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Architecture and design events to look out for in 2015
Architecture and design events to look out for in 2015.
Miffy creator Dick Bruna - the art of reduction
The little cartoon Miffy is famous the world over, from her native Holland to Japan, where they build football pitch-sized illustrations of her in tulips. Her creator, the recently retired graphic illustrator Dick Bruna, has made a career of stripping characters down to their very essence.
Erik Spierkerman on artificial intelligence
AI is short for Artificial Intelligence, but don’t we need to define what is human intelligence first? Maybe AI should stand for Alien Intelligence; for a different way of looking at things rather than a computerised method of working things out, says Erik Spiekermann. Founder of MetaDesign and FontShop, Erik Spiekermann is a teacher, author, designer and partner at Edenspiekermann.
Jeff Kindleysides: 10 things I’ve learned about design
Jeff Kindleysides with David Checkland founded their retail design consultancy 35 years ago, working with major brands. He shares with us the top 10 lessons he’s learned about design along the way.
Opinion: Experiments into working practices yield surprising results
Visitors to Clerkenwell Design Week found themselves taking part in a series of scientific experiments aimed at examining at workspace design and management. The results point to seismic possibilities.
Care and craftsmanship in a home for the elderly
In her monthly column for FX, Brief Encounters, Veronica Simpson is moved by the care and craftsmanship devoted to a new building for some of society’s most frail and vulnerable members.
How designers are repurposing the Paris Metro's lost stations
In the autumn we went exploring the ‘lost’ Underground stations of London and looked at the exciting future they may be facing. Now we go across the Channel and to see how Paris is dealing with the unused elements of the Métro.
Women Fashion Power - review
Rebecca Swirsky reviews the Design Museum's exhibition Women Fashion Power, which is on until 26 April 2015.
A letter from 40,000ft - aboard Virgin Atlantic’s new Dreamliner
Johnny Tucker doesn’t strap in for the inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic’s latest aircraft — the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner — he’s too busy whooping it up at 40,000ft with London’s hippest DJs at the decks.
Peter Thonet - Profile
Peter Thonet is the latest in the family-run eponyomous German furniture design business, in family hands since it started in 1819. Now a brand ambassador, with younger family members well established at Thonet, Peter has welcomed new blood being introduced, with Thorsten Muck recently appointed as CEO. They talk to FX about all things Thonet.
