Paris
Paris’s vitality, the quality of its professional network, its design education, and its sparkling creativity and cultural environment make it a one-of-a-kind international focal point for attracting global talents in search of development and innovation opportunities in the design and lifestyle sectors.
London
Korea Design is an exhibition located within 100% design showcasing the best of contemporary Korean furniture, lighting, product and textile design. The show presents the designs of who they feel are the next generation of Korean design leaders alongside the main display.
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Mint will be presenting the exhibition ‘Mint Explores’ during the London Design Festival 2011. The show brings together fifty fearless designers, or as Mint calls them ‘intrepid expolorers’, examining the influence of fashion, material science and indigenous crafts in their designs.
Chicago
Wright Auctions are hosting another of their ‘Living Contemporary’ sales, an ingenious auction category which offers contemporary collectible art and design objects all under the umbrella of contemporary lifestyle.
DeTnk — A new way of collecting design
Collecting […]
London
London Design Guide have teamed up with Japanese brand Tokyobike for a second year, offering exciting localised design tours to some of the best exhibitions and events during this year’s London Design Festival.
Continue Reading →The Geometric Staircase in St Paul’s Cathedral is housing an optical installation, entitled Perspectives, designed by John Pawson as part of the London Design Festival.
DeTnk — A new way of collecting design
Collecting Design
London
Ridley’s, a temporary dining experience in Dalston, is a project by The Decorators and Atelier Chan Chan. This group of designers-artists-architects have transformed an exposed yet derelict void in Ridley Road market, into a podium for outdoor eating.
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This fall Wright introduces guest-curated exhibitions to Wright 21, the auction house’s contemporary design platform. For the inaugural exhibition, Wright turns to the event-based Volume Gallery (VOL) to select intriguing new works by today’s designers.
The term “tradigital” art refers to art that is created by combining traditional and digital media. Jim Leggitt’s presentation (below) shows you how he employs conventional drawing techniques to produce textured, warm, and visually interesting architectural drawings using digital renderings from, in the case of this class, the SketchUp 3D program
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