Author: Lucy Gong

Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin) are experimental materialists, animated by a holistic and ecological vision. In their conversation with Glenn Adamson, Formafantasma discussed their recent research-driven projects Cambio and Ore Streams, which consider the commodity flow in timber and electronics, respectively – cross-section cut through the complex and problematic systems in which we live. […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #68: Formafantasma (Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin)

With influences ranging from Isamu Noguchi to Constantin Brâncuși – and the Bamum, Dogon, Baoulé, Senufo, Dan, and Mossi works of his personal collection – Thaddeus Mosley‘s sculptures mark an inflection point in the history of American abstraction. These “sculptural improvisations,” as he calls them, takes cues from the modernist traditions of jazz. From his […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #67: Thaddeus Mosley

Amie Siegel brought a new vantage point to our series, as an artist who has deeply considered design as one aspect of her subject matter. Our conversation focused primarily on a series of works, among them: Quarry (2015), which tracks the passage of marble from its underground source in Vermont to real estate developments in […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #66: Amie Siegel

As president of the Rio World Heritage Institute and the Mayor’s Special Advisor for Urban Issues, Washington Fajardo created policies and finance solutions to preserve heritage, regenerate buildings and places, and improve public services in Rio de Janeiro. His innovative initiatives revived cultural heritage and the rehabilitation of historic buildings. Now using the latest 3D […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #65: Washington Fajardo

Stefan Sagmeister began his career as the enfant terrible of graphic design, bringing a new emotional intensity to the discipline. He has remained a provocateur while continually broadening the range and vocabulary of his work – encompassing installations, exhibitions, and films – always showing his distinctive touch, humorous, arresting, and insightful.   Watch the conversation […]

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Georgianna Stout is a founding partner and creative director at 2×4. She leads diverse projects from extensive retail and architectural projects to large-scale strategy, brand identity, packaging, digital, exhibition and environmental graphics/wayfinding programs. Georgie joined us to share a broad range of her work for design-driven brands and discuss the next chapter for 2×4.   […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #62: Georgianna Stout

April Greiman, the California-based artist and designer, has had a leading role in shaping visual culture for over forty years. We began with her works of the mid-1980s, which were among the first digital graphics ever made, and also expressed a pioneering feminist vision; then continued to her more recent forays into the domains of […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #61: April Greiman

Architects Billie Tsien & Tod Williams have been at the forefront of crafting buildings for the past 30 years. As an act of profound optimism, they view architecture as having the potential to give a sense of grace to life. Speaking of their work on public buildings, they shed light on their studio practice where […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #60: Billie Tsien & Tod Williams

Hella Jongerius’s process-driven approach calls into question many of the standard presumptions of the design profession. In our interview, she discussed her critique of contemporary culture’s obsession with the new, and her ongoing attempt to “search beyond appearances,” transcending industrial systems of production: “a search for quality, for oxygen.”   Watch the conversation here:   […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #59: Hella Jongerius

Carla Fernández & Pedro Reyes are a creative couple living and working in Mexico City. As a fashion designer collaborating with communities and a sculptor working with social interaction, they share a fierce passion for the preservation of indigenous, modernist, and contemporary Mexican culture. Speaking from their celebrated self-designed home as laboratory, they presented their […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #58: Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernández

Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of the architecture and design firm SO-IL discussed their international practice, which ranges across scales from the object to the city. Whether designing seating or an entire museum, SO-IL’s work is always activated by the core principle of increasing public awareness about our social and physical surroundings.   Watch the […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #57: Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu

London-born Beatrice Galilee is the cofounder and executive director of The World Around design conference. Over the past decade, her positions and projects have ranged from the Metropolitan Museum’s first associate curator of architecture & design to co-curating three architecture biennales, to launching the popular lecture series, In Our Time, A Year of Architecture In […]

Read More… from Design in Dialogue #56: Beatrice Galilee