Design

THE RETROFIT REVOLUTION

Giovanna Dunmall — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:39:06 +0000

Giovanna Dunmall meets the architects who are saving money and reducing waste by breathing new life into old buildings ... read more »

THE SKY IS MINE

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:02:03 +0000

Around the world Kathryn Gustafson is feted as a leading landscape architect. But in Britain she is still the woman behind a much-derided memorial to Princess Diana. Michael Watts meets her ... read more »

WORLD'S SEXIEST BRAKES

Paul Markillie — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:50:02 +0000

SCREECH | May 31st 2008

Ferrari S. P. A.

Ferrari is putting carbon-ceramic brakes in all its cars. Paul Markillie goes from 160kph to zero in four seconds flat ...

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ALEXANDER VON VEGESACK FALLS IN LOVE WITH THINGS

Vendeline von Bredow — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:15:24 +0000

ADVENTURES WITH OBJECTS | April 7th 2008

Thonet

As the first-ever "World Design Capital", Turin is exhibiting Alexander von Vegesack's personal collection of industrial design objects. Vendeline von Bredow learns what makes the director of the Vitra Design Museum so keen on the things of everyday life ...

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UGLY BY DESIGN

Cliff Kuang — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:00:26 +0000

"PRETTY" FURNITURE? HOW QUAINT | January 9th 2008

Maarten Baas

What's with all the ugly new chairs? The cartoonish lamps? Cliff Kuang tries to explain why someone might spend tens of thousands of dollars on a coffee table that looks like a wad of nicotine gum ...

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THE TYPEFACE THAT ATE THE WORLD

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:52:59 +0000

SOMETIMES BOLD AND ALWAYS A LITTLE GROTESQUE

Evgeny Morozov catches up with "Helvetica", a documentary film about the history of the near-ubiquitous typeface, and finds it to be a persuasive story in miniature about the globalisation of visual culture ...

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