The contest called for a prototype on a 1:1 scale, but the funds were not enough to make one. Or rather, the budget was not enough, but creativity was. An ingenuous exercise in recycling allowed a group of students advised by the professor Albert Esteve...
Design these days is overrated. While it is important that we live in functional and pleasing surroundings I think beauty and efficiency can be found in so many places other than a design showroom. I hope that modern design won't ever stop people from finding...
One of the main features of present-day design is the diversity of simultaneously coexisting aesthetics reviving styles that originally made their mark in such key periods as the 1950s, 1970s or 1990s through the use of the graphic resources in force at those times. Each designer...
When talking about Armenian design nowadays, we must fist address its origins and Armenian culture in general. Having a culture with a long history and many different eras, being situated between West and East, Armenia has always been influenced by both, and this is true not...
Six years ago, having been unemployed for a year, doing crappy design projects and hearing all over fairs and factories: "Designers? What for? I can do this myself…", I was at the juncture of choosing between becoming a removals assistant, a security agent, or a...
When I came to New York I was introduced as “a young designer from the Coast.” Even though I’d lived in California for my first 22 years, I’d never heard the term “the Coast,” which was how New Yorkers referred to L.A. and San Francisco....
The industrial revolution of the late 19th century that brought machines to life and gave rise to design also brought on pollution and the deterioration of our planet. Our concern for the environment, global warming, and the dwindling of some basic resources is growing at...
The (massive/compulsive) consumption of data is a distinctive characteristic of our time. We have access to unlimited figures on current affairs, about our environment, about anything we may wish to know. We have always measured, weighed, compared, and quantified all sorts of aspects relating to...
In 2006, The Bakersfield Californian daily newspaper launched a radical redesign that transfigured its cover into a lively mosaic of images and headlines. The result was not too regular, for the success of a design varies depending on the material it is built with and...
A total of over 20 design creatives and studios from 8 countries, ranging from the United States to Lebanon, Holland and Brazil, and others, have collaborated in Hiatus, a not-for-profit publication featuring opinions and reflections from leading names in international design—Jasper Morrison, Li Edelkoort, Nacho...
