PLACE
Situated on the Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat, the former Jan Swammerdam Institute (JSI) looks sort of sleepy from the outside but inside there is a veritable hive of activity, this being the home of SMART Project ...
PEOPLE
It's a cold rainy afternoon and I enter the traditional bar 36 Billares in Buenos Aires downtown. He's there, sitting at one of the tables, close to the window and just before I come in, he gazes at his watch with a s...
PLACE
Zurich/Switzerland is not just birthplace of the Dada Art movement but an important place for the world domination of the classic constructivist graphic design (think Helvetica and the grid system) and home for many s...
HAPPENING
When did you last have your favourite cocktail mixed by a robot? Do robots have anything in common with alcohol, anyway? Robots can achieve a lot, however, they are hardly ever used for hedonistic cultura...
HAPPENING
Though the name Daniel Libeskind has become synonymous with large-scale public commissions, it wasn't always so. Before the Jewish Museum was built in Berlin, Libeskind was known only as an academic architect without ...
THINGS
Becoming self employed has been a big issue for the last two years. One reason is, that a lot of people around me have quit thier agency-jobs and started to find new ways of working, the other reason is that German po...
PEOPLE
This month I've decided to make an interview to an interesting Milan based group of multimedia artists that are all under the name of Otolab. They make visual video mixing and multimedia exhibitions in many Italian cl...
HAPPENING
The third edition of Tokyo Zone has taken place in Paris in from October 23rd to 26th in prestigious places such as Bibliotheque Nationale de France or Centre Georges Pompidou and more independent places like Batofar ...
HAPPENING
Hidden Art Open Studios (HAOS), an annual event for designers based in East London took place on two weekends, 22nd and 23rd, 29th - 30th November. An initiative to bring together the designers with small businesses...
PEOPLE
A survey of paintings by 32-year old artist Laura Owens, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is currently showing at the Art Museum of Milwaukee about ninety miles north of Chicago. Laura Owe...
PEOPLE
A few years ago I picked up a copy of Matmos' self-titled first album at Aquarius Records in San Francisco. Or was it Amoeba? I can't quite recall. I bought the album at a time when I was indiscriminately buying ridic...
THINGS
Brasil Inspired has recently been released from Die Gestalten Verlag. The book is filled with art from all over the world, with a Brazilian theme. It was compiled by Brazilian artist Nando Costa, who was profiled by S...
