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Archive for the ‘icon’ Category
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Brazilian Design Biennial 2010
Brazil’s flagship design event is sophisticated but a little smug, says Frederico Duarte Despite being Brazil’s seventh largest city and the heart of a major manufacturing region, Curitiba has the feel of a small yet industrious town. It may have the exotic appeal of, say, Minneapolis, but its 1.8 million ...
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Speed Limits
Canada’s CCA marks the futurist centenary by taking a lingering look at the cult of speed. Frederico Duarte hurried to see it The Speed Limits banner on the facade of Montreal’s Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) shows a black and white photograph of an office, complete with dial telephones, typewriters ...
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Nata Family
The Pastel de nata is Portugal’s biggest baking export. Flakey, custard-filled and slightly burnt on top, this small doughy tartlet is available across the world. The original pastel de nata, the Pastel de Belém, has been made by the same small factory near Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon since 1837, ...
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Design 06
A conference about time and design raised questions about the cultural value of the discipline In October, the Vienna University of Applied Arts held a conference about time and design. Called Design 06, the event hosted an impressive line-up of speakers including designers Konstantin Grcic, Martino Gamper, Jerszy Seymour and ...
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The State of Things
A show of design and craft by a disparate selection of practitioners leaves Frederico Duarte wondering just what the state of things is The State of Things, currently showing at the National Museum in Oslo, presents an array of design collectives and individuals who, according to the curator, Stina Högvist, ...
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Meriç Kara’s B-sides
Meriç Kara’s b-sides project started out, as the name suggests, as an enjoyable distraction from her masters at Milan’s Domus Academy in 2002. “I created about 30 to 40 designs in two months while I actually had to concentrate on my thesis,” she confesses. B-sides are inspired by Kara’s everyday ...
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21 Most Influential
1. Seattle Public Library, OMA. It has had so much press this year you can fill a whole bookshelf… The involvement of the Library direction and staff are considered to be as important as the architects’ job, which is great. 2. Joris Laarman Everyone can’t seem to get enough of ...