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A Major Retrospective Celebrates Iris van Herpen’s Mesmerizing Designs at the Intersection of Art, Fashion, and Science

Colossal

Van Herpen founded her eponymous brand in 2007 and has since created a vast oeuvre embracing the beauty of the natural world. Other works are similarly shapely, like those in Hypnosis , which feature bulbous skirts and mind-bending patterns that sway with mesmerizing movement.

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In ‘Dyal Thak,’ Photographer Kin Coedel Offers an Intimate Glimpse of Life on the Rapidly Changing Tibetan Plateau

Colossal

The rapidly progressing effects of the climate crisis are changing agricultural patterns and thus the natural cycles that have been part of life for centuries. Opened in 2007, the studio boasts a robust ecosystem of women-led artisanal work, much of which focuses on traditional systems and sustainability.

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The 10 Most Beguiling Designs at Maison&Object 2024

Design Milk

This year’s theme “Tech Eden” emphasized a dreamy optimism, biophilia, technology, and well-being while kaleidoscopic patterns, neon hues – including yellow, orange, purple, and green – as well as an eclectic pastiche of periods from art deco to 1970s were also on display.

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“A tribute to pure expression”: a Polish design guide

Design Week

.” Part of Syfon Studio’s poster exhibition Tofil founded the Warsaw-based graphic design consultancy, Syfon Studio, with Ula Janowska in 2015. This could be seen at the Institute of Design Kielce, where a poster exhibition played on the cultural significance of Apple logos and balloon letters.

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F5: David Trubridge on Forward-Thinking Art, Indigenous Voices, + More

Design Milk

Water in the Southern Hemisphere by Ron Arad I saw this when it was first exhibited in Milan in 2007 in exactly this setting. Theirs is one of the oldest extant races on Earth; it is as if their 60,000-year-old relationship with their land is flowing through them onto the canvas in these patterns of dotted paint marks.

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Postcards From Suburbia: Rethinking the Urban Peripheries

Azure Magazine

In Canada, where patterns of white flight and urban disinvestment were not as stark, some mid-century suburbs — including Scarborough — were developed as affordable immigrant destinations shortly after the Second World War. It’s a pattern established well before the COVID-19 pandemic’s much-touted — though overstated — urban exodus.

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Meet the Jury of the 2023 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

His gamble paid off and in 2007, he opened his eponymous studio , where he envisions an impressive array of product and furniture design, as well as art direction and interior architecture, for such international manufacturers such as Ligne Roset, Bonaldo, Buzzispace, Varaschin, Casamania, La Chance and Another Country.