Curated Stories of the Contemporary Design World

Bregenzer Festspiele 2013 - Mozart's "Zauberflöte" - Highlights

Is as little design as possible - Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

In the late 70s italian architect, illustrator and industrial designer luigi serafini made a book, an encyclopedia of unknown, parallel world. it’s about 360-380 pages. it is written in an unknown language, using an unknown alphabet. it took him 30 month to complete that masterpiece that many might call “the strangest book on earth”. codex seraphinianus is divided to 11 chapters and two parts - first one is about nature and the second one is about people. btw five hundred years ago there was another book somewhat like that - voynich manuscript. take a look at some pages

From the outside, last year, Istanbul seemed just another ‘hyperambitious’ (Kortun’s word) art scene. And then the Gezi Park protests happened. Even before this, Kortun, as the director of research and programmes at multivenue nonprofit gallery SALT, was Turkish art’s de facto spokesperson to the rest of the world and prime instigator of this burgeoning contemporary art capital. A 2012 New York Times article quoted an unnamed artist as noting that ‘there was before and after Vasıf’. As unrest on Istanbul’s streets blew up, the former CSS Bard director gave commentary and insider analysis from the thick of it. He’s navigated the aftermath well too. SALT recently stepped in to help stage an Istanbul Biennial undermined by the city’s volatile political situation, a reminder that if anyone can mediate between Turkey’s politics and the need to sustain its progressive artworld, it’s Kortun

The RIBAJ120 Series: Blurring the Boundaries | Interview with Ivan Harbour

@07.05 my daddy looks so cool as always :) 

FUTURE SELF | Project Film

A little fashion didn't hurt me. It was fun while it lasted :-) #lfw #somersethouse #bfc #devilwearsprada

The iconic British 'Pop' artist Sir Peter Blake, creator of the Beatles’ famous Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, today launched Art Everywhere, the world’s largest art show, showcasing the nation's favourite British art on tens of thousands of poster sites across the UK for two weeks from 12 – 25 August 2013.   

How To Make Clouds Indoors: Nimbus By Berndnaut Smilde

From a floating cinema to a car park-cum-art gallery, some of Britain's most innovative (and people-friendly) design is seen in temporary projects in public spaces. Here's what's been popping up in London and beyond this summer