Today is International Women’s Day… There will, no doubt, be plenty of articles written about the working and home lives of women, and how inequalities and prejudices are still all too common. How research shows that success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women (when a man is successful, he […]
Categories: Architecture, Design, Writing • Tags: architecture, design, writing
The London Design Festival gets bigger and bigger each year. There were over 300 individual events this year – enough to give you pavement paralysis hopping from one foot to the other, unsure where to turn next. For the first time since the festival’s inception though, I really felt like it paid to be far […]
Categories: Art, Design, Event, Festival, Journalism, London Design Festival, Writing
Lucky enough to attend the opening of this new terminal by Studio Fuksas in Shenzhen, China, I can honestly say that the overall effect was DAZZLING.
Categories: Architecture, Design
Delightfully topsy-turvy. What else can I say…? Find it at 20 Blackfriars Rd, London. It’s not easy to miss!
Categories: Architecture, Art, Design
‘Endless Stair‘ by dRMM - this year’s landmark installation for the London Design Festival. Caught here under construction. Very Escher. Very beautiful. Hope it holds up under this terrible weather!
Categories: Art, Design, Festival, London Design Festival • Tags: #LDF2013, architecture, design, festival
The perfect pewter penguin! Cast out of cuttlefish at Arup’s best Penguin Pool event yet. Material scientist Mark and his team at the pioneering Institute of Making thoroughly entertained us all with their tales of materials, now and in the future. Imagine a time when structures will heal themselves? Bridges won’t crack, power stations won’t […]
Categories: Design, Engineering, Event
Over the Bass Strait, lies Australia’s answer to the Tate Modern. Only darker, dirtier and joyously more disconcerting. A unique museum experience, its owner the multi-millionaire and local man David Walsh has decided to share his private collection of art for all to see.
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As always, there is a cornucopia of talks, events, exhibitions, trade shows and parties spread across town – more conservative in the west and a little more daring in the east. This year, 100%design feels much more like a trade show than the healthy mix of established and emerging, as has been customary in recent years.
Categories: Design, Festival, London Design Festival, Writing