simples

Wild Bar

Whether you missed breakfast, need a workout power boost or a mid-afternoon snack, there’s always a cereal bar to get you going.  Despite their crunchy, hippie origins, cereal, granola or power bars are today a billion-dollar industry of highly sophisticated, designed foodstuffs. But what does this food group really look like?

(more…)

Eu tive o prazer de escrever o texto que acompanha a peça do atelier Miguel Rios Design nesta exposição, a qual traz à mesma sala – e à mesma mesa – uma artista (Ângela Ferreira) e um atelier de design.

Konstantin Grcic’s 360ºC chair for Magis is a product that defies classification. It’s a chair that doesn’t look like anything we have around us these days. It’s a bit like stool, but it has a sort of a small back. It looks hard, but it’s actually much softer to the touch than one would thing. As with other of Grcic’s creations, it doesn’t look pretty, luxurious or particularly comfortable.

(more…)

Metropolis magazine, September 2009

The printed version of Metropolis magazine has shrunk as of last September. The result of a publishing crisis-induced redesign (in corner-cutting times, every inch counts), the magazine’s new size did not resolve its two other most pressing ills: an unclear international ambition and an art direction that doesn’t seem to know its place.

(more…)