Design Cities 2019: Buenos Aires, Argentina
A local collective wants to tap into the megacity’s underutilized and overlooked spaces.
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Design Cities 2019: Dakar, Senegal
The Dakar Next initiative hopes to change how design and artisanship are valued in Senegal.
Design Cities 2019: Valencia, Spain
A Valencia studio’s products draw upon the region’s cross-disciplinary creative networks.
Metropolis Magazine's Top Design Cities of 2019
From Algiers to Tulsa, Buenos Aires, and beyond, these locales are where global trends and local influences mingle and synthesize.
Unpacking the Love Affair Between the LGBTQ Community and Design
The new survey book Queer x Design, written by Andy Campbell, chronicles the development of queer design, foregrounding politics and activism.
Less Is Still a Bore: New Exhibition Explores Maximalist Art and Design
The show, on view from June 26 through September 22 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, features a cross-disciplinary and intergenerational selection of art forms and styles.
How Humanity Mapped the Moon Over 300 Years
As countries and corporations get ready for a second space race, London's Map House has mounted a timely show on how humans have represented our closest celestial neighbor.
In Lynn, Massachusetts, a Public Art and Lighting Initiative Enlivens a Former Industrial City Center
The city's expansive downtown installation comprises 42 large-scale murals by renowned street artists, underpass lighting, and 11 refurbished vintage neon signs
A Boisterous "Colour Palace" Rises at London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery
The pavilion, which sits next to John Soane’s 19th-century museum, is opening as a part of the London Festival of Architecture.
With Installation at Madison Square Park, Artist Leonardo Drew Ponders Temporality and Horizontality
“City in the Grass” marks a scaling up of a practice that has long investigated materiality and decay.
How the Vineyard-Style Concert Hall Took Over the World (and Changed How We Hear Music)
With its promise to make every seat great, the vineyard-style concert hall has proliferated. But this format is breathtakingly at odds with the spirit of the original vineyard halls.
Open Style Lab, in Collaboration With Parsons School of Design, Helps Prove Accessibility Is Fashion Forward
The semester-long universal design program sees students work with a client to co-create bespoke wearables, all culminating with a showcase presentation.
2019 Architectural League Prize Winners Announced
The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers—now in its 38th year—recognizes exemplary work from six rising practices in North America.
Why the Iconic Glassworks of Timo Sarpaneva Still Feel Fresh Today
The Finnish designer Timo Sarpaneva was a master of glass. His first pieces in the 1950s introduced the wet-stick method, which creates steam bubbles within still-hot glass. Sarpaneva later refined the technique by adding color. Courtesy…
The Bauhaus Comes (Back) to Weimar
The new Bauhaus Museum Weimar—which just opened earlier this month—reveals the school’s forgotten and never-seen-before early history.
Perched Over 2,000-Year-Old Roman Mosaics and Ruins, This Hotel Takes a Bold Approach to Historic Preservation
Designed by EAA–Emre Arolat Architecture, the 199-room hotel in Antakya, Turkey, features prefab modules slotted into a massive network of steel columns.
To Realize Her Art's Vibrant Hues, Janet Echelman Often Collaborates with Lighting Engineers at Arup
The partnership between the artist and the firm goes back more than a decade. Together, they aim to predict the behavior of light in relation to materials, weather, humidity, existing daylighting, and other factors.
Designer Brecht Wright Gander's Work Is Both Elusive and Exploratory
Gander’s practice is twofold, straddling conceptual and industrial design: He develops restrained commercial editions under a moniker and imaginative sculptural work under his own name.
New Color Technologies Are Challenging CMYK’s Hegemony
Color Library: Research into Color Reproduction and Printing shows how new color printing advances are blurring the lines between color reality, representation, and reproduction.
Two North Carolina Exhibitions Bring New Lenses to Familiar Design Conversations
At the Plant 7 design center, Beyond the Mask explores black and African diaspora design while Terra Incognita surveys contemporary experimentation in ceramics.
