Fiona Rae exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery

Fiona Rae remembers acquiring a PowerBook in 1999 at about the same time that she met her husband and fellow artist Dan Perfect. Something of a tech boff, Perfect introduced Rae to the joys of Photoshop and the rest, you could say, is history. Fiona... 

Continue reading »

Salone Milan 2012: Rotterdam’s Piet Zwaart Institute Presents "Fabrikaat" at Ventura Lambrate

Like many of their fellow student exhibitors at Milan’s Ventura Lambrate district (and elsewhere , the eight Master of Interior Architecture & Retail Design candidates at Rotterdam’s Piet Zwaart Institute made a strong showing. The exhibition,... 

Continue reading »

Punk, the Queen and another Jubilee

In Britain, punk music has been strangely but inextricably linked with the monarchy since 1977 saw a Silver Jubilee and the Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen. 35 years on, this year’s Jubilee sees an exhibition from collector Toby Mott and... 

Continue reading »

Design Ethos: Spotlight on David Berman, Author of "Do Good," Proponent of Doing Good

David Berman was the keynote speaker for the first night of Design Ethos , and spoke to the importance of accountability in design and the ethics required to be a designer. David Berman was the keynote speaker for the first night of Design Ethos,... 

Continue reading »

Salone Milan 2012: La Chance, Jekyll and Hyde at MOST

La Chance made its debut at Tom Dixon’s MOST, a five-building design extravaganza anchored in Milan’s National Museum of Science and Technology. La Chance is a Paris-based furniture and lighting company founded by an architect and financier... 

Continue reading »

Announcing the 2012 D-Crit Conference: Eventually Everything

The coming weeks will see plenty of student exhibitions as graduating classes the world over complete their degrees and enter (or re-enter) the professional world. SVA’s Design Criticism is no exception, and in two short years, the annual conference... 

Continue reading »

Data in Real Life: Jonathan Harris at RISD

Photos by Jess Chen unless otherwise noted Illustration by Ray Hu “I remember talking to college classmates of mine, there was this general feeling of like anxiety and panic about what our lives were going to be like and the choices we were going... 

Continue reading »

Designing type systems

Peter Biľak I remember a conversation from back in my student days where my typophile friends and I debated what the ultimate typeface of the twentieth century was, a typeface that summed up all of the era’s advancements and knowledge into a coherent... 

Continue reading »

DESIGN AWARDS DEADLINE: Tuesday 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific

The regular deadline for the Core77 Design Awards ends Tuesday April 10 at 9pm Eastern Time (6pm Pacific Time) . Put your hard work, ideas and passion in front of our incredible multidisciplinary group of jurors from around the world. The regular... 

Continue reading »

2012 Core77 Design Awards: 36 HOURS Left to Enter!

We’re 36 HOURS out from the deadline for the Core77 Design Awards so get cracking on those entries. You’ll be putting your hard work, ideas and passion in front of an incredible multidisciplinary group of jurors from around the world. All... 

Continue reading »