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New looks for political parties
27 April 2015The UK's leading design consultancies put a modern spin on the polls with these innovative graphics.
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Screening our Future - Territory
27 April 2015London-based creative studio Territory has been grabbing our attention with future fictional worlds in films such as Ex Machina and Prometheus as well as graphic projects for Virgin Atlantic and the Guardian. From within their glass-box studio, the team explains how they’re blurring the lines between fiction, the virtual, the artificial and the real.
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Blueprint for the Future - James Woudhuysen
20 April 2015Yes, British retailers have too much space — they’re overfooted. But the rise of mobile shopping may see a revival of street-market haggling, and payment technologies will have to fit all comers. Expect more LEDs, the appearance of shop-floor robots, and more engrossing attractions, says James Woudhuysen in the first of a new, forward-looking Blueprint for the Future column. A co-founder of Blueprint, James Woudhuysen now speaks to and writes for an international audience on the future of innovation.
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The Bilbao effect: Britain plays to the gallery
20 April 2015The last thirty years have seen a boom in the building of large-scale art galleries in English regional centres, unprecedented since Victorian days. For former industrial towns, stripped of a purpose and revenue stream by the collapse of heavy industry, art was touted as the new salvation. Have our prestigious new galleries realised the dream of local regeneration?
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The Bilbao Effect - Hit and Myth
13 April 2015Statement buildings are so last century. As the architectural world awaits the winning scheme for the Guggenheim Helsinki, we reflect on the legacy — both intended and unintended — of the Guggenheim Bilbao. What underpins its extraordinary success as a cultural icon? And can Helsinki hope to replicate that formula?
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Curated Diary – Ross Urwin
13 April 2015Founding creative director of Infrastructure Ross Urwin picks his top events for the coming months
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Review - Stockholm Furniture Fair
13 April 2015Braving the snowy climes of midwinter Northern Europe, Cate St Hill found Stockholm to be a furniture fair full of emerging young talent, pared-back colours, clean lines and effortless cool
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Functional Sculpture: Coop Himmelb(l)au's European Central Bank in Frankfurt
6 April 2015Greece’s travails may threaten to deconstruct the euro, but its guardians now have a new headquarters designed by an original master of deconstructivism. In Frankfurt, Coop Himmelb(l)au has housed The European Central Bank in twisting towers, and intervened in a vast historic market hall.
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Review - Imm cologne and Maison&Objet Paris
6 April 2015Blueprint editor Johnny Tucker reports from imm cologne and Maison&Objet Paris
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The Art of Repetition - Chisel & Mouse
6 April 2015With nine new buildings recently added to their portfolio, including a model of the Bauhaus, Chisel & Mouse continue to do what they love.
