The penny has finally dropped…fully installed and growing by the minute, this delightfully interactive sculpture by Paul Cocksedge Studio attracts people like a magnet, literally. For every copper donated by the public, a pound will be donated by Orange to Barnardo’s.
Categories: Art, Communication, Design, Event, Festival, London Design Festival, Street art and performance
Matilda unearths the best in Australian and New Zealand product design as yet unseen in Europe. Conceived by the wonderful Jenni Carbins, it will ensure that 13 of Australia’s leading designers will gain the international recognition they deserve. It marks the beginning of an ongoing commercial proposition for the designers to have permanent commercial representation […]
Categories: Australian design, Design, Festival
Its official. Thomas Heatherwick has been awarded the London Design Medal! I can’t think of a more deserving winner. He’s talented, pushes boundaries like few of his generation and a thoroughly nice bloke to boot! Thomas Heatherwick commented: “It’s a huge honour and a great surprise to be given the London Design Medal. London is […]
Categories: Design, Festival, London Design Festival
The showcase installation in the Madejski Garden at the V&A (above). Clever to watch – Zieta has welded sheet metal, sealed the edges then pumped water, then air into the gap between the sheets to force the robot-produced shape into a custom and perfectly shaped 3D object. Here you can see him using […]
Categories: Design, Festival, London Design Festival, London Landmark
The capital is revving up for this year’s festival, launching this Saturday. There are the usual suspects, from 100%design to TENT, but this year there seems to be a discernible wobble. With the future of the Design Council under threat and Neville Brody’s Anti-Design Festival creating a rumble, it will be interesting to see how […]
Categories: Architecture, Design, Event, Festival, London Design Festival
Less Mouth, More Trousers[1] As Emily Dickinson famously wrote ‘being a poet is all. Being known as a poet is nothing.’ Can the same be said about designers? Today you can’t pick up a fork, sit on a seat, switch on a light, open a bottle or pick your nose without someone’s name being attached […]
Categories: Articles, Design, Journalism, Writing • Tags: journalism, writing
Design and business educators and professionals share new ideas and approaches around tackling the pressing issues of today. Produced by the Billy Blue School of Design, contributors include Dean Roger Martin, Alice Rawsthorn, Vince Frost and er, me. It will be launched at Sydney Design and is available in bookshops now. Please contact Leanne Rule […]
Categories: Articles, Design, Design thinking, Journalism, Writing
Chris Bangle. Ex-Design Director of BMW. What a thinker. Listening to him is a bit like holding your breath underwater in the bath; it tends to focus you on just one thing. In this case, the power to think differently about how we move about on our planet, to escape the rigid confines of your […]
Categories: Australian design, Design, Engineering, Festival