design
The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900, V&ASaturday, 02 April 2011
A cult suggests unhealthy worship, and there’s more than a whiff of that in the heady decadence of the V&A’s latest art and design blockbuster, The Cult of Beauty. This is an exhibition which examines how the influence of a small clique of... Read more... |
Film Gallery: Bill Gold's PosterWorksFriday, 12 November 2010
Although there are thematic links between many of the movie posters designed by Bill Gold between 1942 and 2003, especially in the talismanic use of telephones (Dial M for Murder, Klute, The Front Page) and guns (Casablanca, Deliverance, the Dirty... Read more... |
Ralph Koltai, from theatre designer to sculptorWednesday, 22 September 2010
Koltai’s stage designs have been seen in countless operas and theatre productions around the world, and yielded many awards. Of Hungarian extraction, he was born in Berlin in 1924 and granted entry to the UK in 1939. He served with British... Read more... |
My Summer Reading: Theatre Designer Tobias HoheiselWednesday, 25 August 2010
Third in our summer book extracts series is the theatre designer Tobias Hoheisel, whose designs for Glyndebourne Opera's Janáček productions remain iconic, and more recently designed English National Opera's Boris Godunov.Born in Frankfurt, Hoheisel... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Ray Lowry - London CallingWednesday, 16 June 2010
It’s hard to believe that it’s 30 years since the release of The Clash's London Calling, an album that sounds as vital, immediate and relevant today as it did then. Yet there are probably people who remain more familiar with London Calling’s iconic... Read more... |
The Genius of Design: Designs for Living, BBC TwoSunday, 16 May 2010
Does form always have to follow function? Is ornamentation really such a heinous crime? Or is Modernism itself the enemy of the people? The second part of this excellent five-part series – fab archive footage, great interviews with designers young... Read more... |
Production Gallery: Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser at the Royal Opera HouseSaturday, 03 April 2010
As co-directors of opera, Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser's fidelity to each other's artistic vision is one thing. Their devotion to Rossini is also relatively unusual. Their loyalty to and faith in their designers is almost as deep. In this... Read more... |
Ron Arad: Restless, Barbican GalleryTuesday, 23 February 2010
Like Philippe Starck, whose Alessi tripod lemon squeezer is a bit like an evil-looking Louise Bourgeois spider, Ron Arad emerged in the Eighties as something of a “rock‘n’roll” designer. It’s a label that’s stuck, as has its sexy variant “post-punk... Read more... |
Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World, Tate ModernMonday, 08 February 2010
Modernist art movements are a lot like totalitarian regimes. They produce their declaratory manifestos, send forth their declamatory edicts, and, before you know it, a Year Zero mentality prevails: the past must be declared null and void. Seeking to... Read more... |
Vox Pop: The V&A - Musical Instruments or Fashion?Thursday, 28 January 2010
The Victoria and Albert Museum intends on 22 February to disperse its collection of musical instruments to other venues, to allow more room for fashion and textile exhibits. Conductor Christopher Hogwood and composer Oliver Knussen are two more... Read more... |
Design for Life, BBC2Monday, 14 September 2009
Design for Life is a new BBC2 series about the philosophy of Philippe Starck, he of the iconic ‘space rocket’ lemon-juicer, in the form of an Apprentice-style reality show. It was also an intriguing insight into the control exercised by producers of... Read more... |
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