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  • October 2014

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    • Get your tickets for the Blueprint Awards

    • 07 October 2014

    Get your tickets to one of the year's most hotly anticipated architecture and design events

    One to Watch - Kreis Design

    • 06 October 2014

    Nikki Kreis now designs furniture, via hotel interiors and showrooms.

    Breaking Wave, John Lewis, York

    • 06 October 2014

    The Tubes are not deployed in the same way, but the piece Breaking Wave harks back to Dan Flavin in using industrial T8 fluorescent lamps as the main component.

    Starlight, Museum of the City of New York

    • 06 October 2014

    A Site-Specific light sculpture for the Museum of the City of New York, Starlight won a Merit award in the recent IALD International Lighting Design Awards. A massive statement for the imposing elliptical stairway at the heart of the historic interior, the uniform geometry of the spatial grid creates a moiré effect, producing intriguing optical effects according to the viewpoint.

    The Art of repetition: self expression in Communist-era Hungary

    • 06 October 2014

    They may have been subjected to the rigidity of the country’s Communist regime, but Hungarians living in post-war state housing nevertheless made the monotonous block dwellings individual and full of character through painting and decoration. Artist Katharina Roters has documented the phenomenon in a new book, out now.

    Designer File - Nicola Osborn

    • 06 October 2014

    Nicola Osborn, design director at MoreySmith, studied printed textiles and decorative arts and worked as a visual merchandiser before completing an interior design diploma. She shares 10 things she’s learned about design.

    Artist Grayson Perry to guest edit the New Statesman

    • 06 October 2014

    Turner Prize-winner and cultural commentator will guest-edit a special issue of the New Statesman, themed around the 'Great White Male'.

    Charity project makes art out of The Shard

    • 03 October 2014

    10x10, an annual event run by charity Article 25, asks architects, designers and artists to depict an area of London with the famous Shard skyscraper at its centre

  • September 2014

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    • Glass: A flexible material

    • 30 September 2014

    Chris Lefteri examines new strides in glass, the once fragile and brittle material that, through technology, offers both flexibility and transparency, and as such is guaranteeing its place in the future. Lefteri, a designer and author, has helped some of the world’s largest consumer brands formulate new strategies for effective materials integration during the design process.

    Blueprint Awards 2014 - the shortlist

    • 30 September 2014

    Here are the shortlists for the six project and product categories for the first-ever Blueprint Awards.