Artichoke, September 2011
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Comment
Angry!
I’m angry … I’m very, very angry. On TV last night was a minor celebrity spouting inoffensively about the topic at hand and there, on the …
News
News Flash
Selected news stories from Artichoke 36.
News scope
A selection of news stories from Artichoke 36.
Designex
Innovative stands, new products and interesting topics for discussion – these were the mainstays of this year’s Designex.
Dulux Colour and Fly Forbo award winners
The winners of the 2011 Dulux Colour and Fly Forbo awards.
News from Artichoke 36
A collection of news stories from Artichoke 36.
Product
Products from Artichoke 36
The editor’s favourite products from Artichoke 36.
Library
Sustainable and multi-purpose materials
It’s a burgeoning science, but creating environmentally efficient alternative materials has more importance today than ever before. This book aims to connect the research and …
Design as Politics
Design theorist Tony Fry looks at how flawed contemporary politics are not dealing with current sustainability issues.
Hella Jongerius: Misfit
This monograph tells the story of Dutch product designer Hella Jongerius and her experimental career.
Urban Interior: informal explorations, interventions and occupations
This book describes and discusses projects that border on the urban and interior realms.
Features
Milan 2011 Salone Del Mobile
As the design world anticipates Milan 2012, Penny Craswell reflects on this year’s furniture fair.
Benjamin Hubert
Working across a range of products and materials, British designer Benjamin Hubert was prolific at the 2011 Milan Furniture Fair.
Hotel Palazzo Segreti
Using contrasting light, colour and materials, Brizzi and Riefenstahl Studio created a “palace of secrets.”
Paul Cocksedge’s Milan installation
Flos, BMW and Cocksedge created an installation all about a trick of the light at the 2011 Milan Furniture Fair.
Furniture highlights from Milan in 2011
Timber was teamed with whites and greys – or with bright colours – at the Milan International Furniture Fair in 2011, with an emphasis on materiality and form.
Salone Satellite 2011
Salone Satellite is a space to see some of the best emerging design talent, thanks to curator Marva Griffin.
Targetti + Louis Poulsen Spazio Luce
Cecil Balmond’s creation for the new Targetti and Louis Poulsen showroom is based on fractal geometries.
Lighting – Milan’s Euroluce exhibition
Milan’s Euroluce exhibition displayed new shapes, technologies and references to the past as seen in 2011.
The Ludlow Formation
Taste, touch, sight and sound create a lasting impression at the Ludlow Formation by Maddison Architects.
People
Jaime Hayón
What makes the work of Spanish designer Jaime Hayón so distinctive? We posit some theories after meeting him in Milan.
Fernando and Humberto Campana
Experimental with forms and materials, these Brazilian designers owe much to their collaboration with Edra.
Tord Boontje
Boontje talks about how sewing and embroidery inspired his chair, stool and light for Moroso – Stitched.
Report
Ventura Lambrate 2011
In only its second year, Ventura Lambrate is gaining momentum as destination for emerging and cutting-edge design.
Projects
Newmarket Hotel
A functional, inviting venue, complete with highly considered spatial planning and details cherrypicked from history.
Dee Why Hotel
SJB designed the interior to suit the local beach culture with references to its namesake – an iconic rock ’n’ roll venue.
Balfour Hotel
Coop Creative has created a chic hotel in this converted Queenslander without losing the feeling of home.
Sheikh Zayed Bridge
A fourteen year tale of a futuristic architect crafting a new icon for one of the world’s most forward-thinking cities.
Downer EDI
Hassell has created an open, transparent workplace for Downer EDI.
Scan
Grill’d
With recycled timber, paste-up graphics and urban texture, this Grill’d restaurant is certainly “not your usual burger joint.”
Pony
A striking glass shopfront and an undulating timber ceiling create warmth and life at Pony.
Xilo
Xilo’s founder Jim Barbounis and chief designer Dan Jenkins reveal their love for all things timber.
Coca-Cola and Emeco
Emeco has teamed up with Coca-Cola to produce a new indestructible chair, this time made from recycled plastic.
Design thinking in the beehive
Rooftop Honey is trying to increase bee numbers by installing beehives and collecting honey on Melbourne rooftops.
Gregor Kregar
Slovenian-born, Auckland-based Gregor Kregar is a sculptor whose recent works explore repetition and reflection.
Colin Seah
Colin Seah talks about experiential architecture, which he achieves under the mantra “question, disturb and redefine.”
Riddel Architecture Studio
Riddel Architecture’s new studio in Brisbane respects the original 1950s architecture with an ethos of minimal interference.
Rockingham Hospital
Hames Sharley and Silver Thomas Hanley make sense of a complex brief without compromising aesthetics in this hospital.
Chassis chair
Stefan Diez’s chair for Wilkhahn, Chassis, has a saddle-like seat welded to a frame of sheet metal.
Review
New interiors for Crumpler stores
Ryan Russell’s designs for four new Crumpler store interiors use materials from the Crumpler bags in unexpected ways.
A Day in the Life
A Day in the Life: Vince Frost
What makes a design studio tick? We ask Vince Frost from Frost Design.