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15 Artists Bring Spectacular Mirages to the Arabian Desert

Azure Magazine

The organization behind the exhibition, The Desert Biennial , is a California-based arts non-profit dedicated to staging site-specific interventions that build upon the land art movement of the ’60s and ’70s. This year’s open-air exhibition adopts the theme of sarab , or mirage. Courtesy of the artist and Desert X AlUla.

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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. It’s New Zealand’s first design-led tourism experience. Only after all this will he take his design digital. Today, David Trubridge joins us to share more in Friday Five ! Photo: Ron Arad 1.

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Milan Design Week 2022: Highlights from Our Camera Roll

Azure Magazine

Commissioned by the local tourism agency, the posters are the work of Riccardo De Franceschi, the Milan-born creative director of London typeface design studio Dalton Maag. Heading into the 60th anniversary edition of Salone del Mobile at the Fiera Milano exhibition centre. Design is Milano is design.

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Warhol, Land Art and a giant mirrored building set in the striking desert landscape of ancient Saudi Arabia

Creative Boom

With a population of 35 million, and more than 75% aged under thirty-five, the Kingdom is embarking on transformational development to embolden, employ and entertain its populous and attract growing national, regional and international tourism. AlUla Arts Festival is currently on show, under the central theme of 'Living in Colour'.

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Design inspiration: the best projects from February

Design Week

Exhibition: The Swedish Design Museum To Go, by Visit Sweden. According to Visit Sweden – the country’s official travel and tourism website – blending in with locals is one of the most rewarding experiences for seasoned travellers.

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The Vibrant World of Japanese Graphic Design

Inkbot Design

Prefectures, cities, towns, and train stations adopt cute mascot characters or “yuru kyara” to promote tourism and local goods. Local Mascot Characters There are over 1,400 “gotōchi kyara” mascots for geographic places across Japan.

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Inside Spain’s interdisciplinary and evolving design scene

Design Week

Design could also be an opportunity to redress one of the city’s biggest issues: tourism. It’s become such a problem that a term has even been coined: parquetematización, which roughly translates to the act of becoming an amusement park or theme-park-isation. In 2017, 30 million people visited the city.