On Design
Even furniture can tell stories...
The V&A's "Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design" fantasizes, parodies, twists, turns, reflects, winks and giggles. It does it all through infusing furniture with storytelling. By Tali Krakowsky
On Design
Cloud Computed Collective Memory
In the song Dead Man's Hill from their 1994 Swamp Ophelia album, The Indigo Girls sang, "Don't take a picture, remember this in your heart..." Fifteen years later, the internet is your photo album, and cloud computing paints your memories. By Ivy Chuang
On Design
The Elusive Jackalope
Nick de la Mare asks whether designers should be engaging users beyond "conversations" - creating open ended products that beg for recombination and re-imagining
On Design
Real Artificial Intelligence is Playing with our Emotions
Project Natal - beyond our interface dreams. By Tali Krakowsky
On Design
Teaching craft in a designed world
"At the most fundamental level, as designers we need to focus on gaining resolution in the tension between concrete practices and thinking," says Nick de la Mare.
On Design
Interactivity at the London Design Festival
Ahead of the i-Design event, Malcolm Garrett and Alex McDowell talk about interfaces and how they affect our relationship to the world around us. By Tali Krakowsky
On Design
Brave new world: the energy of new Middle Eastern design
Pearlfisher's Sophie Maxwell takes us on a design tour of Lebanon
On Design
Alice Rawsthorn's articles are not what they used to be
Prominent design critic Alice Rawsthorn writes columns for both the International Herald Tribune and the NY Times. Her articles are read widely among the design community, sometimes smart, sometimes provocative, recently boring. By Ivy Chuang
On Design
Advanced Brassiere Cleansing Lessons
Every woman has her method for washing her bras. In the ultimate quest for convenience, two products in combination could offer the ultimate solution. By Ivy Chuang
On Design
The Lasting Mark of Modernism
Nick de la Mare looks at Stefan Kanchev, whose work married modernism and the cultural soul of his homeland. By Nick de la Mare
