Are you experiencing vinyl nostalgia? Making up for the immaterial nature of mp3 files, the …
The programme is wide and rather interesting, featuring a great diversity: there are big names …
New York’s Subway #6 trains ride all the way through Manhattan, making their way down …
It is also true, though, that these researches have been carried out by Altromercato, the …
The winning photograph by David Chancellor has quite a strong subject: a teen girl hunter …
Once voted among the worst places to live in England, today Hackney is one of …
Caring for the environment starts right at home. Particularly in the kitchen, the room where …
Smokers, cell-phone gabbers, hospital-scrubs wearers and yawners. Danish photographer Peter Funch captures human similarities and …
Research, innovation and ethics: in the future, the real individuality of a product will have …
On January 27, 1967, singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco committed sucicide during the Festival di Sanremo as …
Steep and winding alleys rutted by tram rails, ancient run-down palaces, and the poignant tunes …
A closer look at the everyday world can offer many unusual discoveries. In a time …
With its distinctive white domes, The Eden Project – built on the site of a …
It was 1960. With a visionary style, just apparently detached from the truth, Fellini changed …
The relationship between art and trade has always been difficult and controversial: in order to …
A daring interpretation of modern Shanghai, where old and new sit side by side. This …
From oil you came, and unto oil you shall return. Typically made from petroleum, plastic …
Font designs, magazines, poster illustrations and logos. In Switzerland, type design has been a high …
A small film festival open to every single web user: 6,500 selected videos, nine award …
Lightness, verticality and transparency: the trademark qualities of Norman Foster’s design are hardly mistaken. The …
The Russian art world shows its brand new face in Turin, where the freshest and …
Stalks, peels, leaves, fishbones… It’s hard to believe how many potentially precious ingredients end up …
Running on a green lawn until you find yourself high up upon the sea. Walking …
Have you ever wondered what happens to fascia signs when companies move, update their logos …
Observation, reproduction, repetition. Here are the main acts that give birth to the visual poetics …
It all started with 9/11, when the internatonal TV networks aired clips filmed by common …
‘I’m inspired greatly by mid-century illustration and design and also contemporary work that mirrors that …
Made out of a hangar and surrounded by green spaces, Proef is a little “city-farm” …
“Futurperspectives” is the meaningful title of this year’s edition, that will involve a new location …
After Paris and New York, the most eccentric gastronomic event lands in Milan on October …
Perfection is a quality of nature. Inspired by the geometrical structure of a sea-urchin skeleton, …
What if the digital icons that we’re so used to took shape and became tangible …
Pure reflections. llusory distortions of the natural world: the changing seasons and colors, foliage, weather, …
Against the coldness of industrial pieces of furniture, Marama plays with concepts and with old …
665 photographs of 152 different objects found at roadside, depicted from various vantage points and …
Take a glow-in-the-dark gallery for modern art and place it in a field on the …
If you can’t choose between delicious food and good music, this is the place for …
If you happen to be in Rome in the next few days, keep an eye …
The city, deconstructed. Serge Mendzhiyskogo’s collage photography turns busy cityscapes into paintings with a Cubist …
Francesco Bertelli is New York City’s ultimate bicycle manufacturer: each bicycle he assembles is a …
Dalì’s inner and outer landscapes. From the chaos of reality to the silence of the …
Artists can’t help being creative, even when they take a break. The guys at YouWorkForThem …
For many years, the world relied on floppy disks to store information. As these physical …
Art, science, photography, and exploration. Celebrating the greatest age of astronomy the world has ever …
September 2010: feeling the wind of change of the new season, Slowear grows with fresh …
Accelerated life, moving in jerks. A city condensed in miniature format. In this little masterpiece …
Classical and fantastical, scientific and surreal. The newly designed Dalì Museum in St Petersburg, Florida, …
A contemporary city with an ancient soul. Four Floors is the quintessential Istanbul experience: a …
A phone number, a grocery list, a remainder: this very second, someone, somewhere, is busy …
People and places. Silhouetted faces and bodies refecting themselves on an intricate labyrinth of buildings …
Still life with plastic flowers and computer cables. Showing the similarity of structure between nature …
900 years of wine history. The ancient Würzburg wine cellar is born to a new …
The world seen from behind a car window on a rainy day. Bill Sosin’s City …
Travelogue, or the forgotten art of promoting travel. Its inventor was Burton Holmes, the world’s …
Artificial reefs in a human shape. Establishing an intricate relationship between modern art and the …
Capturing the moment in time: light, shadows and coloror shades. As an ultimate tribute to …
If human imagination is the limit to our creative entreprises, then good ideas are very …
Take an old castle on a hill overlooking the Maremma countryside, add a spoonful of …
Atemporal faces on a red background. Salustiano’s painting fuses the rigour of Renaissance with contemporary …
A part of Danish cultural history, and a symbol for modern design. Createdby Finn Juhl …
Art in form of charity. Preserving the memory of what happened in Haiti on January …
It’s not Venice, and it’s not Cannes. Throughout its 63 year history, the Festival del …
Simple materials and state-of-the-art technology. Maison Passive is a glance into the future: a home …
Unusual correspondences. Can you transfer the literary qualities of a writer to an object? Polish …
Elastic spirals, liquid forms, texts warping or sliding on corners. In order to introduce himself, …
Why leave the water uslessly running? ‘Stop the water while using me!’ is new brand …
A place for sperimentation. Drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking and animation: Todd St. John, best known …
All children grow up, except graphic designers. Nurturing creativity requires the preservation of our primary …
Make every picture count. This is the mantra that Martin Wilson repeats to himself since …
Our idea of a reader’s nirvana? Imagine a small and strikingly designed art bookshop, located …
A contemplation on the micro and macroscopic in nature. Mari LaCure investigates the vastness and …
Care for details, evolution in style, concern for materials and treatments: in other words, Slowear’s …
A sharp and light presence on the London skyline, disappearing in the air like a …
A printer, a computer, and a webcam. Going back to basics requires a little technology. …
Against the extinction of printed books, the only way is making them dfferent and really …
Community-driven art. Can the act of painting make a real difference in the world? Jeroen …
Afterlife, or the the life of abandoned places. Documented with black & white photography, each …
A sketchbook, an archive, a dialogue. Four type designers share their ideas on the web, …
In our digital age, outdated systems of communication have become useless and inaccessibile. Starting from …
Earthy or daring? Eager or tranquil? Cheerful or captivating? In Brussels, Pantone Hotel promises to …
Away from the buzzing sound of vuvuzelas, here’s an alternative way for supporting the World …
Paved surfaces form the arteries of the modern world, tempering our innate proclivity for exploration …
Sea voyages, inland expeditions, and space travel. Dan McPharlin is an explorer of distant worlds, …
A sublime language, refined and yet universal. The year 1810 gave birth to Fréderic Chopin, …
A subltle dialogue between history and contemporaneity. Surrounded by solid walls, transparent volumes and floating …
Empty rooms, crumbling walls, suspended objects. Michael Eastman explores Cuba’s most decadent soul, the ghost …
A black and white fusion of food and design. Forget traditional recipe books: floating somewhere …
New York City, 1941. The streets and faces of the Big Apple break free from …
Destroy the system from within? An infallible strategy for moderate revolutions. Kenyon Yeh buys furniture …
Twenty-six letters on a human scale: shiny, black and graphically flawless. Not giant pieces of …
Packing tape, Plexiglas and light. From different gradations of shade, discernible faces emerge, and an …
Milan is many different cities in one. The urban landscape and its continual metamorphoses become …
Surprise encounters: in the former East Berlin, the design hotel interbreeds with the hostel and …
Old gym equipment. Rubber and leather off-cuts that carry the memory of a forgotten world. …
Ecology and design applied to daily life: in Korea, Gongjang manufactures pencils made entirely from …
Glass and titanium arching over the water. Paul Andreu leaves a clear and indelible mark …
Slowear meets Liberty, the historic London department store, renowned since 1875 for its creativity and …
A good eye and a steady hand: that’s what you should expect from your barber. …
Old school and avant-garde: the work of Safet Zec has two souls: one safe and …
Oriental-style minimalism. Black and white, light and shade, openings and closures, substance and transparency: the …
Two colours, two words, two ideas. Pick One is a subtle provocation that reduces the …
Jumpology, or the art of jumping: an informal, liberating and revealing act. Fifty years ago, …
Real titles, ideal combinations. Jane Mount imagines entire shelves of books, depicting them with graphic …
Gentleness and severity. Inspired by the purest essence of Fifties design, Jeff Muhs shapes precious …
Better city, better life: looking towards a more sustainable future, Expo 2010 Shanghai finally opens. …
A metropolis compressed into words, carved by hand, one letter at a time, into huge …
Chromatic imitations. Landscapes, architectural details, simple but eye-catching patterns from the natural and man-made worlds: …
Energy autonomy: sustainable architecture aims for independence of resources and finds its first good example …
With record players consigned to history, vinyl looked destined for oblivion. But its old crackles …
Fluidity, fusion and transparency: a symbolic dialogue between familiar landscapes and emerging architecture. The Grand …
Four simple questions to determine what type you are. Which font do your deepest tendencies …
Tackling lack of space with ingenuity and creativity is one way for an architect to …
Matera. In the city of stone, rediscover a primordial way of living: the historic “sassi” …
The mathematics of creativity: three-dimensional images generated by complex calculations. Tom Beddard gives form and …
How to achieve the impossible: to combat the extinction of glorious Polaroid film, a courageous …
To bring nineteenth century typefaces back to life in an impressive contemporary project: inspired by …
100 years of design, from early twentieth century Vienna to the present day: Kubus celebrates …
Culture will save us. Not only from ignorance, but also from the hectic pace of …
When applied to real life, the condensed language of user menus takes on a surprisingly …
Drawing on the age-old Milanese tradition of twinned buildings, the new face of the Fondazione …
Distant, isolated and difficult to get to. In other words, exclusive. Remota is a modern …
Flexible, tough, impossible to duplicate. W-eye launches the first “indoor” spectacles, the result of the …
In good art, nothing is superfluous. Its beauty permeates us even in its most barest, …
In architecture, abandoning the usual forms can lead to extraordinary results, especially if the source …
Fleeting, transitory objects, little samples of graphic design and illustration, matchboxes are souvenirs of past …
No special effects, but lots of fragments from a shared fictional world. The first film …
A year’s worth of creativity of the highest order. Collated in a single volume, D&AD …
Aesthetic coherence, energy efficiency and minimal impact on the landscape. Pursuing these sacrosanct goals, Make …
Tucked away, discreetly out of sight, Derrière is a well-designed mirage: a small restaurant set …
Landscapes that are reduced to their essentials, yet still draw us in: Jon Klassen is …
Unconventional materials. Baptiste Debombourg abandons paper and pencil in favour of staples and white walls, …
Open, adjoining, connecting spaces. The Rolex Learning Centre is a subtle architectural exercise on the …
January 2010. Matt. W. Moore arrives in Paris with a simple plan: to convert an …
Typography Diary, or the art of transforming everything into a source of typographical inspiration. Shapes …
A little Tate Modern. Inside a former hydroelectric power station, the latest innovations in English …
The architecture of contrasts: hot and cold, wood and metal, curves and straight lines. The …
Snapshots capture the moment. But reality eludes the single point of view, demanding a more …
Where words fail, technology reconstructs the memory of a place. Sounds, images and insights: a …
Real art and imagined art: the comparison arises from the alternation of emptiness and substance, …
A light touch, but a bold and linear one: the ironic becomes iconic without fuss …
A semblance of fragility. Behind a delicate and ethereal appearance, unexpected resources may lurk. The …
Environmentally friendly design thrives on simple ingredients: basic shapes, extreme modularity and recyclable materials, like …
Shimmering forms, unsettled horizons, changing perspectives. Vanishing Point is a whirlwind tour through a multidimensional …
Stand up for your right to sit down. With urban public spaces become less welcoming, …
Creative solutions. To combat the problem of electronic debris, Matt Ritchie proposes a series of …
Overcome by a strong emotion due to a letterhead design. This is the definition supplied …
A surreal landscape depicted in an old black and white movie: the world according to …
Choosing a typeface is not just about aesthetics: when it comes to printing, every font …
Proportions uncertain, position unknown, orientation nonexistent. David Maisel invites us to lose ourselves among clean …
Posthumous revelations. An enthusiast buys some old negatives at an antiques auction, develops them and …
The opening of a novel is a threshold, inviting us in. It can emerge slowly …
Backpack or shoulder bag? Trolley case or suitcase? For travel to be a comfortable endeavour, …
Bold curves of wood and cement provide the shade in which rare, sought-after labels come …
Beauty and flavour, a synaesthesia of form and substance. Michel Rolland draws on Andalusian tradition …
Sensory deception. The virtual becomes more real than reality itself, the virtuosity of computer graphics …
Eliminate the non-essential: a symbolic act that helps the environment. In the heart of London, …
Typographic fragments from old Berlin: lettering, notices and signs. Valuable exhibits from an urban landscape. …
Objects from the past. Exhibits from a distant era, wrapped in antique attire. A vida …
Squares, circles and triangles: the geometry of a universal language. The complexity of the world …
Reality can reveal itself in an ensemble or through individual features. Todd Richardson opts to …
Anatomy of a text: the scalpel cuts right to the heart, a lapidary verse taken …
The idea is a simple one: the elegance of a typed character translated into three …
Kiltro, in Chilean dialect, means “crossbreed”. A perfect definition for the home designed by Supersudaka, …
Steampunk, or the art of transporting future technologies to the past: that’s the inspiration behind …
Sleep suspended, exposed, overlooking the world. Between the city and the room lies only an …
Creative thinking is worth far more than precious ingredients, as all great chefs know. Add …
Musical preferences and states of mind: an ambivalent, even dangerous relationship, so handle with care. …
See the world from on high, hidden among the foliage. Baumraum satisfies the childish desire …
Glass and steel launched towards the sky: Jean Nouvel is the name behind the MOMA’s …