Author: Kim

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Aug 28, 2019

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After seven years as a co-principal of creative firm Sagmeister & Walsh, designer Jessica Walsh has formed her own creative agency, called simply &Walsh. Announced on Instagram in late July 2019, the development forms the next step for the leading design partnership that oversaw branding, campaigns, and typographical work for everyone from The Rolling Stones to Apple....

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Aug 28, 2019

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A few years ago, 3D printing was hailed as the technology that would transform manufacturing and revolutionize various industries. However, the buzz seems to have fizzled since then. So whatever happened to the technology, and was the hype warranted? The MX3D Printed Bridge was created by robots extruding steel. Photo by Olivier De Gruijtertim 3D printing, also...

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Jul 24, 2019

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Ravi Naidoo, founder and managing director of Design Indaba and Interactive Africa, believes in constant experimentation. Through bridging the theoretical and the practical he sees design as having a primal potency. Design, to Ravi Naidoo, may not serve as the singular remedy to all societal issues, yet, it has the potential to transform society with...

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Jul 24, 2019

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On her nerve-racking first day as an intern at Apple, college student Angela Guzman could not have imagined the impact her work at the company would make. But during her first three months in Cupertino, she helped create a set of pictures that quickly became a universal language. When she was tasked with producing around 480 tiny images that...

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Jun 28, 2019

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From Leonardo Da Vinci to augmented reality, the visual depictions of medicine and the complexities of the human body have evolved immensely, due in part to the growth of parallel design industries – illustration, graphic design, animation, 3D modeling and software engineering – as well as research advances in the fields of ethnography, psychology, and...

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Jun 26, 2019

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The inventions of the past decade feel like a sci-fi vision of the future made real, through buildings grown from corn and mycelium by The Living, silkworms that are injected with coral and jellyfish to produce Tranceflora’s glowing silk, and a robotic fish called SoFi deployed in deep-sea research exploration. Whether experiencing climate crisis and contamination first-hand, or understanding it...

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May 28, 2019

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People often speak about their Block9experience in reverential tones, regularly dropping words like "utopia" and "mind-blowing". For the uninitiated, Block9 is a creative partnership and in-house, design-build studio headquartered in East London, founded just over a decade ago by design maestros Gideon Berger and Steve Gallagher. Block9 explores the space where art, music, theatre and...

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May 27, 2019

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Disobedience was created for the 2018 London Design Biennale. Photo by Ed Reeves “Are you sure this is safe?” I ask as I clamber onto an elevated strip of metal, flanked by vertical rods lined up like pointy sentinels along either side. But before I receive an answer, the weight of my body causes the platform...

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Apr 28, 2019

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Your lighting series, Either/Or, encourages an emotional interaction between individuals and their lighting source. What do you hope that users will take away from this interaction? I hope this light will inspire a sense of play, give people back the curiosity they had as children, the instinct to touch, to give everyday objects a new perspective....

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Apr 28, 2019

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I GET MOTIVATED BY FURY AND FRUSTRATION. Kate Orff, the renowned landscape architect, urban ecologist, and winner of a 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant, says from her award-winning landscape architecture firm, SCAPE. Lined with maps of wetlands and waterfronts, colorful overlay sketches, and a slew of eco-architectural publications, SCAPE specializes in designing monumental ecological landscapes that incorporate the...