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Lee Broom designs new bar for Selfridges
Product and interior designer Lee Broom has been commissioned by Selfridges in London to design an innovative new cocktail bar to mark the first anniversary of the store’s Men’s Shoe Galleries. Opening this month it is a first in a retail environment.
Canterbury student James young wins award from ReardonSmith
The winner of the 2013 Sleep ReardonSmith Student Award is James Young, a fourth-year student studying for his Masters in Architecture at the Canterbury School of Architecture.
Animal and insect shaped chairs by Maximo Riera
Maximo 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...
Leading architects come together for new design event The Fix
FX collaborated with Gensler, Livewire and Cole Consulting to bring together property, retail and design with this new initiative, The Fix. At its launch, we focused on the pop-up and the implications for the retail, hotel and the hospitality, and property sectors. How creative are pop-ups — and how is money made from them? Toby Maxwell reports
Philip Castle on designing iconic film posters for Stanley Kubrick
Working 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
In a digitally connected world, are we losing touch with reality?
Is a future of constant and frenetic connectivity inevitable? Veronica Simpson thinks designers need to step back from the digital tsunami to ensure that the joys of analogue experience aren’t swept away completely
Hella Jongerius joins Danskina as design director
One of Holland's most highly regarded designers, Jongerius promises to take the textile company in a new direction
Devil in the detail: James Cauty's dystopia in miniature
With 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
Last chance to fly to NeoCon with fly Forbo
Designers new and established have just a matter of days to enter the latest Fly Forbo design competition, with a trip for two to Chicago, accommodation and entry into NeoCon 2014 as top prize.
MET Studio will make sludge look good...
MET Studio has been commissioned as the lead exhibition designer for a 2,000 sq m environmental education centre to be housed within a new sludge treatment facility in the Tuen Mun district of Hong Kong. When completed it will be the world’s largest of its kind.
