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In the Making at the Design Museum with Barber & Osgerby
On 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
Familiar theme: China's copycat cities
Quite 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
The past is an English country: the story of English Heritage
A 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
Street furniture: great design we often take for granted
Walking down the street we tend to take the lamp posts, traffic lights, bins and benches for granted. But who has designed them and do they have a deeper function than their apparent one? Helen Parton investigates
Photographing the Berlin wall – or where it once stood
Photographer 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
Street artists take over abandoned Paris nightclub
The 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
Libby Sellers chooses her must-see art and design events
Formerly 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 presentedthrough exhibitions and site-specific installations internationally. libbysellers.com
Say no to identikit restaurant and bar design
No one wants the ‘cookie cutter’ approach to restaurant and bar design, whether its a chain or an independent, giving designers great challenges and opportunities for creativity, says Mark Bithrey
Designer furniture inspired by drawing at Gallery Libby Sellers
London gallery presents Drawn From, a exhibition of objects with 'linear qualities'
Video: Alison Killing on the future of architecture
Competition-winning film by Alison Killing, who runs Rotterdam-based Killing Architects, discusses the shifting role of the architect and the challenges for young practices
