Handmade leather and felt pouches, each designed for a specific purpose. That’s hard graft’s idea …
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans, as John Lennon …
In contrast to unthinking banality comes the art of reinvention. A graphic designer symbolically puts …
Future-worthy vintage. The stylus of the Void LP player takes the form of a red …
Masculine inspiration and feminine fit. An unconventional, exclusive interpretation that transforms every garment into a …
In Kreuzberg, Berlin at its most authentic, SchubLaden cultivates the art of reviving old drawers. …
All it takes to alter reality is a little rule-bending. Thom Faulders explores the relationship …
If an artificial tree is the eco-friendly alternative to an uprooted fir, then a cardboard …
Emptiness and substance, volatility and consistency. Rebecca Ward uses mild but potent weapons in her …
Coqui Coqui, or the essential boutique hotel: just seven rooms, containing made-to-measure furniture and homely …
A fine art boutique. Labokoff explores the relationship between photography and painting and comes up …
Illustration meets videogame: Machinarium is the new, completely hand-drawn, graphic adventure from Amanita Design. A …
The case of a complex personality, Concrete Moon is building with two souls: curved and …
Tokyo, Paris, New York: the city fades into the background, revealing itself in photographic details, …
Explorations. Sketches, drawings, thought experiments. With the blog as a tool, the artist uses the …
No-frills luxury. Wild scenery, minimal superstructure and a laid-back rhythm: the privilege of a relaxed …
A contemporary return to roots: the family tree gets a new look. In the capable …
It’s not a mouse, nor is it a remote control or a wooden toy. Skål …
Glimpses of war, life and beauty. Penetrating images that transcend the two dimensions of their …
A large well-being machine nestling in the bosom of the mountain, visible only via the …
Collage, drawing, engraving and stencils. In the multi-layered world of Ana Ventura, nothing is what …
Floppy disks and camera film, along with hitch-hiking and hand-written letters: objects and habits once …
The tourist follows fast, well-beaten tracks. The traveller takes slow and unpredictable paths, on the …
The end of an era: that of Minesweeper and Solitaire on the computer. Today, those …
Design that imitates nature: forms become simpler, materials are reduced to the bare minimum. Styling …
Simple food, sophisticated techniques: that is the secret of Michel Bras, one of the most …
Colourful, amazing, kaleidoscopic: that is how the world appeared to whole generations of young readers, …
A predestined encounter. Two complementary and yet parallel worlds rejoining. Paris: Slowear and M Le …
A collision of opposing forces: the breaking of a wave, the shattering of light on …
The memory of the world, even the immaterial world, is safeguarded in images. We can …
Hot and cold, fire and water, volcanic rock and ice: wellbeing is the harmony born …
Perfume is a suit. Off the peg, it is a lifeless costume. Made to measure, …
Music evolving into illustration, colour, graphic design, work of art. In 1938, in an office …
Your body becomes lighter, gravity insignificant, your feet leave the ground. Then the dizzy sensation …
Photographic impressionism. If the lens is a brush that sketches nature, then its images, despite …
Herzog & de Meuron, or how to convert a power station into London’s temple of …
Taste is cyclical. In other words, time changes the rules of aesthetics, altering their meaning …
The perfect plan: six New York architects and designers with European roots, an alpine village …
Can we only believe what we see? If that were so, the moon landing sceptics …
The United States, first half of the 20th century. In an era of avant-garde, realism …
Associations. From mental images, moods and mutations to chromatic scales, illuminations and subtleties of shade. …
Once photography arrived, reproducing reality was no longer the mission of art. Along came impressionism, …
A book cover is a fashion statement. Not enough to make it a bestseller, maybe, …
Variations on the theme of classic photography. Images that encapsulate the history of the 20th …
When architecture becomes art, we see it differently. Respect creates distance, separating places from their …
An electronic wall that lights up according to mathematical sequences generated by the movement of …
Making objects talk is easy. Just use their surface as a palette and cover them …
There are grey areas in every translation, ideas that loose depth and definition in the …
Symbolism in the service of design. Vladimir Usoltsev takes inspiration from the lotus flower to …
Politicians, directors, architects and artists, not forgetting friends, lovers, liberals and conservatives: Swedish designer Archie …
It might seem like a simple dilemma. On one hand, a typeface: clearly two-dimensional, certainly …
Where does the art end? There’s no change in colour, just unbroken whiteness. Where does …
Every biography traces a path, joining distant points and creating unpredictable junctions. Mario Schifano brings …
Where does the infinite begin? At Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, the works of masters such …
Q. How can good intentions, brainwaves and states of mind be captured for posterity? A. …
It takes a young design studio to remind us that the object often seen on …
From the natural to the artificial. Too simple to work? Not so, according to CJC …
Virginia Woolf contented herself with a single room. Chaplin opted for a house in the …
First there’s curiosity: it’s hard to make out the embossed numbers at first glance. Then …
A bookcase that considers the books’ feelings. Inside, the book becomes a living thing, where …
A Guarda. A fishing village on the Atlantic, the last gasp of Galizia before Portugal. …
Urbanek photographs colour meeting water, a micro-second before it dissipates, capturing the shapes that emerge …
Do you suffer from scary black holes? Is your day a patchwork of commitments and …
Pre-holiday dilemma: the desire to forget all about the daily routine versus the need to …
At what point do art and design meet, transforming our perception of a period into …
Take a web page. Add a gallery of clips in which various musicians test their …
Colours and lines. Handmade compositions using minimal elements that catch the eye. A single stroke …
Contrasts. Warhol, Man Ray, Koons: contemporary art within the walls of a 1930s tea room, …
Perth is an outpost. Far from the other Australian cities, connected to five continents yet …
Less is more. Take a wall clock and remove one component at a time, to …
During the Roman Empire, each month of the year was associated with a flower and …
A shower of light, vibrant and emotional. 91 wires, each one illuminated by LEDs creatively …
Pure wood, free of pollutants, from the forests of the North Pacific. Basic forms, shaped …
The Internet emerged for military reasons, spread for commercial reasons and became the framework for …
A hanging garden, 2009 style: the designer Patrick Morris has invented a flowerpot that allows …
After 125 years, it’s still present in thousands of pockets. Because it’s the ultimate multi-purpose …
Could art be the secret of the new American dream? From the nation that sees …
Pick an old industrial complex, bursting with history, on the banks of the river Lambro. …
An empty wall, stolen from the streets of NY. Your choice of handwriting. Try your …
Don’t believe in appearances. Follow your instinct. Little everyday maxims to guide you through life’s …
Understanding wood, reading the grain and the signs that indicate where it grew and what …
Applied linguistics. In Spanish, ‘esperar’ means to hope and to wait. Hope is waiting for …
White lies: the perfect way to wind down with a smile before switching off the …
Every morning I pass the river on my way to work. I’ve never seen the …
Timo Stammberger photographs corners of the metropolis, finding peace and silence under the swarming streets. …
Start with an idea and don’t stop until it becomes reality. From New Zealand, this …
A vortex of tape and binding rising from the ground, giving the impression of something …
Packaging: the wrapping that holds a good. It has to attract attention, arouse interest and …
Where does artistic genius conceal itself when the means of expression are increasingly serialized? In …
Extraordinary products for everyday life. In other words, mundane objects that are easy on the …
Repairing is a creative challenge. The opposite of consumption is imagination: re-thinking the use of …
Banq, Boston. Flavours from faraway find a new home: the renovated Penny Saving building, transformed …
Sculpture is the art of removing, liberating. Architecture transcends construction when it redesigns the landscape …
Touching, feeling. Taking a photograph is like piloting an airplane: an unnatural everyday action, freezing …
Creating history, and making it a shared experience. Robert Capa’s camera took the eyes of …
Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are. A title hints …
Tackle the Antarctic head-on, savouring the purity of its horizons. Put yourself in the hands …
Know-how. Personal actions have social consequences. If individual behaviour can make the world a better …
The perfect contours of curved forms testify to consummate skill in making tough and precious …
Nations, cooperation, peace. How can graphic art convey such principles? An experiment: morph the shapes …
Democratic photography. With a Polaroid, every location becomes a photographic set, every subject an actor. …
&: a unique character, neither a letter nor a punctuation mark, more a conceptual symbol …
Four artists split between Belfast and New York. A book that sails the ocean every …
1954, Caracas. Giò Ponti designs and furnishes Villa Planchart. In the profound quality of each …
Empire and environs: Rome’s Maxxi museum catalyzes the energy of Italian art. Alberto Garutti depicts …
Glossy surfaces, characters combining classical and cartoon iconography. The childish style masks a serious mission: …
Leave behind every thought, every attempt to take control. Give in to the ocean: let …
Taste is personal, and to let you exercise your free will from the moment you …
\r\n Hella Jongerius tests the capacity of materials and colours to merge, generating the kind …
Good design can change the world. In 1964, American marketing and modernist European design came …
Developing a sustainable market. Boxed Water blends marketing, ecology and art: recyclable materials, energy savings …
His architecture punctuates the spiky contours of Big Sur with its sinuous, hypnotic structures, stage …
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia: a huge desert of salt, an unlikely succession of mountains, thermal …
For 120 years, the Eiffel Tower has embodied creative daring and the leap into the …
The setting is the most banal of lives, transfigured by the perspective of a girl …
The essential is invisible to the human eye. Experiencing a land under transformation every day, …
High end DJ desks. An irresistible temptation for the artistic ego: if rock stars can …
Salone del Mobile 2009, Tortona district. If fashion occupies space, design gives it back to …
For the first time, Ferran Andrià takes us behind the scenes at El Bulli. His …
The port of Le Havre: imposing concrete and steel structures reflect centuries of trade. By …
From reality to mathematical abstraction and back again. Sophie Baillot uses the tools of pure …
Hard to understand at first glance. Repeating series of geometric structures, split by vague lines …
Let there be light, as easy as making a cup of tea. From Seoul, Lighting …
White, to reflect light from the Tagus. Sinuous like the ocean, in the undulating roof. …
Create a flowerbed in a car park. Mark out a cycle path using stencils. 99 …
A reflection of oneself in a 10-metre tall photo spread across a wall or a …
When looking at art, we have a right to ask whether it is intended or …
1907, USA: the birth of the postcard, travelling pictures depicting familiar sceneries. Walker Evans collected …
Write an ‘A’ with a ball of wool, an ‘E’ with freshly cut grass and …
Zaha Hadid has observed the geometric perfection of corals and the hypnotic motion of waves: …
Every possible climate comes down to clouds and sun: overcast, rainy, bright or blue. Stealing …
Dates, deadlines, things to do, problems to solve. The passing of time generates stress every …
Striking bands of colour, escaping their frames, enliven virgin walls. Light exists in a world …
Ukiyoe, ‘pictures of a floating world’. Painting is a meeting place for man and nature, …
A shared aesthetic landscape of objects, shapes and colours creates identity. Symbols of Italian life …
New sustainable architecture combines electronic and biochemical principles with inert building materials. Philips imagines an …
Communication in the third millennium is graphic: words clothed in images. What if images replaced …
Nature always has the solution. At the start of the 20th century, industrial art and …
Less is more. A (sort of) simple idea: use mobile phone technology to create a …
Q. When is a book not a book? A. When a small publishing house translates …
Tempting us to screw our eyes up in order to focus properly, Swedish photographer Sannah …
Linguistic short circuits. The first pictorial report of the world’s graffiti writers is born: photos …
Rubber walls: lightweight, natural materials shaped into resilient structures to define new areas in any …
NY syndrome: how to pick an itinerary in the city that sums up all the …
The rules are dead, long live the rules. Milan, 1909. Futurism explodes: art reflects the …
Concrete and steel, distant echoes of industry. A vast, contemporary space for art that detaches …
Slow, studied movements; telling looks; beguiling, rarefied exchanges. Wong Kar Wai introduces a new cinematic …
Shepard Fairey, aka Obey Giant, uses the infinite reproducibility of print as a weapon. Honest …
A theatre rediscovered in the suburbs of Paris. A bare, unadorned stage, leaving room for …
Laughter may bury us someday, but applause can only do us good. The English artist …
Milan celebrates ‘Identità Golose’. The masters of haute cuisine tackle the basics: vegetables, the raw …
Dark and daunting, yet light and airy. The ‘black diamond’ is a library, concert hall …
How to give shape and substance to a city’s spirit. From 1955 to 1961, Giò …
Have we met before somewhere? At the crossroads between design, wellbeing, eco-thinking and practicality. The …
A bookshop hidden among the fabrics of the Latin Quarter in Paris since 1951. Wooden …
The mp3 player goes vintage. Like old gramophones, the Phonofone exploits the acoustic virtues of …
Keep it simple. Stories: pictured, narrated, lived. Robert Redford celebrates 25 years of the Sundance …
A diary devoid of times or dates. Words set in the open space of a …
Does the market choose art or does art shape the market? New voices on the …
Madsberg’s drawings illustrate and educate, with colour, a light touch and a retro feel. After …
Casa Necchi Campiglio is the paradigm of an absolute aesthetic. Piero Portaluppi’s design celebrates rationalism, …
Art fills the spaces left devoid of words, blank pages whose fascination is in their …
Art fills the spaces left devoid of words, blank pages whose fascination is in their …
