Tad Carpenter’s Sunday Suns is “half therapy and half visual journalism”

In 2015, Carpenter – who runs brand studio Carpenter Collective together with his wife – found he was having a difficult time. Unsure whether he could attribute it to the “24/7 scrolling culture”, career burnout, or “the current toxic America”, he couldn’t help but question his creative output. “As a human, I was feeling overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, off, all of...

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Do Gender-Neutral Pronouns Need Their Own Glyphs?

As gender-neutral pronouns become more commonplace in spoken language, they haven’t yet found a secure perch in written text. With the growing embrace of fluid and nonbinary gender identities in Western culture, is it time to introduce a new character on our keyboards? Plenty has been written and debated on the perceived visual gendering of typefaces (big/heavy = masculine, curly/decorative/light...

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Philippe Starck encabeza el jurado del concurso de diseño Andreu World 2021.

Tras el aplazamiento de fecha debido a la pandemia, finalmente el concurso se celebrará este año 2021. El plazo de inscripción termina el 26 de noviembre y, como viene siendo costumbre, contará con un jurado de lujo. En esta edición estará integrado por Paola Antonelli, Philippe Starck, Rafael de La-Hoz, Chantal Hamaide y Brandon Gien. Nuevas […] La entrada Philippe Starck...

WPP building online «Minecraft world» featuring all its global offices in one place

Global communications group WPP is creating a digital campus in computer game Minecraft featuring replicas of its offices around the world, allowing employees to visit other buildings without leaving their desks. The «Minecraft world» will allow employees to attend events, launch projects and visit more than 19 offices, according to Colin Macgadie of BDG Architecture + Design who is helping...

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Hertel & Klarhoefer firma Soul, una butaca para marcar época

Hertel & Klarhoefer, el multipremiado estudio de diseño industrial berlinés fundado en 1999 por los arquitectos germanos Peter Christian Hertel y Sebastian Klarhoefer, es el responsable de Soul, una butaca ligera de líneas elegantes y refinados acabados que busca postularse como una solución viable para una gran variedad de espacios y necesidades. La entrada Hertel & Klarhoefer firma Soul, una...