Online creative platform, It’s Nice That is holding a one-day symposium at the Barbican in December to showcase inspirational and groundbreaking ideas and projects from 2011, and explore how they will shape the future.
In Progress will feature an impressive programme of talks, insight and presentations from influential speakers, and industry specialists including London Design Festival creator, Sir John Sorrell, Tom
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What initially began as a group of picketers in the financial district of New York City - a leaderless mini-movement opposing against corporate greed, and questing for a more democratic government less influenced by the financial sector - Occupy Wall Street has more recently spread across the Atlantic to London, with over three-hundred protestors now in camp at the
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New York director Gary Huswit has released Urbanized, a fascinating documentary that explores the design of our major global cities and the future of our changing urban landscapes.
Urbanized is the third in a trilogy of films that follows the cult Helvetica (2007) a film about the Swedish typeface, and Objectified (2009), a film on the topic of industrial design.
With over
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To mark their 20th anniversary, Dazed and Confused magazine has released a new book, Making It Up As We Go Along, which travels along a visual journey, showcasing the groundbreaking editorial and photography content that has graced the pages of London’s most coveted, contemporary style and culture magazine for the last two decades.
Published by Rizzoli, the content has been edited
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To mark Grayson Perry’s recently opened exhibition at The British Museum, The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, in which he has curated an exhibition of new works alongside objects made by unknown men and women throughout history, Louis Vuitton has commissioned the Turner prize winning artist to create a trunk and installation for their flagship store, Bond Street Masion.
The installation
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Transnatural, an Amsterdam based design agency and academy, seeks to explore the crossover between nature, technology, design and experience through art, technology and scientific innovation, and has curated a collection of functional design products that enable humans, nature and technology to work in synergy without harming each other or damaging the planet, entitled Balancing Nature & Technology.
In conjunction with the collection,
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This Halloween, experimental food enthusiasts The Robin Collective and Animal Vegetable Mineral are collaborating for a unique and whimsically macabre tea party event at the Tour de Force Theatre in Hackney, East London.
The afternoon banquet will comprise a menu of experimental and traditional, tea-inspired fare, including a cucumber sandwich punch and Victoria sponge that guests will be able to inhale,
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During Beijing Design Week earlier this month, diners at Wonderwater Café were presented with a menu that tracked the water footprint of popular Chinese dishes.
The how much water do you eat? menu comprised delightful infographics that calculated the amount of water used to create Far Eastern fare at the existing Tian Hai restaurant – situated in the Xuanwu District of
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Last night we had the great pleasure of attending the Red Bull Music Academy’s event on the London Eye, Revolutions In Sound, which closed Red Bull’s world tour including previous stop-offs in Berlin, Toronto, New York and Sao Paulo.
The event, ‘the world’s first music festival in the sky’, featured an impressive roster of artists who performed a live DJ set
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EAT! Design with Food, a new publication by Hamburg based design agency EIGA, celebrates the increasingly prevalent relationship between food, design and art.
54 designers, architects and artists have contributed a series of illustrations and photographs of sculptural marvels and food artwork, to sit alongside a calendar-like week-by-week helping of food happenings, art installations, architectural projects, products and brand design concerned
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