Design
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Janelle Zara
Is that the Jeff Koons “Balloon Dog,” drunk on its own hubris and house party jungle juice, traipsing around the aisles of Target’s dorm room collection? We can’t be sure, since it’s doing its best “Animal House” impression with a lampshade on...
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Coline Milliard, ARTINFO UK
London's tube network often feels saturated with images, most of them - apart from the odd Art on the Underground project - advertisements. There are pictures on the platforms, flashing screens along the escalators, and more ads than information maps in the...
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Janelle Zara
At age three, your children are too young to play the Modern Architecture Game or assemble the LEGO version of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater — all those tiny pieces make both of them starchitectural choking hazards. Age three is not too...
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ARTINFO UK
The Design Museum is making good progress in the fundraising campaign for its relocation to the former Commonwealth Institute in London's Kensington, scheduled for 2014. The Heritage Lottery Fund has granted the institution £4.65 m towards the move, adding to...
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ARTINFO UK
The Design Museum has announced the names of the 14 designers taking part in its "Digital Crystal: Swarovski" exhibition this September. The show will gather the likes of Ron Arad, Semiconductor, Fredrikson Stallard, Paul Cocksedge, Philippe Malouin, and...
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Janelle Zara
NEW YORK — Although we were all once children, somewhere between puberty and college most of us forgot what that experience was like. When MoMA's exhibition "Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000" opens July 29, it will serve as a reminder,...
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Julia Halperin
Every day, employees of the New Jersey Department for Environmental Protection walk across a concrete plaza on their way to work. Most have no idea that underneath their feet is a celebrated piece of landscape architecture. But that might change...
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ARTINFO UK
The Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond-designed Orbit Tower won't host the cauldron lit by the Olympic torch during the opening ceremony on Friday, business tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has told Associated Press. Mittal, whose company ArcelorMittal...
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Janelle Zara
Are you outfitting a dorm room? Do you have a fanatic crush on Michael Phelps? Did you lose your signed pair of Usain Bolt's running shorts and are in dire need of new memorobilia to take its place? If one or all of these is the case, the Internet has a...
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Janelle Zara
Architecture has taken the cinema to new heights in recent months, with the transformation of both the Hirshhorn Museum and Sydney Opera House into behemoth multi-media screens by architect Doug Aitken and German artist ...














