Design
With the mounting hype surrounding 3-D printing, LED lights, high-tech irony, and newly invented synthetics, contemporary design’s interest lately seems to be in the futuristic developments of the 21st century; at the moment, a hacked MakerBot is churning...
Over the course of twenty years, the influential French graphic-design duo of M/M (Paris) have all but invented a language of their own, a visual language, starting with their quirky alphabets made from pieces of distorted images. But the high-concept...
DUBAI — A buoyant mood pervaded the Sunday night opening of Design Days Dubai, now in its second outing and already claiming the title as the world’s largest contemporary design fair with 29 exhibiting galleries. The gathering was in fact merely the...
Doctors on Long Island performed an unprecedented surgery earlier this month: They replaced 75 percent of a man’s skull with a new 3-D printed thermoplastic material shaped specifically for his head, the first-ever 3-D printed skull implant in the United...
It’s difficult to distill a singular theme from the wildly diverse exhibits of “Applied Designs,” the latest Museum of Modern Art show organized by senior architecture and design curator Paola Antonelli. Visitors, of course, will flock to play the 14 recently...
Looking like a long, thin knitted white scarf that is unraveling, “Gregor” by Patrick Frey is actually a clever wall calendar that features the days of the year from 1st January at the bottom to 31st December at the top. As the hours pass, the...
RIKUZENTAKA – As the second anniversary of the devastating March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami passes, one of the icons of Japan’s resilience is about to be unveiled in sculpture form.Rikuzentaka, a town of 23,000 known for oyster farming, was one of the...
Imagine being on vacation on a cold winter’s day and arriving at your hotel, using a smartphone to unlock your door, and finding your room toasty and warm, heated exactly to your taste. This futuristic vision is a reality at Seoul’s Hotel Skypark Central,...
SEOUL — Is it a gallery, antique bookstore, or design showroom? Hyundai Card Design Library manages to be all of these things at once, and the ambitious new space — curiously yet most appropriately located in Bukchon (old Seoul) — has emerged as a most...
The Library of Congress, the mammoth intellectual institution created to support Congress’s fulfillment of its constitutional duties and “further the progress of knowledge,” made an interesting acquisition in February: “Emoji Dick,” New York-based...
