PUBLISHED 16 Sep 2011 - 9:54pm
Murray Moss – founder and co-owner of Moss, New York – has curated a varied and “quiet” exhibition throughout the V&A, unveiling and exploring 3D printing techniques and their place in our industrial landscape.
These fascinating objects, created in one piece using digital techniques, sit alongside some of the oldest and most significant art and design in the world. This is a purposeful juxtaposition, moving away from presenting these pieces in a single space.
“One of the reasons I wanted to present [the exhibition] quietly, as opposed to saying ‘Welcome to the world of 3D... More
PUBLISHED 16 Sep 2011 - 9:18pm
The official start of the London Design Festival may not be until this Saturday 17 September, but there are already loads of events, exhibitions and installations to see across the city.
At the first full day of the Inside Playful Minds exhibition at The Arts Gallery we were lucky enough to get a guided tour from Artist and Designer, Damon Millar.
Damon, whose background is in both Art and designing “bits of racing cars for formula one teams”, explains the motivation behind the exhibition.
“A lot of technology is selfish,” he says. “Although mobile phones, for example, bring people virtually... More
PUBLISHED 27 Jan 2011 - 1:05pm
Last weekend the Zabludowicz Collection accommodated the first London edition of PA/PER VIEW, an art book fair, organised in association with the Belgian book investigation platform MER. Paper Kunsthalle. An international selection of about 30 independent art book publishers and shops gathered in the back room of the building from Saturday 22 to Sunday 23 January 2011. The representatives, sitting behind their bookstalls, were eager to provide information about their precious objects. Visitors were received with a friendly hello and welcome to have a look at and read of the diverse... More
PUBLISHED 21 Oct 2010 - 12:01pm
This weekend is the last chance to see Design Research Unit 1942 - 72 at the Cubitt Gallery in North London, an exhibition about the practice that created the identity for British Rail, and as architects, worked on the 1951 Festival of Britain.
It's great to see this celebration of Britain's first modern group design practice – more so because the original ideas behind DRU are seem so relevant today. As Justin McGuirk pointed out in this recent article, the Design Research Unit was born of a previous age of austerity, and tackled that austerity with a sense of pull-together optimism... More
