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Design Museum calls for Designers in Residence 2014
28 January 2014London’s Design Museum is calling for entries for this year’s Designers in Residence, for which Blueprint is a media partner.
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In the Making at the Design Museum with Barber & Osgerby
23 January 2014On at the Design Museum in London, Barber & Osgerby’s In The Making show explores the design duo’s fascination with the making process via unfinished objects, from pure high-tech silicon to how they put the swirl in a glass marble. Editor Johnny Tucker caught up with the design pair separately and asked them to question each other about the subject via Blueprint. You’re reading their answers at the same time as they are
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Familiar theme: China's copycat cities
22 January 2014Quite apart from the industrial production of fake branded products and counterfeits is the double phenomenon of China’s ‘copycat cities’. Often spectacularly unoccupied, these have not only borrowed heavily from townscapes around Europe, but also speak of an unique aspiration of self-invention
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The past is an English country: the story of English Heritage
22 January 2014A hundred years ago, worried about Britain’s built environment, the state established the listings system and gave itself the power to make a collection of buildings for ‘public benefit and education’. Today English Heritage, which continues that work, fights to preserve a modern heritage that its antecedents would be astounded by. We look at some of the more dramatic case histories of recent years
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Photographing the Berlin wall – or where it once stood
21 January 2014Photographer Paul Raftery revisits the site of the Berlin Wall and documents the huge changes that have taken place in the once divided city since the wall came down in 1989
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Street artists take over abandoned Paris nightclub
21 January 2014The dilapidated building that was home to the famous Parisian nightclub Les Bains Douches — once the haunt of international celebrities from film, music and art — is scheduled to be redeveloped as a boutique hotel. But not before 50 street artists took up an invitation to fill the space with spectacular, ephemeral works
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Libby Sellers chooses her must-see art and design events
20 January 2014Formerly senior curator of the Design Museum in London, Libby Sellers launched her eponymous venue in 2007 as a platform to support and promote progressive and critical design in a commercial gallery. Working with some of Europe’s most engaging designers — including Aldo Bakker, Formafantasma, Simon Hasan, Max Lamb, M/M (Paris) and Paola Petrobelli — the gallery has since produced unique and editioned works presented
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Video: Alison Killing on the future of architecture
16 January 2014Competition-winning film by Alison Killing, who runs Rotterdam-based Killing Architects, discusses the shifting role of the architect and the challenges for young practices
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Animal and insect shaped chairs by Maximo Riera
15 January 2014Maximo Riera has a singular vision when it comes to furniture. For some time now he has been mining the animal kingdom for inspiration for his anatomically accurate, yet surreally gothic, seating. Now he’s turned to the most numerous creatures on the planet, the insects, for his latest piece, the Beetle chair, based on the European Rhinoceros Beetle. He has already, of course, done an actual rhino...
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Philip Castle on designing iconic film posters for Stanley Kubrick
15 January 2014Working closely with film maestro Stanley Kubrick, who seemed to have a thing for hats, illustrator Philip Castle created the iconic posters for two of his key films, Full Metal Jacket and Clockwork Orange. Here, Castle opens some old boxes filled with treasures and shares the experience
