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...
Paper-made Life· septiembre de 2011 Las Mesas Mustafá y Duduá, que se puede convertir en librería o banco corrido, según el uso que se quiera dar de ella han conquistado a los editores del mercado chino, prueba de ello es su aparición en Paper-Madre Life,...
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...
El chef del restaurante Cuina al Quadrat, Sergio Mohedano; y la diseñadora Ana Yago se han unido para crear un menú especial que convierte a creativos internacionales en recetas elaboradas con productos tradicionales que se podrán degustar durante la semana de la Feria Hábitat Valencia. La propuesta...
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...
Una veintena de los principales referentes internacionales del diseño nos aportan su visión más particular sobre el futuro de los coches, las ciudades o las motivaciones que les llevan a concebir un nuevo mueble u objeto en Hiatus, un libro sin ánimo de lucro y concebido...
When they ask me how ideas are born, or the ever recurrent and hollow question: "what is your inspiration when you design?", I find myself pondering the subject on two levels. I believe ideas can come from different sources, and I do not think that there...
