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Mariscal Drawing Life at the Design Museum London
01 July – 01 November 2009 The first UK retrospective of Spanish designer and artist Javier Mariscal will open on July 1 at the Design Museum, London. Regarded as one of the world’s most innovative and...
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Mariscal whirlwind
While in London I visited the Mariscal retrospective (see technical details here) and found it wonderful. The energy of Mariscal’s design reverberates through the exhibition, a dizzying display that...
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A map of writing on walls
Design collective REDImei are putting together a great online guide to Barcelona graffiti, with photos linked to Google map tags. UNFORTUNATELY (yes, this is me shouting) I can’t post any of the great...
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Techs-Mechs – Steampunk time?
I’ve been following the Steampunk phenomenon with fascination. It’s a stylistical branching out that makes perfect sense to me, bringing as it does the formal exuberance of 19th century excitement at...
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Art Deco in Barcelona
The Design History Foundation launches its teaching programme with a course on Art Deco, which will offer both an international approach to the style and sessions on its local impact. The 18-hour...
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The Goods? In ‘The Work’
I’ve added a new page to this blog – it’s called ‘The work’. It lives on the right-hand sidebar, alongside ‘the author’, ‘the blog’ and ‘the book’. It has a selection of links to some of my writing, as...
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Panton Spanish Specials in Madrid
The Architectural Foundation COAM in Madrid has organised an exhibition of one-off Verner Panton chairs, reinterpreted by a selection of Spanish designers and artists. The show, 10 Autores + 10 Sillas...
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Past and Future of the Barcelona Model
The new web of Parc de Belloch has been launched, with a whole set of great video interviews about design, Barcelona, urban landscaping and the city. Each interview comes with a downloadable pdf...
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Design Cities on Hong Kong TV – Barcelona
The Barcelona episode of Hong Kong TV’s Design Cities series airs on Boxing Day (Dec 26) – a rare opportunity to hear me proffer yet more words of wisdom, in Chinese! (Dubbed, of course). An English...
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Design and History – Book launch
El próximo viernes 19 de marzo, Editorial Designio y la Fundación Historia del Diseño, presentarán el libro Diseño e historia. Tiempo, lugar y discurso en en el Disseny Hub Barcelona (DHUB). Esta nueva...
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