Curated Stories of the Contemporary Design World

An experienced and passionate curator with a background in museum exhibitions, events and installations. Always working in an efficient, cost effective way to ensure all projects are delivered on time and on budget. 

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The 10 Best Design Museums in the World - The Shutterstock Blog

These 10 museums, which span from applied art to architectural design, offer inspiration to designers and non-designers alike.

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Bregenzer Festspiele 2013 - Mozart's "Zauberflöte" - Highlights

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Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design

  Rams introduced the idea of sustainable development and of obsolescence being a crime in design in the 1970s.[1] Accordingly he asked himself the question: is my design good design? The answer formed his now celebrated ten principles.

Good design:[3]

Is innovative - The possibilities for progression are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for original designs. But imaginative design always develops in tandem with improving technology, and can never be an end in itself.

Makes a product useful - A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic criteria. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could detract from it.

Is aesthetic - The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products are used every day and have an effect on people and their well-being. Only well-executed objects can be beautiful.

Makes a product understandable - It clarifies the product’s structure. Better still, it can make the product clearly express its function by making use of the user's intuition. At best, it is self-explanatory.

Is unobtrusive - Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user's self-expression.

Is honest - It does not make a product appear more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.

Is long-lasting - It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years – even in today's throwaway society.

Is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.

Is environmentally friendly - Design makes an important contribution to the preservation of the environment. It conserves resources and minimizes physical and visual pollution throughout the lifecycle of the product.

Is as little design as possible - Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

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Dinner and an Exhibition

If you’re in London this Valentine’s Day, take your loved one to a beautiful pre-dinner exhibition opening .. we’re loving Sophy Rickett: Objects in the Field, opening at Camilla Grimaldi. 

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codex seraphinianus

http://the-dimka.livejournal.com/6645.html

In the late 70s italian architect, illustrator and industrial designer luigi serafini made a book, an encyclopedia of unknown, parallel world. it’s about 360-380 pages. it is written in an unknown language, using an unknown alphabet. it took him 30 month to complete that masterpiece that many might call “the strangest book on earth”. codex seraphinianus is divided to 11 chapters and two parts - first one is about nature and the second one is about people. btw five hundred years ago there was another book somewhat like that - voynich manuscript. take a look at some pages

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#68 Vasif Kortun

From the outside, last year, Istanbul seemed just another ‘hyperambitious’ (Kortun’s word) art scene. And then the Gezi Park protests happened. Even before this, Kortun, as the director of research and programmes at multivenue nonprofit gallery SALT, was Turkish art’s de facto spokesperson to the rest of the world and prime instigator of this burgeoning contemporary art capital. A 2012 New York Times article quoted an unnamed artist as noting that ‘there was before and after Vasıf’. As unrest on Istanbul’s streets blew up, the former CSS Bard director gave commentary and insider analysis from the thick of it. He’s navigated the aftermath well too. SALT recently stepped in to help stage an Istanbul Biennial undermined by the city’s volatile political situation, a reminder that if anyone can mediate between Turkey’s politics and the need to sustain its progressive artworld, it’s Kortun

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The RIBAJ120 Series: Blurring the Boundaries | Interview with Ivan Harbour

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@07.05 my daddy looks so cool as always :) 

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FUTURE SELF | Project Film

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A little fashion didn't hurt me. It was fun while it lasted :-) #lfw #somersethouse #bfc #devilwearsprada

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Haunted Play House At The MoCA In Tokyo by Torafu Architects via Yatzer

This ‘Haunted House’ is not like any you will have seen before and comes in the form of a spooky gallery of paintings that at first seem ordinary but soon turn out to have some hidden surprises in store. The concept behind Torafu Architects’ ‘Haunted Play House’ is to challenge perspectives and norms where rules are broken as children are actually encouraged to run, shout and touch – activities usually forbidden in a gallery or a museum. 

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I want to play.

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The iconic British 'Pop' artist Sir Peter Blake, creator of the Beatles’ famous Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, today launched Art Everywhere, the world’s largest art show, showcasing the nation's favourite British art on tens of thousands of poster sites across the UK for two weeks from 12 – 25 August 2013.   

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How To Make Clouds Indoors: Nimbus By Berndnaut Smilde

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From a floating cinema to a car park-cum-art gallery, some of Britain's most innovative (and people-friendly) design is seen in temporary projects in public spaces. Here's what's been popping up in London and beyond this summer