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Pull up to the Bumper: Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair turns 10!
7 June 2013Celebrating its first decade, the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair graces Brick Lane this weekend – for one day only, it allows ‘anyone with a few quid in their pocket’ to buy some of the edgiest British art for a song.
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Ai Weiwei at the 2013 Venice Biennale
4 June 2013Ai Weiwei continues to hold the world’s attention as he exhibits at the 55th Venice Biennale. Opened by none other than the artist’s own mother on May 28th, Weiwei’s installations at Venice will constitute his ‘only major new solo show in 2013’.
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LFA: Atlas of the Unbuilt World
4 June 2013As the London Festival of Architecture launches a month-long season celebrating the built environment, the ‘ATLAS OF THE UNBUILT WORLD’ illustrates perfectly its global and speculative outlook. With many other events developed with nations from around the world this one brings all together; however, the unifying factor of currently unbuilt status is shared by all projects, drawn from 40 countries.
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£2,000 Blueprint for the Future 3D printing competition
3 June 2013Blueprint magazine has joined forces with Additive Earth Systems and the Bartlett School of Architecture to launch an architecture and design competition using existing – and future – 3D printing technology. The best five pieces of work in each category will be printed and displayed at Design Junction during London Design Week in September and there is a £1,000 cash prize on offer for the best creation in each category.
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#BPFinalPush: Blueprint Student Competition
22 May 2013It’s that time of year when design students are rushing to mount degree shows, and completing their all important final projects, the magnum opus of their academic careers. If you’re a final year architecture, design or art student working towards D-Day, this one is for you.
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What future for creative education?
15 May 2013There is a storm brewing on the subject of design, art and architectural education. Earlier this year, a number of creative industry and cultural bodies claimed a victory as the government abandoned plans to push art and design in secondary education further into the margins than it already is . But just two months after that announcement, the curriculum has been criticised over its claims to prioritise ‘life skills’ over art and design disciplines.
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Govine Tendencies: Jeremy Till on GOV.UK’s Design of the Year
22 April 2013I was pretty depressed on the night of Wednesday 17th April 2013. I was sat by myself overlooking the beautiful but bleak Norfolk marshes with a sense of foreboding about what the BBC would bring me, the day after the day of Thatcher's funeral. And then my twitter feed flickered in to life.
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If You Build It, Will They Come?
22 April 2013Edwin Heathcote chaired a packed Architecture Foundation event to listen to architects’ presentations and discussion about new cultural projects. The big issue was, is there any steam left in the Bilbao Effect (the architectural extravaganza of Gehry’s Guggenheim transforming the city into a destination)?
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L’Afrique, c’est chic! Afrofuture at Milan
18 April 2013The most intriguing exhibitions during Milan’s Salone del Mobile are often to be found in unconventional spaces. Gritty, abandoned warehouses on shabby side streets provide backdrops for on-trend, temporary exhibitions. But for one of the most stimulating events of this year’s Salone to take at a department store seemed slightly unusual.
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Pae White: Too much night, again
12 April 2013Insomnia strings people out, but Californian artist Pae White used the condition to conceive a site-specific installation that strings out 48km of yarn across 4,725 eye screws, spanning the main gallery of the SLG. The result for her was therapy, and for the viewer a remarkable play on space and typography.
