Marcus Fairs reviews the Marc Newson exhibition at the Design Museum in this month’s Icon magazine: “Few designers change the visual language of everyday life – Marc Newson is one,” blathers the first of the wall texts in this mid-career retrospective. “He has transformed the design of the objects and spaces around us through his …
OK, rather predictably, this hasn’t gone as smoothly as I’d hoped. There seems to be a problem with the image feed and it’s repeating the last picture with every cron job. Bloglines is ignoring it because it recognises the repetition, could somebody who uses a different news reader let me know how it is behaving? …
I’m at my father’s house today, posting this via e-mail. It’s his 60th birthday this week and I’ve come home to give him his gift. He’s unearthed a copy of the Daily Express from the day he was born and on the front cover, amid news about the destruction of Budapest, is a piece about …
If you subscribe to this site using RSS you may have noticed that a few of the entries you’ve already read have just popped up again. Don’t adjust your set, I’ve moved the newsfeed over to an aggregator that pulls in extra content. Scroll back down the list and you’ll see some extra images – …
The RIBA President’s Medals results have just been announced. This year I’m particularly interested in a couple of the dissertation awards. A commendation went to Angela Hatherell from Oxford Brookes University for her piece Who do they think we are? Perceptions of Architects in Twenty First Century Britain. Who do they think we are? Who …
It’s been a bad week, architecturally speaking; making spaces and places hasn’t been as much fun as usual. Problems on site, a roof that wouldn’t fit, wasting time explaining why it wasn’t my fault and grappling with more design codes is a small sample of the last seven days. This week’s bid and this week’s …
For more on the relationship between craft and design, see Peter’s entry – Art, Craft, and Design in Software Development.