posted on December 29, 2008 by Rachel Pulfer | Comments[0]
Categories: Product design
Founded by Dutch textile artist extraordinaire Petra Blaisse, the design firm Inside Outside specializes in gorgeous textiles and prints that play up transition points between interiors and exteriors in unique ways. Inside Outside's most recent project, an art wall and funky stage curtain for a new auditorium in Enschede, the Netherlands, provides the auditorium with the architectural equivalent of a mot juste.
Posted on December 17, 2008 by Nina Boccia | Comments[0]
Categories: Architecture, Art, Events
>With its first-ever graffiti exhibit, the Royal Ontario Museum treads on new ground with Housepaint, Phase 2: Shelter. The large-scale show featuring 10 colourful canvas houses and five additional works, was developed by street artists themselves to represent the spontaneous, collaborative and social nature of graffiti.
Posted on December 16, 2008 by Elizabeth Pagliacolo | Comments[0]
Categories: Product design, Events
What's with all these magazines going into retail? Azure senior associate editor Elizabeth Pagliacolo investigates for the December edition of her trends column, The Next Big Thing
Why Blu Dot is Recession Proof
Posted on December 15, 2008 by Rachel Pulfer | Comments[0]
Categories: Product design, Events
In mid-December, Blu Dot, the Minneapolis furniture company that's been making minimalist modern American furniture for twelve years, opened its flagship store in SoHo. An insane move in a crumbling economy – or a stroke of genius? Read on for snaps from opening night, detail shots of the line's latest pieces, and insight from co-founder John Christakos on how to design, build and sell beautiful furniture in tough times.
Posted on December 10, 2008 by Nina Boccia | Comments[0]
Categories: Product design
Move over Philippe Starck. France’s newest it-designer – Benjamin Graindorge – is rising in the ranks of French design.
Francesco Rethinks the Skateboard
Posted on December 8, 2008 by Rachel Pulfer | Comments[0]
Categories: Product design
Francesco Sommacal has won the 2008 red dot: luminary design award for his funky "360" reworking of the skateboard.
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Set in a grassy field and surrounded by stands of hardwood, this retreat in northwestern Indiana brings a craft sensibility and a modern persuasion to its laid-back countryside surroundings.
By Edward Keegan
Photography by Christopher Barrett
This online exhibit is an interactive Web environment showcasing new digital works by Canadian ar...
This three-day symposium encourages architects and designers from all fields to share ideas r...
Artists, designers and filmmakers are invited to enter original digital content to be played back ...
IDS returns to showcase the latest in contemporary residential design. Guest speakers include ...
November 5, Argentine architect Ciro Najle; November 13, Landscape architect and Colum...