Monthly Archive for November, 2010

Aga Khan Award for Architecture: Wadi Hanifa Wetlands Read more: Aga Khan Award for Architecture: Wadi Hanifa Wetlands

Published on November 30, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From Andrew Michler at Inhabitat…

Water is the lifeblood of sustainable habitation, and no more so is it crucial than in desert societies. One of this year’s winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture is not a building complex, but remarkably, an entire ecosystem. Located in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, is the Wadi Hanifa watershed, a 4,000 square kilometer drainage that has become key to the capital’s environmental sustainability. After many years of neglect, a long term reclamation plan was put underway, and is now being recognized worldwide for its size and aesthetic. The safe use of the river was one of the most visually compelling design features, but it was water reclamation, habitat restoration and industrial clean up throughout the river basin that really exemplifies how profound the project’s scope is. More…

Rehabilitation of the City Walls of Logroño by Pesquera Ulargui Arquitectos

Published on November 30, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From Dezeen…

Built in the begining of the XVI century, this fragment of wall is Logroño’s most remarcable defensive construction. Its quality and its detailed ornaments bring to the present the wealthiest period of Logroño’s history. We have developed two little interventions trying to habilitate this forgotten symbolic space into two exhibition galleries. These interventions have been realised in two phases. First of all, the monument has been restored following the usual process: preliminary archaeological studies, repair of existing diseases and rebuild of ruined parts. On the other hand, as a consequence of scientific studies and geometry, showrooms have been understood as independent prefabricated buildings introduced at the very last moment. More…

Stefano Marzano, CEO of Philips Design, speaking at Rome Design Conference

Published on November 30, 2010 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Stefano Marzano is CEO and Chief Creative Director, Philips Design, the international in-house design group at Philips responsible for all design work within the company. He’ll be presenting his plenary presentation on ‘Services’ under the conference’s theme, Design: The Useful and Futile, at The International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, 2-4 February 2011 at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Both Stefano Marzano and Philips Design are widely recognized as being in the forefront of the design profession.

Stefano is a regular speaker at international design, business and technology conferences, at which he addresses current and emerging issues in design and design management. He has also published widely on design topics, being the author or editor of a number of books describing the work of Philips Design and the humanistic philosophy on which it is based. These books include Television at the Crossroads (1994), Vision of the Future (1996), Creating Value by Design: Thoughts and Facts (1998), City, People, Light (1997), Past Tense, Future Sense: Competing through Creativity – 80 Years of Design at Philips (2005), and (with Emile Aarts) The New Everyday: Views on Ambient Intelligence (2003). More…

Cumulus President, Christian Guellerin, to speak in Rome on design research

Published on November 29, 2010 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Christian Guellerin is the President of the Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. He’ll be presenting his plenary presentation on ‘Research’ under the conference’s theme, Design: The Useful and Futile, at The International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, 2-4 February 2011 at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

The international network Cumulus – www.cumulusassociation.org – gathers 165 universities of Design, Art and Media worldwide.

He is the Director of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique, France – www.lecolededesign.com – for 10 years. L’Ecole de design Nantes atlantique is a member of the Conference des Grandes Ecoles, a network of the most prestigious French schools and of the Research Association UNAM at the University of Nantes, Angers, Le Mans. More…

Cardon Copy by Cardon Webb

Published on November 6, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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From Dezeen…

New York graphic designer Cardon Webb collects fliers and hand-written notices from his neighbourhood and replaces them with his own re-designed versions. The new posters are then displayed on the street alongside the originals.

Cardon Copy, takes the vernacular of self-distributed fliers and tear offs we have all seen in our neighborhoods. It involves hijacking these unconsidered fliers and redesigning them, over powering their message with a new visual language. I then replace the original with the redesign in its authentic environment.

I started Cardon Copy as an experiment to demonstrate the power of visual communication. It also gives me a venue to create and express myself, allowing me to combine my art, design, and typographic ideas. By considering, then altering, such things as color, composition, image and type to a common street flier with a message as simple as, “I lost my cat”, the transformation is interesting. More…