Fresh Finnish Design Exhibition at the Pendulum Gallery

Pendulum Gallery | School of Cool - Fresh Finnish Design | APR 10 ---------------------------------------------------------------- School of Cool - Fresh Finnish Design April 10-28, 2006 at the Pendulum Gallery HSBC Building, 885 Georgia Street, Vancouver BC Canada Finnish...

milan furniture fair 2006 preview

some basic information for the 2006 Milan furniture fair.

25 Best Free Quality Fonts

"Most fonts presented below are absolutely license-free which means that you can use them for both private, personal and commercial purposes without any limitations whatsoever. Nevertheless, the disclaimers are...

Brad Pitt Talks Architecture on PBS

"LOS ANGELES Mar 28, 2006 (AP)— Brad Pitt is bringing his love of architecture to the public public television, that is. Pitt will narrate "Design: e2," a series about environmentally friendly...

Terence Riley on His Years as MoMA's Design Guru

Terence Riley never got to move into his new MoMA office. When he left the museum on March 15 to become director of the Miami Art Museum—where he’ll oversee the construction of a brand-new $200 million building—his Department of Architecture and Design was...

Cornwall's 21st Century Wreckers...

Cornwall’s 21st Century WreckersAn exploration of the origins and causes of the unsustainable pressures piling up on Cornwall, the 5th Celtic nation of the British Isles. Caught up in its mission to insinuate...

Indy Film Festival - March 16-18

"The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers presents the 14th annual $100 Film Festival March 16-18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Stanford Perrott Theatre at the Alberta College of Art & Design. For tickets and info, call 205-4747 or visit www.csif.org."

Shaping Things: More on the Internet of Things from Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling's talk at the O'Reilly Media Emerging Technology Conference 2006.  Closely related to this story. "Who says sci-fi writers can't predict the future? My topic tonight is Internet of...

Cornwall's 21st Century Wreckers ?

BBC Radio Cornwall is trying to lure listeners to ‘ Design a Garden of Cornwall ‘ for display on a waste tip. This waste tip is better suited for a programme entitled ' How to design a Flood Hazard of Cornwall...

A Newer Orleans - Six Proposals

from Archinect: Artforum has just published, in its March issue, a large portfolio featuring architectural responses to the disaster wrought by Hurricane Katrina. The proposals were solicited from MVRDV, Huff +...

Miuccia Prada: 'The mistress of us all'

good IHT article on "former communist" Miuccia Prada - link Christian Dior defined Cristóbal Balenciaga, the ultimate designer's designer as "the master of us all." Miuccia Prada, who shows her Miu Miu collection for the first time in Paris this week, can rightly...

A Manifesto for Networked Objects, or why THINGS matter

This is a great paper by Julian Bleecker titled "A Manifesto for Networked Objects".  The paper describes the coming "Internet of Things" and introduces several concepts including "blogjects" - objects that blog: "The internet of...

Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture

11-12 March 2006 Utrecht: Interaction is the Crystalpunk Drug A "Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture" event Oudenoord 275, Utrecht Essentially it was William Butler Yeats who defined soft architecture as early as 1888 when he wrote: "Behind the visible are chains...

The Edge of Europe: New Architecture in Spain

A new show at MOMA documents recent architecture in Spain, which has in the last decade become an acknowledged center of design innovation and excellence.On-Site: New Architecture in Spain ...

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