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Art & retail: future directions
As art is being increasingly used – and to great effect – in high-street retail marketing as it takes its lead from top-end retailers, that section is always looking to up its own game and keep that extra step ahead. Wendy Marshall, interior designer at MRA Architecture and Interior Design, looks at new initiatives and projects that are works of art in their own right
Golden Boys: the art of Elmgreen & Dragset
Preferring to see themselves as artworld outsiders, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset began their collaboration in 1995 by subverting the idea of the white cube. Having recently done the same for the bellicose statues in Trafalgar Square they are now taking on the V&A and its collection, through the medium of a fictional architect’s apartment
Derek Phillips (1923-2013)
Derek Phillips FRIBA, FCIBSE, Honorary Fellow SLL, MILP, FIALD, M. Arch, B. Arch, MCD, who died in early November at the age of 90, was the UK’s very first independent lighting designer and a pioneer of the profession. Lighting designer and writer, Carl Gardner, looks back at his life and work
Noma Bar: Cut the Conflict
Israeli-born graphic artist focuses on war in his latest exhibition, which opens later this month at the Rook & Raven Gallery in London
Interview: Kengo Kuma - sharing the same shadows
The Japanese architect talks to Clare Farrow about growing up in a traditional wooden house in the suburbs of Tokyo, and the ways in which technology can reinforce the relationship between architecture and nature
Event: Concrete Day
Blueprint is the media partner for a day of concrete that includes a tour of the soon-to-be redeveloped Wallis, Gilbert & Partners Vinyl Factory (EMI pressed there for many years), a talk by William Hall author of Concrete (Phaidon) and a debate on whether concrete has had its day. Heritage consultant Tim Murphy offers a potted history of the site.
Lighting design loses Russell Lipscombe
Leading lighting designer Russell Lipscombe has died following a long illness. He had turned 49 just a few days before his death.
Interview: Neville Brody on the changing face of graphic design
From putting his visual stamp on youth culture through the 80s and 90s to designing survival strategies for the creative sector, Neville Brody is a man with an appetite for challenge. Veronica Simpson discusses typography and tactics with one of few remaining gurus of graphic design.
Not What, But How: creating socially sustainable architecture
A new exhibition at the Architectural Association showcases the achievements of WORKSHOP architecture.
'And Then This' at the Roca London Gallery
A new exhibition of glass and ceramic art and design work by graduates of the RCA goes on show at the Roca London Gallery later this month
