand Palais was how American artist Richard Serra found inspiration for his latest work, Promenade.
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Review: All Tomorrow’s Parties
06 June 2008
A mountainous plastic white tent scars the still grey Exmoor coastline, with the word “BUTLINS” emblazoned on the outside in a cheery red and yellow font.
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Design Miami/Basel
05 June 2008
Brad Pitt popped into Design Miami/Basel – the Swiss edition of the collectors fair that takes place annually in Florida – to do a spot of shopping earlier this week. Among the pieces on offer was work by Dutch practice Studio Makkink & Bey, London-based designer Julia Lohmann and Swiss design school École cantonale d’art de Lausanne.
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Ordos 100
04 June 2008
Six months ago, 100 young architects, many of them without a building to their name, received an invitation to design a 1,000sq m villa in a desert region of inner Mongolia. The architects had 100 days to produce a scheme and present their designs to the client, Cai Jiang, and the curator of the project, Chinese artist and architect Ai Weiwei.
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Maggie’s Centre London
03 June 2008
“This is probably one of the worst sites you can possibly imagine to build a care centre in!” laughs Richard Rogers, referring to the first Maggie’s Centre in England, which was designed by Rogers Harbour Stirk + Partners and opened in May.
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Pylon in Birmingham
02 June 2008
London-based Block Architecture has designed a 95ft pylon to promote the Climate Change Festival in Birmingham town centre. The polished nickel-plated structure literally reflects the issue of energy consumption.
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