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Accessibility Measure or Exclusive Architecture?

Azure Magazine

Also known as hostile, unpleasant or exclusive architecture, defensive design practice uses the built environment to guide or restrict behaviour in urban space as a tool for preventing crime or maintaining order. This could be a range, as it appears in other accessibility design standards. appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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5 Visions for a Socially Distanced Future

Azure Magazine

With many countries slowly starting to ease lockdown measures, beginning to grapple with what living alongside the virus could look like, a number of designers and manufactures have joined the chorus of voices shaping what socially distanced cities, restaurants and offices may become.

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AZURE Talks: Made in Toronto at IDS Toronto

Azure Magazine

Toronto’s design scene is thriving : the city is home to over 24,000 designers and 4,300 manufacturing firms. What does it take to design and make things in Toronto? What kinds of resources — from metal factories to advanced manufacturing tools — are these labels tapping into? Christian Lo, Co-Founder, Anony.

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Branding and Graphic Design: Key Differences

Inkbot Design

Both branding and graphic design are essential when it comes to attracting and retaining customers. That's why developing a cohesive branding and graphic design strategy for your business is crucial. To help your brand stand out from your competition, you need to be a leader in the graphic design world.

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“We Want Our Work to Endure.” An Interview with Didi and Sandi Pei

Azure Magazine

million square foot high-tech campus in Beijing for China’s leading construction-equipment manufacturer SANY. Our conversation, which follows in a concise version, took place inside a square windowless room lined on every side and from floor to ceiling with up-to-date professional magazines and books. We talked about some of I.M.

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“Architects Should Claim the Role to Bring Beauty into People’s Lives”: A Conversation with Alison Brooks

Azure Magazine

I use these design strategies to bring down the typical static, ordered, authoritative language of architecture that you could say started with the Renaissance. That’s one way that I try to break the boundaries and conventions around housing design, in particular. It is refreshing. I see the city as a shared project.

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2024: Is it liminal yet?

UX Collective

Umarells versus Wired Magazine. The letter below was sent to the editor of Wired Magazine in response to their suggested list of 47 things to buy someone for Christmas — a compilation of uninspired but shiny doodads desperately looking for a bigger purpose in life. Wired Magazine should be more than Guns & Ammo loaded with Nvidia.