Bruno Munari was an artist, intellectual, refined designer and teacher, with a love for lightness. He was sharp intelligent, elegant, congenial, irrepressible, creative, driven by experimentation and authentic eclecticism, moved by curiosity about things, for the world, for the people.
He used art as an original form of expression . Even before his graphics, design, pedagogy and publishing, art continuously guided his creative genius.
Sydney Design 2010 – Powerhouse Museum 31 July 2010 to Feb 2011 “Creating the look:…
The Design Academy of Eindhoven ( DAE ) alumni presented their graduation projects in Milan, Italy: at the Lambretto Art Project Building.
The ‘self’ in the exhibition title still first and foremost refers to the student. The Design Academy of Eindhoven is fully focused on the talents, preferences and fascinations of its students. For their graduation they have to initiate projects themselves, in which these come to the fore.
But when you look at those projects – about healthcare, open source production, new economic systems – they come across as pretty altruistic. Contemporary design is very much oriented toward the ‘unself’.’
From the 8th April to the 13th April, Milan was once more the undisputed “Capital of Design”.
Design pilgrims flocked to Milan for the world’s most important design fair and the unofficial start of the design season, hoping to catch onto global design trends, and get inspired by seeing what’s fresh, eye-catching, and cutting edge
What happens in the Milan Design Week goes beyond the presentation of new products that everybody can easily find online. Here at Design Week, the international brands expressed their energy for the world to see
The Salone del Mobile is the benchmark in the home-furnishing sector and an unique advertisement instrument for the Italian furniture industry.
Architect Tsuyoshi Tane of French design studio DGT, created a spectacular light and time installation for Citizen watches, at the Triennale Museum, that enveloped visitors in a soft gilded cloud.
“Sunlight is the terrestrial measurement of passing time”, explained Tsuyoshi Tane, “we took that as a starting point and developed the simple concept behind the Citizen installation.”
Louise Bourgeois, the French-born American artist who gained fame only late in a long career, when her psychologically charged abstract sculptures, drawings and prints had a galvanizing effect on younger artists, particularly women, died on Monday May 31st, 2009 at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.
The Saloni are carrying forward their cultural and didactic campaign with an event / show…
“The MOA basic form is built of innumerable crisscross spanned Lycra-yarns where every route is…
With a reputation for innovation and progressive design thinking over 40 years, Sue Carr was awarded Australia’s highest interior design accolade – the Interior Design Excellence Awards Gold Medal for Interior Design, in recognition for ” the distinguished contribution made by an Australian designer to design culture over the course of their career. ”
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Davide Groppi has chosen Milan Design Week 2016 to present “ WIRELESS IS MORE ” – the result of an ongoing search to express poetry and meaning through creative lighting.
The choice to apply wireless technology has allowed the development of creations that are closer to people and their specific needs, going beyond the limits imposed by electric wires.
The Benevolent Society is an independent, non-religious, non-profit organisation. Australia’s first charity, for nearly 200…