| Issue #4 |
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| May - October 2011 |
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| Features |
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| My London |
| Maya Dvash |
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| In the aftermath of last month's riots, the London Design Festival will be opening next week, celebrating the uniqueness and centrality of the city in the world of design with a wide range of events, performances, and exhibitions, of which we have selected five that you won't want to miss. |
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| Interviews |
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| Covering His Tracks |
| Maya Dvash |
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| Club Silencio, a new members-only club, has recently opened in Paris. It was designed by renowned film director David Lynch and Raphael Navot, a young Israeli designer who gets his projects in surprising ways. |
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| Wheels and mirrors: automata and robots as metaphysical machines |
| Patrick J. Gyger |
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| What is it with the automata these days? Those relics of a technological era we left behind more than a hundred years ago, aren't they obsolete? It is true the story of artificial beings is old: it charts the influence of technology across human history. But the meme of mechanical beings didn't catch on until the principle of Philosophia ancilla theologiae was superseded and philosophers assumed their role as interpreters of the most wonderful miracles of technology. |
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| Designing New Materials | Graduates 2011 |
| Tal Amit |
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| It seems that the search for new materiality is eternal. The division is usually clear, In fashion you study textiles. In graphic design you study paper. In industrial design you study plastics. Each department and its materials. But when you mix materials and departments, the results are fascinating little surprises. |
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| Features |
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| Utopia of Success |
| Maya Dvash |
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| The two exceptionally stylish designers Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin are Studio Formafantasma – italian designers based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The collaboration between the two started during their BA in communication design. |
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