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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
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Devil in the detail: James Cauty's dystopia in miniature
10 January 2014With the help of 5,000 police officers and a clutch of journalists, artist James Cauty has created the aftermath of riot and mayhem, complete with a burning church, collapsed overpass and, er, a cow in a block of flats... All the figures are miniatures but, far from the rural idyll of old model villages, Cauty’s diorama makes a political statement about societal freedom and state control. After opening under the arches at Hoxton Station, Aftermath Dislocation Principle Parts I & II can are on show at Piet Hein Eek, Eindhoven until 15 March
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Author Nathan Silver responds to review of his book Adhocism
8 January 2014Co-author, along with Charles Jencks, of the recently reissued book Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation criticises review by Thomas Wensing, published in issue 330 of Blueprint, calling it 'a catalogue of false suppositions'.
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Venice Architecture Biennale 10 best pavilions
5 January 2014The Blueprint editorial team chooses 10 of the best pavilions at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale
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FAT to disband after 23 years
16 December 2013After 23 years of practice, on December 16 2014, the influential and iconoclastic London-based office of FAT (Fashion, Architecture, Taste) has announced its decision to disband in 2014. In Blueprint’s 30th anniversary issue (Sept/Oct 2013) we revisited the first time FAT appeared on our cover, as the (very) young turks of 1997. We republish founding partner Sam Jacobs’ reflections on FAT — and architecture — then and now.
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Interview: graphic design legend Peter Saville talks to Liz Farrelly
13 December 2013Graphic designer doyen Peter Saville was presented with the London Design Festival's Medal, the first creative to receive it. Blueprint talks to the man about his career and ethos and also asks some of his contemporaries, colleagues and acolytes to choose their favourite piece of Saville's work
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Erik Spiekermann on the possible perils of life online
13 December 2013It may be smart to set the temperature of your house remotely and food shop online, but with the security services looking at everything we do, turning on heat and lights at odd hours, ordering some sort of foods, or reading stuff in foreign languages may finish up with you being accused of being a terrorist... Erik Spiekermann set up MetaDesign and FontShop, and is a teacher, author, designer and partner at Edenspiekermann
