[Janeil Engelstad] In ‘Voices From the Center’, an exhibition at Chicago gallery threewalls, emerging artists who came of age after the fall of the Berlin Wall reflect on communist and post-communist life, with wit and humor all their own.
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[Katerina Kyselica] I discovered this enchanting art book, full of little holes punched through the pages – stars that you can’t ever really count. Then I followed their White Rabbit and learned to dare to go further and find the unexpected. Artists Ludmila and Sylvian Favardin interconnect dreams with reality and open your eyes.
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[dob2010] Reiser + Umemoto has been awarded First Prize in the international competition for a new Port and Cruise Service Center in the city of Kaohsiung in southwestern Taiwan. Streamlined, elevated and highly efficient.
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[Katerina Kyselica] The 22nd annual exhibition of new furnishing, carpets, hip materials and accessories – ICFF 2010 – brought out almost 600 manufacturers and designers to showcase their products. They came from all over the world. If you didn’t get chance to walk the 145 thousand square feet of exhibit space along with the other [...]
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[by Joe Johnson] While the design of little Tata Nano doesn’t measure up with the swoopy curves of a Ferrari designed by Pininfarina, or the staid elegance of a Rolls Royce Phantom, it is its price that makes it a winner. The Tata Nano costs about as much to purchase new as a tune-up for [...]
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[by Katerina Kyselica] Dutch design represents the forefront of contemporary design with conceptual and experimental creations of Maarten Baas, studio Makkink & Bey, Hella Jongerius, or Joris Laarman. It is Laarman, however, who explores the boundaries of science in the pursuit of a new future for product design. In the Friedman Benda gallery, Laarman invites [...]
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