This e-scooter looks like it’s from the future, but you can ride it now
A Vietnamese design studio has created Bandit9 Nano, a vehicle that looks like something out of a 1960s sci-fi movie: it looks like a concept design, but it’s not.
Strike a pose
Fashion and art have always been inseparably entwined: great paintings have depicted the style of their time, and great fashion designers have often celebrated art, from Dolce and Gabbana to Louis Vuitton, from Versace to SuitUp’s kimonos.
12 libraries for the new millennium
In a time of global systemic crisis, libraries are increasingly a beacon of community awareness and identity, projects developed in the belief that only knowledge will save us. We have selected 12 representative projects around the world.
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The newspaper that shows the war as seen by Ukrainian photographers
Through the photos of those who suffer war in the first place, The Information Front: Volume One is a project that chronicles the first two months of the armed clash between Moscow and Kiev.
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Vibram Carrarmato, the beginning of a design story and the quest for a dialogue with nature
85 years ago, Vitale Bramani patented the Carrarmato rubber sole, the starting point of a decades-long experimentation bringing mountaineering and the human being ever closer, combining performance, experience and sustainability.
Beyond brutalism: back to Habitat 67, Moshe Safdie’s built utopia
Caught in between the fireworks of the Montreal Expo and the ice of Canadian winters, the history of the housing complex through the pages of Domus archive, and the photography by Roberto Conte.
A living facade for birds and insects
Buro Happold and Cookfox Architects have developed a terracotta prototype, capable of hosting small wild animals, insects, birds, and plants.
Who is Romain Gavras, the director of architecture that generates anger
The visionary of the suburban epic, known for directing music videos such as Jamie XX’s Gosh, is the creator of Athena, coming soon on Netflix, a feature film shot like a video clip: Romain Gavras’s Kombat Banlieue video by video.
Kengo Kuma rebuilds bridge destroyed by the 2018 Japan floods
In Iwakuni, the Kusugibashi bridge has been redesigned by KKAA to merge traditional carpentry and computational design, as a symbol of renewal.
Ikea’s low-cost photovoltaic kit
There has been much talk about the launch of Ikea’s low-cost, but obviously not do-it-yourself, photovoltaic kit in California: but in Europe, it has been available for a few years already.
Figma: why design helps to do business
As the company cashes in a $20 billion check from acquirer Adobe, we had a chat with Figma’s Product Designer to learn why businesses should adopt a design-centric mindset to ensure success.
Paul Smith: “A door handle is like a handshake”
The British designer tells of an ancient artisan manufacturing method that has survived to the present day for modern applications of great refinement such as bronze handles: the sand casting technique.
MoMA auctions works by Picasso and Bacon to buy its first NFTs
Artworks from the museum’s considerable collection will be sold to raise money in order to increase the presence of digital art.
Desert architectures: dwelling in the uninhabitable
Nine dwellings in some of the most forbidding territories on the planet testify to the value of resilience in architecture, in respect of nature as an omnipresent and constant interlocutor.
Apple has turned a “hole” into an opportunity
Where there was a blank space, Apple created an island: a new graphic and interactive element that reimagines the top of the screen, probably the most important innovation introduced in the iPhone interface in recent years.
Nari Ward’s exhibition at a historic outdoor pool in Milan
The New York-based artist’s works, some created for this occasion, dialogue with the almost 100-year-old architecture of the Centro Balneare Romano in one of the most anticipated art exhibitions of the season, promoted by Fondazione Trussardi.