Category: Design
Issue 138 April 2011
Back & Forth
The histories of two legendary Milanese magazines, Domus and Abitare, are intertwined with the extraordinary generation of Italian designers who burst onto the scene 50 years ago
Issue 138 April 2011
Artist Project: Barbara Bloom
Since the 1970s Barbara Bloom has used photography, installation, film and books as a means of looking at issues of collecting, museology, design, taste and our investment in the objects with which we surround ourselves. In this project for frieze, created together with writer Susan Tallman, Bloom – who is referred to throughout as ‘BB’ – presents selections from her 2008 installation and book The Collections of Barbara Bloom, a work about ‘the way things carry ideas’
Issue 138 April 2011
Design Matters
A roundtable discussion between six designers and critics, led by Eugenia Bell, debating the largely unresolved relationship between design and social responsibility – one that is constrained by politics and fraught with pitfalls
Issue 134 October 2010
Come Together
Whether re-making found furniture or organizing a makeshift ‘Trattoria’, Martino Gamper produces ad hoc solutions for living
Issue 129 March 2010
In Translation
A Dutch–Arabic typography project shows increasing compatibility between strikingly different languages and cultures
Issue 104 January-February 2007
Looking Back: Design
From YouTube to a Hussein Chalayan dress, looking back over the most innovative design and technology of 2006
Issue 95 November-December 2005
Make and Do
Born in Munich in 1965, Konstantin Grcic trained as a cabinet-maker and then studied design at Royal College of Art in London. After graduating he worked in Jasper Morrison’s studio before opening his own practice, Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID), in Munich in 1991. He has designed products for companies including Authentics, ClassiCon, Flos, Iittala, Magis, Muji and Plank. KGID, a monograph on his work, is published by Phaidon
Issue 68 June-August 2002
Everyday Exotics
Ornamental typefaces
Issue 66 April 2002
Dream machines
Robot art
Issue 64 January-February 2002
House style
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