Texas-based artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler have devoted the past decade to documenting the experience of movie going.
Magazine stylist-turned-designer Faye Toogood has furnished galleries with corn, made chairs out of milking stools and has just released her third collection of pieces inspired by rural England.
Christo, the artist who gift-wrapped the Pont Neuf and Reichstag, has spent years battling for permission to realise his extravagant installations.
Dominic Wilcox’s drawings are well-known to readers of Icon: they appeared in the magazine every month for two years. But the designer, artist and solver of niche problems is also a careful craftsman who doesn’t feel the need to tell us what to make of his work.
With less than a year to go before the 2012 Olympics in London, how is the park shaping up – and what difference will the multi-billion-pound project make after the athletes leave? Kieran Long looks at what it tells about how the British make cities.
It’s a tough time to leave university. But in the face of debt, an uncertain economy and fierce competition for work, these 15 design graduates have, between them, amassed an outstanding collection of innovative and diverse projects.
It’s a tough time to leave university. But in the face of debt, an uncertain economy and fierce competition for work, these 15 design graduates have, between them, amassed an outstanding collection of innovative and diverse projects.
It’s a tough time to leave university. But in the face of debt, an uncertain economy and fierce competition for work, these 15 design graduates have, between them, amassed an outstanding collection of innovative and diverse projects.
The architect Toyo Ito’s gallery for his own work on the Japanese island of Omishima is poignant, mysterious and far from self-aggrandising.
Studio Nucleo’s range of furniture made from transparent cubes of resin is handcrafted but has a distinctly digital aesthetic.
If you’ve spent the past four years chasing her exhibitions around the capital, breathe easy – celebrated curator Libby Sellers is about to open her first permanent gallery in central London.
Hagy Belzberg weaves traditional Hawaiian features into a luxurious home in the shadow of the world’s most active volcano.
A Glasgow designer has taken one of life’s more ubiquitous objects and stripped it back to a kit of plywood parts.
The design duo’s restaurant interiors have to meet the exacting standards of some of the world’s most celebrated, and demanding, chefs.
Barbosa & Guimarães’ modernist courthouse is an imposing symbol of civic strength rising out of a public square.
The pared-down furniture in the Objet Préféré show is inspired by the lives of the workers in the Belgian museum where it is being exhibited.
Street stalls, offices and a roof that doubles as a wall are just some of the features of this Majorcan town centre development.
Vivian Chiu’s quirky wooden chair functions only when the individual frames are slotted together like the parts of a Russian doll.
Estudio Huma’s landmark school complex in south-east Spain is a splash of artificial green in the scorched desert landscape.
Artist Jeremy Hutchison explores the nature of mass production by getting factory workers from around the world to throw a spanner in the works.
The Portuguese architect uses bright colours in this refurbished townhouse to highlight his interventions. Just don’t call the results “striking”.
A cookery class for the visually impaired inspired Neora Zigler’s range of safety-conscious kitchen tools that engage with the user’s sense of touch.
The industrial flavour of Ricardo Bak Gordon’s olive processing plant is tempered by a drizzle of traditional Portuguese design.
The ten-block extension to James Corner’s New York rooftop garden takes in breathtaking views and an ever-changing variety of tropical greenery.
To help celebrate our centenary, Icon challenged food design studio Blanch & Shock to stretch the boundaries of sponge-based sculpture…
“Icon” is not a word to be used lightly on these pages but, on the occasion of our hundredth issue, somehow it seemed appropriate.
Levete describes her choices as “Something old, something gold, a piece of nature, something by me, and a potato peeler.”
London studio A Practice for Everyday Life steals candy (or at least its packaging) from babies and reclaims it as a sophisticated snack for adults.
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