Events collective Platterform has created a rooftop market in South London that challenges and experiments with traditional notions of a food market by focusing on dining, learning and performance.
Officially opened yesterday, Skymarket comprises a kitchen, a bar, a deli, a performance space and a gallery for creating and exhibiting arts and crafts. In addition, Platterform is keen to celebrate and
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Big excitement for this Saturday, when our friends and neighbors at Protein will be hosting their inaugural “Block Party” to mark the end of summer.
A fun and free showcase of live music, food stalls, and incredible art and design talent that has become synonymous with the area of East London will take place in and around their Hewett Street home.
Mouthwatering
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Debuting at the upcoming Paris Motor Show this month, French car manufacturers Peugeot will unveil their concept diesel-hybrid car, “The Onyx”, demonstrating the brand’s new and forward thinking approach to interior and exterior vehicle design.
The Oynx was developed with Dutch designer Meike Meijer and design label Vij5, and employs their recycled NewspaperWood technique for its interior elements such as the
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As part of London Design Festival, which commences this week across the capital, our favorite multidisciplinary architecture and design practice The Decorators are transforming an area at the Design Junction space with a temporary “adult” cinema.
Built by hand, in a similar vein to their Ridley’s temporary dining project last autumn, the cinema will take inspiration from the decadent and elaborate
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This October, the 3D Printshow will arrive in London for its inaugural edition, exploring the future of 3-D print manufacturing.
Dominick by Sophie Kahn
Through a series of live events, demonstrations, workshops and seminars, future thinkers from the fields of technology, art, design, archeology and medicine will present live, printed works, comprising sculpture, animation, interactive art and jewelry design, even a performance
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We’re completely enamored with the design of this pop up radio station in Essex, which takes its inspiration from the first ever building to broadcast radio during the early 1920’s, 2 Emma Toc.
Situated in Writtle, Writtle Calling is very near to the original home of 2 Emma Toc: an ex-army hut in the fields surrounding Writtle village, which was built
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MTV has divulged plans to launch a new digital service in October that will focus on emerging fashion and music talent.
Delving in to the enormous archives of the influential music channel and youth-focused brand (which spans over 30 years), District MTV will present iconic music videos, performances and interviews that the MTV name is so synonymous with, exploring their influence on
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Continuing its support for the next generation of design talent, the Designers in Residence program at the Design Museum in London this year has asked its five lucky finalists to explore and respond to the brief: “Thrift”.
Answering this theme, Tokyo-born Yuri Suzuki enlisted the help of Technology Will Save Us to “re-design the communication system of electronics,” and create a narrative
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Dutch design collective Droog has finally unveiled its long awaited Hôtel Droog, which comprises only one bedroom.
Set in the historical heart of Amsterdam, the hotel occupies a former museum-style store that used to sell Droog-only designs. As with many of their innovative projects, Droog hopes to redefine the experience of hospitality by making all hotel amenities, including a Droog store,
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If you are in town this evening, we strongly urge you to head over to the International Picture House in London, who is hosting the book launch and accompanying exhibition of London-based photographer James Pearson-Howes for his book, British Folk.
The second installment in a trilogy, Pearson-Howes continues to explore the eccentric and obscure cultural traditions that continue to exist in the
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Here at Stylesight, we’ve become rather accustomed to seeing high tech window displays for shops and department stores that incorporate the latest in motion-tracking technology, human gesture recognition or cutting edge interactive graphics, for example. So it was refreshing to stumble across this beautiful project from Tokyo-based collective Drawing and Manual, who took a simpler and less digitized approach to
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Causing a stir of interest at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale this year is Russia’s interactive and futuristic Pavilion, unveiling plans for a new city of “science and technology” near to the capital, Moscow, in 2017.
Opened only on Wednesday, visitors have been flocking far and wide to marvel at the installation, which was curated by Sergei Tchoban and Sergey Kuznetsov
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The billionaire investor and founder of Paypal, Peter Thiel, recently backed Missouri–based start-up company, Modern Meadow in a venture that will see meat and leather produced using 3-D printers, without the rearing, slaughter or transport of animals.
The topic of in vitro meat was recently discussed in our Futurist report, Edible Innovations, in which we explored test-tube meat as a means
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The Victoria and Albert Museum in London recently played host to an interactive and ever-evolving, installation by Studio Tobias Klein.
The traveling exhibition, entitled Virtual Sunset, comprises images that have been submitted and uploaded by members of the public across the world: a project website, enables them to be geotagged with their location. During the V&A residence, these images were projected
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A number of emerging designers have been selected for the Design Museum's annual Designers in Residence program. Freyja Sewell, Harry Trimble and Oscar Medley-Whitfield, Lawrence Lek and Yuri Suzuki will explore ideas of economy and resourcefulness through objects, environments and experiences. The designers were given the brief "Thrift" and the resulting projects will be on display from 5 September 2012
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