By Glenn Adamson Timbuktu, in Mali, lies a little more than 500 miles from Ougadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, toward the southern Sahara. To the extent that most Americans have heard of it, they will associate it only with the notion of the far-flung. But the city is […]
Design in Dialogue returns for a conversation with Tom Dixon, recorded recently from his London studio. This versatile, even chameleonic innovator has reinvented himself many times over the course of his long career. In our conversation, we return to his early days as an enfant terrible of the British scene. As a leading exponent of […]
By Glenn Adamson How should we talk about design, today? The conceptual canon handed down from the past – functionalism, truth to materials, ergonomics, all the familiar vocabulary – remains instructive. But it is no longer fit for purpose. Knowing all we know about design and its freighted past, we need not only new […]
Conscious Actions is an outdoor installation designed by gt2P for the 2020 Miami Design District Commission, curated by Anava Projects. gt2P’s poetic design responds to a curatorial brief that asked the studio to reflect both on the energy we consume and the energy we contribute back to the world. Particularly in this moment, as people […]
