Jessica Hische Letterpress

Jessica Hische has just unveiled her new letterpressed business cards, a first-rate combination of printing and design. Jessica Hische has just unveiled her new letterpressed business cards, a first-rate combination of printing and design. Jessica has... 

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April Diary

Diary editor Johanna Agerman | johanna@icon-magazine.co.uk MILAN FURNITURE FAIR 22-27 APRIL The Milan furniture fair is a bit like an endurance test for the design community. How much design can you take in and how much networking can you do on as little... 

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decidedly low-tech

as technology evolves, new innovations are constantly replacing old ones. this cycle is repeated over and over until old technologies are almost completely forgotten. whether this is good or bad is really in the eyes of the beholder, but the pace of... 

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Fire-Breathing Giant Robot Invades Tokyo

Towering 7.2m above the crowd, Giant Torayan the gigantic mechanical (baby!) sculpture created by Japanese artist Kenji Yanobe, was performing as part of Roppongi Art Night at the weekend – singing, dancing, and… breathing fire: During the... 

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House Industries

• Andy Cruz of House Industries is interviewed by Grain Edit. • Andy Cruz of House Industries is interviewed by Grain Edit. Original post: House Industries ... 

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commonplacebook reloaded

Durante mi encierro, hubo dos acontecimientos nacidos en el oscuro universo de los pensamientos de Lovecraft que me pasaron desapercibidos, no por falta de interes sino por mi propia ceguera. El primero fue que Juan Santapau dibujó toda una historia... 

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arquitextonica: bio-logicas roofing proposal, bilbao

lourdes bueno and miguel villegas of the spanish architect studio arquitextonica have sent us images of their winning proposal for the roofing of dos de mayo street in bilbao la vieja, bilbao. entitled ‘bio-logicas’ the design is ruled by... 

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activist design : fake financial times were handed out by protest movement

the spoof financial times on friday march 27th, thousands of copies of a spoof version of the financial times were distributed by climate change campaigners, as the UK prime minister, gordon brown, prepares to host next week’s G20 summit in london.... 

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‘hella jongerius – contemporary archetypes’ at galerie kreo

‘frog’ table by hella jongerius , 2009 (limited edition of 8 numbered and signed pieces) walnut wood and blue transparent enamel image © fabrice gousset, courtesy galerie kreo the exhibition ‘hella jongerius – contemporary archetypes’... 

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Rencontre avec Jean Widmer

Dans le cadre des ateliers de rencontres, l’ENSAD accueille exceptionnellement Jean Widmer, le jeudi 2 Avril 2009. Dans le cadre des ateliers de rencontres, l’ENSAD accueille exceptionnellement Jean Widmer, le jeudi 2 Avril 2009. View post: Rencontre... 

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