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Pop-up Bookstore: Foldaway

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Catherine Osborne | Comments

Categories: Events, Interior Design , Shopping

There are dozens of designer installations and events to check out in London during LFA2010, the capital city’s biannual festival of architecture that runs until July 4. But one pop-up shop that caught our book-loving eyes is Foldaway – a bookstore that’s made entirely out of recycled cardboard.

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Hug an Industrial Designer Today

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Anne Dickens | Comments

Categories: Product design, Graphic design, Events, Green design

Designers around the world have marked June 29 as World Industrial Design Day, with events organized by professional organizations and universities.

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Bikes We Like

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Tory Healy | Comments

Categories: Product design, Events

In case you didn't catch our feature on trends in bicycle design in AZURE'S July/August issue – or just want to see more designs for summer gallivanting – here are some terrific two-wheeled contraptions that are on the market this year.

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PS1's Young Architects Program Returns

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Anne Dickens | Comments

Categories: Architecture, Events

Pole Dance, a summer-themed installation by the New York firm SO-IL, is staged in the New York art institution's outdoor courtyard until September 6.

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G20 News: the Diamond and Schmitt-designed biowall

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Nina Boccia | Comments

Categories: Architecture, Events, Green design

The architecture firm's Living Wall Biofilter, commissioned for the G20 summit in Toronto this weekend, puts the city's new fake lake to shame.

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