Author: Lucy Gong
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Design in Dialogue #100: Sheila Hicks
Design in Dialogue #99: Jacques Herzog
Jacques Herzog, founding partner of the eminent architectural firm Herzog & De Meuron, will join us for an in-depth conversation about his own firm’s practice and legacy, and the cultural role of the architect today. Among the topics we considered are the building’s qualities as a sculptural object; Herzog & De Meuron’s many collaborations with […]
Design in Dialogue #98: Paul S. Briggs
Paul S. Briggs has developed a trenchant body of work over the past few years, deploying foundational techniques of coiling and slab-building to powerfully metaphorical effect. His work touches on brutal realities, such as mass incarceration, while also engaging histories of abstraction and architecture. Join us for a deep exploration of this artist’s technical, aesthetic, […]
Dallas Museum of Art Acquires Work by Samuel Ross
Design in Dialogue #96: Pentagram
Michael Bierut and Paula Scher of Pentagram are two of the world’s leading graphic designers, who have done much to define and reflect on their own discipline. Join us to hear their thoughts on what makes graphics different from other fields of design; the importance of typography as a foundation for their work; and how […]
Apartamento Releases New Book “Faye Toogood: Assemblage 6, Unlearning”
Design in Dialogue #95: Michele Oka Doner
Michele Oka Doner is a true polymath, and long an exemplar of fluidity between creative disciplines. She has worked in numerous materials (ceramic, metals, wax, and more) and in many genres, from figural sculpture to functional furniture to public art. Animating it all are her multifarious sources, which seem to encompass life in all its […]
Design in Dialogue #94: Studio Swine
Studio Swine (Super Wide Interdisciplinary New Explorers) is a collective established in 2011 by Azusa Murakami (JP) and Alexander Groves (UK). Their work straddles between the spheres of sculpture, installations and cinema, blending poetry and research into immersive experiences. The studio adopts an unique approach to each work, drawing on the distinctive resources and vernacular […]
Design in Dialogue #93: MASS Design Group
“Can buildings heal?” was the fundamental question that led Michael Murphy to found the non-profit architectural practice MASS Design Group in 2008. Now a collaborative of over 140 architects, designers, planners, and strategists, with offices in Boston and Kigali, they define their mission as researching, building, and advocating for architecture that promotes justice and human […]
Design in Dialogue #92: Humberto Campana
Humberto Campana, whose work with his brother Fernando has defined avant-garde design practice in Brazil for three decades, talked about the way Estudio Campana has formed its vocabulary through partnerships with international manufacturing and local artisans. Watch the conversation here: About Design in Dialogue Inaugurated in April 2020 in response to the pandemic […]
Design in Dialogue #91: Jonathan Trayte
Jonathan Trayte brings a unique sensibility to the design discipline. His works provide nuanced witness to an age of overabundance; they are exuberant, mordantly witty, with an undertow of melancholy. The compositions, with their intuitive and improbable juxtapositions, recall surrealism while also roaming freely through contemporary pop iconography. Trayte is also a prodigious maker, and […]
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields Acquires Work by Shiro Kuramata
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields acquires work by Shiro Kuramata […]
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Design in Dialogue #90: Irma Boom
Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom has designed over 300 books and is generally regarded as an artist in her field. Considering all aspects of the architecture of the book, including its cover, spine, pages, ink, color, surface, texture and size, as sites for reinvention, she is always experimental and challenges how we understand the printed […]
