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Meet the Jury of the 2023 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

ALAIN GILLES Portrait by Lydie Nesvadba Design as a second life: After a brief stint in the financial world, Gilles returned to study industrial design, at the urging of his wife, in France. In 2012 Barber Osgerby launched the strategy-based industrial design consultancy Map Project Office. JERRY VAN EYCK !melk’s

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Dot Dot Dot Is the Most Influential Design Magazine You’ve Never Heard Of

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As design writer Emily King would later put it: it wasn’t a magazine about graphic design but a magazine from graphic design. The exhibition featured Bertolotti-Bailey and Reinfurt along with many DDD contributors like van der Velden, Pesko, Will Holder, and James Goggin. .

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Design in Conversation: Stephanie Hosein, Jeff Shaw, Jordan Rice, and Omar Gandhi

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Last fall, I visited the elegant KPMB-designed Harrison McCain Pavilion at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. In October, the Beaverbrook unveiled “Omar Gandhi Architects,” a months-long exhibit — which ran until early 2024 — chronicling the work of the eponymous Halifax- and Toronto-based firm.

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Years later, after graduating, he joined Murano-based glassmaker Slaviati before becoming a product designer and consultant for lighting company Foscarini. In 2006, Luca founded his eponymous multidisciplinary design practice back in Venice, specializing in industrial design, product design, and design consultancy.

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Vignelli learned how to design lighting fixtures and a house in Venice, but eventually realized , “the architectural process was too slow if compared to the speed of the industrial design process.” This led him to shift his focus towards editorial, product, and packaging design. And he did.

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The 25 Most Famous Graphic Designers of All Time

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1 Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design Hardcover Book Jennifer Bass (Author) English (Publication Language) 428 Pages – 11/09/2011 (Publication Date) – Laurence King Publishing (Publisher) −$37.49 $47.51 This man's design skills were so top-notch that it's rumoured he could create a stunning visual out of thin air.

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AZ Awards 2020: Meet the Jury!

Azure Magazine

The prolific furniture and product designer Luca Nichetto graduated from the Università Iuav di Venezia in 1998 and began his career in industrial design the very next year. He started out at the Murano-based glass maker Salviati, and then worked as a product designer and consultant for lighting company Foscarini.