Intelligent Naivety

The thing with social media is that most of us are only just beginning to explore how they can work for our sector. We’re all on Flikring and Twittering but do any of us completely understand why? Having the kind of inherrent understanding about how to deploy these media the … Read more

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The latest country to get the MoMA Design Store treatment is a land more known for samba and sunshine than for industrial design. Playing to Brazil’s strengths, the exclusive collection is heavy on handmade objects that take advantage of indigenous natural resources, such as this centipede-inspired fruit bowl composed … Read more

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Some words on retail from the legendary Coolhunter.

We love great retail. We want to find it; we use it as therapy, as entertainment, as an escape, as fantasy. Yet great retail stores are much scarcer than mediocre stores. We all can list many stores that underwhelm us, yet we … Read more

Posted in Retail Trends

At SHOP MCA, books and catalogues by publishers, Phaidon, Steidl, Aperture, and Hatje Cantz offer you ways to deepen your curiosity about contemporary art and culture. Yoko Ono CDs and MCA DENVER’s own music compilations from their MI 5 Program are available for the audiophile along with limited edition … Read more

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This animated sculpture at the BMW Museum in Munich won best in show at the 2009 One Show Design awards.

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An analog social media site. Blending age-old handmade art and 21st century internet-based communication, users can post a drawing to the site and other users can post with their own drawings in response. Love it.

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Glyndebourne opera house’s main restaurant, Middle & Over Wallop, will relaunch later this month, with design by Nigel Coates.

Royal College of Art professor of architecture and interiors Coates has also created 43 Swarovski crystal chandeliers, intended to look like clouds. The ‘cloudeliers’ are assembled from organically shaped geometric crystals.

‘It’s … Read more

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Walk down the stret in Swedish district Drottninggatan this week (yah. in our dreams maybe!) and you’ll see this tidy little marketing initiative by uber cool clothes store Pub.

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This would make us happy.

Stuart Semple at … Read more

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My colleague went to Salon Mobile and all I got was this lousy photo… Ok, so the photos are pretty cool, especially the ones from skitsch.it - a new multi brand design shop in Milan that opened during the fair. Still would have rather been at the party.

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The highstreet of the future is likely to be a very different beast from the highstreet of today. No sooner than Hazel Blears announced the government’s plan to animate recession-hit highstreets by bringing artists into empty spaces(something we wrote about in AI Magazine the week before the initiative was … Read more

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We were very pleased to be recently asked to contribute to ‘After the Crunch’, a new book launched this week by Creative & Cultural Skills and Counterpoint, the British Council think tank.

“In the last ten years the creative industries have become one of the most fashionable and talked-about … Read more

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