INSIDE DESIGN AMSTERDAM 2005

2005.9.4　 Text: Ania Markham

September is a good month to visit Amsterdam if you're a fan of contemporary furniture and interior design. Inside Design Amsterdam 2005 returns for a second year of the city-wide initiative which runs from 23rd Septe...

NACH DER NATUR (TOWARDS THE NATURE)

2005.9.4　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

In these few years, there are public opinions saying that Berlin has been getting "spremely sharp". At the beginning, when I just had arrived here, there were still conservertive, former West German unpolished sense,...

THE 1950S: THE BIRTH OF ITALIAN CREATIVITY

2005.9.4　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

The 50s are generally regarded as a period that, more than others, have contributed to establish and summarize the "Italian style" all over the world: the flourishing of characteristically local flavor in design, fash...

DAKIS JOANNOU COLLECTION “TRANSLATION”

2005.9.4　 Text: Vincent Vella

Since its opening in 2002, the Palais de Tokyo has quickly established itself at the forefront of contemporary culture, and is now considered as "the place to be" for all the art-lovers and the fashion junkies. Thi...

LATIN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC CONFERENCE (LAMC) 2005

2005.9.4　 Text: Xpectro

Early August, a flock of young Latinos flew to Manhattan, New York, to take part in one of the most respected conferences devoted to analyze the presence of our culture in the American musical market. Under the baton ...

SINGAPORE DESIGN EXHIBITION

2005.9.2　 Text: Yurie Hatano

EXPO 2005 AICHI gathered about 120 nations. On August 16th, towards the end of the expo, one of most popular pavilions Singapore pavilion started exhibiting "Design Stories". This exhibition was a project of the Desig...

TOKYO NIGHT CURUSING

2005.9.2　 Text: CAVAI

At Gallery Speak For in Daikanyama, there was an exhibition "Tokyo Night Curusing!" The word "curusing" is a combined word from curation and cruising. The exhibition was curated by Yen. He is a graffiti artist and a t...

MVRDV KM3: PROPOSALS FOR CHINESE CITIES

2005.8.4　 Text: Wong Joon Ian

What can one of Europe's smallest countries teach one of the world's largest about designing urban centres? Quite a bit, if you are to take Dutch architecture firm MVRDV's theses on Chinese cities seriously. MVDRV,...

KULTUROS TVARTAS 2005

2005.8.4　 Text: Emanuelis Ryklys

On August 19th - 20th days of year 2005 the third open-air festival Kulturos tvartas 2005 will take place in Lentvaris. The participants came to festival not only from Lithuania, but from UK, France, Finland, Latvia a...

GARRETT CHOW “NIKE WINDRUNNER”

2005.8.4　 Text: Ania Markham

Last year I interviewed Garrett Chow who was a member of the street art crew, London Police, who have since disbanded. Garrett is now establishing himself as a stand-alone artist (he already has a successful career in...

ADD ON 20 HOHENMETER

2005.8.4　 Text: Christina Merl

On Wallensteinplatz square in Vienna's 20th district you currently have the chance to phantasize about such things in a very special location, a tower-like construction set up by the three architects Peter Fattinger, ...

THE FRYING PAN BOAT PARTY

2005.8.4　 Text: Carlos J. Gomez

With all this heat in the city, it's really hard to think, be inspired or catch up with stuff like culture. For all that matters to New Yorkers is to avoid the heat as much as possible. P.S.1 WarmUp parties in the mid...