Now in its ninth year, London Design Festival (LDF) has held from 17th -25th September in London. The largest and most significant design festival with 180 partners and almost 300 events across the city celebrated thi...

THE UNILEVER SERIES : AI WEIWEI “SUNFLOWER SEEDS”

2011.2.18　 Text: Yumiko Isa

A leading Chinese artist, Ai WeiWei 's “Sunflower Seeds” has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London. He is known for his conceptual works but he is also active in architecture, design, publications, curating, and...

DECODE: DIGITAL DESIGN SENSATIONS

2010.4.8　 Text: Eduard Prats Molner

Last chance to see Decode this week. The exhibition ends by the 11th of April, so make sure you don't miss it because the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) showcases work of some of the best digital artists, coders...

A WINDOW ON SELFRIDGES CREATIVE WINDOWS

2010.4.7　 Text: Waiming

“For an idea, it can be anything. Our inspiration for the seed of an idea comes a lot from different sources, through lots of different layers and cultures. Quite often, we pull in a little bit of stuffs in the fashio...

HARVEST BY ASIF KHAN

2010.2.25　 Text: Asif Khan

Harvest by Asif Khan is a project developed for my current show at the Design Museum London as part of the “Designers in Residence” programme. This year five designers were invited by the museum to each develop co...

JOEL CAHEN: WET SOUNDS

2009.12.10　 Text: Victor Moreno

Perhaps the idea about to combine the experience of diving whilst listen to music has crossed your mind before. We don´t know if the engeeneries from Apple have some acqua-iPod in development but for the moment, if y...

LONDON FASHION WEEK 2010 S/S

2009.10.13　 Text: Sayaka Kishi

London Fashion Week (LFW) 2010 S/S, which consisted of 89 off-schedule shows and 35 presentations, was held from 18th through 23rd of September at Somerset House. This event came to an incredibly triumphant end. It is...

SELFRIDGES CENTENARY EXHIBITION

2009.7.7　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

It was a fuchsia pink MIU MIU purse. The first thing that I ever bought at Selfridges in my life. Its golden metal fittings and smooth leather skin shined in the show case almost winking at me. I couldn’t move. Ev...

LONDON FASHION WEEK A/W ‘09

2009.4.30　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

The last show of the very first day at London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter ‘09 was also the most anticipated. The venue was Vauxhall Fashion Scout, the main building of LFW off schedule for last six seasons. Why was thi...

FUTURE FOODS

2009.3.31　 Text: Waiming

"YES" OR "NO" - WHAT'D YOU SAY? The introduction started with, “One billion people in the world go hungry every day. But is genetically modified (GM) food the answer?” © Science Museum Science Museum London...

JAPAN CARS – DESIGNS FOR THE CROWDED GLOBE

2009.3.5　 Text: Waiming

"LET'S MAKE REAL MINIATURE CARS", SAY JAPANESE CAR MAKERS. Nissan Pivo 2 The Japanese has always been regarded as the "Godfather" of automotive industry, and now they have taken another quantum leap to promote...

HUSSEIN CHALAYAN: FROM FASHION AND BACK

2009.2.13　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

In spite of the snowiest days London has witnessed in last eighteen years, The design museum has been crowded with people with slightly red faces. Not only because of the cold weather. They all are so excited to see t...