Today, industrial designers approach their work from a different perspective. A poetic design of products has evolved based on a plethora of complex criteria -- human experience; social, global, economic and political issues; physical and mental interaction, form, vision, and a rigorous understanding of contemporary...
Can you picture an op-ed column without words? Or a piece of political news in cartoon form? Could one report on a bank stockholder meeting using only a Q&A format supplemented with a fact sheet on the side with ratings, resembling movie recommendations? If you are...
There is an inextricable bond between how I understand architecture and design. Similarly to architecture, in design my goal is to free space from an overload of signs. Whether big or small, I want all my projects to be a synthesis of aesthetic harmony, of...
Las opiniones y reflexiones de algunos de los principales referentes del diseño internacional y firmas vinculadas a la profesión se distribuirán en el primer Congreso Internacional de Diseño e Innovación de Cataluña (CIDIC) en un libro-objeto ecológico, según ha avanzado hoy el director de comunicación...
Although it is generally believed that this sentence was pronounced by the gladiators before the circus show begun, in reality we only have records of its usage during the celebration of the naumachia (naval combat) in honour of emperor Claudius. And it was not even...
Back when everything still had a name of its own, designers were those people who defined products, furniture, lamps, tools, appliances and new devices. Couturiers made clothes, and if these could be called haute couture, then they were presented in Paris. Graphic artists looked after...
On a street corner in the El Carmen district in Valencia, where calle Ripalda crossed with calle Alta, seven bold forthright letters stand out, telling us that that if we find ourselves in danger, we had a refugio, or shelter. This sign for an air-raid...
The commission. This is a vampire ball and you attend with a washed face and a bare neck screaming to be bit. But you do not care, since you already know what you are going to do. You know the ritual and know this is...
There is an economic crisis. Even the president has acknowledged it. This in spite of months of circumlocutions and euphemisms to evade a term that feels cursed for any statistical analyst: crisis. Now that the problem has been made official comes the shower of cosmetic measures,...
El magazine on line de diseño y arquitectura diarioDESIGN publicó ayer una reseña de Articulado, una publicación sin ánimo de lucro cuyo objetivo es trasladar las opiniones y reflexiones de los principales referentes del diseño internacional y firmas vinculadas a la profesión sobre la relación...
