Urban Utopias
A city of artificial hills, with towers peaking above the clouds in permanent sunshine, is the vision drawn by Anna Boldina, winner of Blueprint and the Royal Academy’s Paper City competition. Boldina, who is an urban design graduate from Moscow, has lived in London for one year and was inspired to draw her idea after seeing [...]
Blueprint/Claystation Onepiece Design Winners
Blueprint and Claystation are pleased to announce the results of the Onepiece chair design competition. The Blueprint/Claystation stand at 100% Design (above) brought the design process to life as visitors sat on specially designed Onepiece chairs and created their entries. The stand was a hive of activity at the centre of the show with visitors stopping to create a design and meet the blueprint team.
Blueprint Awards 2009: The Winners
The 14th annual Blueprint Awards were announced at 100% Design London on 24 September 2009. A panel of industry judges selected the shortlist plaque winners and whittled their selection down to four overall winners:
Blueprint at Design is Simply Complex
Design Is Simply Complex at The Wapping Project
Blueprint is currently part of a living installation at The Wapping Project from 4 to 27 September. The magazines editorial and design team and will work alongside three design studios while you watch, buy and interrogate. For Design is Simply Complex, Blueprint is designing its November issue in [...]
UK Launch for Naoto Fukasawa’s Plus Minus Zero
Blueprint is media partner for the launch of Naoto Fukasawa’s sought-after Plus Minus Zero collection of household products.
For an industrial designer who made his name in the relative anonymity of technological products, Fukasawa (pictured above) has been extremely successful in his transition to designing furniture, housewares, lighting and accessories for some of the most well known design-led [...]
Paper City: Urban Utopias
The Royal Academy of Arts will be hosting our exhibition, Paper City: Urban Utopias from next Friday, 31 July. It is an opportunity for us to share the extraordinary images that artists, architects, illustrators and designers have contributed to our back-page ‘Paper City’, since its introduction in September 2006.
Contributors, including artist Emily Allchurch, cartoonist Steven [...]
You’re invited to a picnic!
Blueprint Picnic
From 5.30pm, Friday 3 July
Bermondsey Square, London SE1
Challenge the hyper-regulation of public space and celebrate the launch of Blueprint’s August issue. A picnic, with food and entertainment, will take place in one of London’s newest squares, designed by East Architects. In partnership with the Manifesto Club’s Freedom Summer.
Food: New restaurant, bar and boutique bakery, Del’Aziz [...]
The Manifesto Club’s Freedom Summer
Blueprint is taking part in Freedom Summer, a series of events across Europe organised by the Manifesto Club. The programme, which runs until September, aims to take a stand against the over-regulation of everyday life, and celebrate autonomous spaces for people to collaborate, discuss, or just enjoy life. Events range from debates on booze bans [...]
High profile line-up announced for Swarovski Blueprint Debate
A high-profile panel of speakers will address the question, Can Imagination Save the City? at the Swarovski Blueprint debate in Milan next week:
Amanda Levete, director of Amanda Levete Architects and former partner at Future Systems
Arik Levy, designer, artist and creator of Osmosis for Swarovski Crystal Palace 2009
Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, former editor [...]
Tracey Neuls’ Pop-Up Shop
Last night we celebrated the launch of shoe designer Tracey Neuls’ first ever retrospective with a party in her pop-up showroom in west London. Blueprint is media partner for Neuls’ exhibition, which spans her work from the last ten years. It was a unique evening, with guests packing out the venue on Exhibition Road, and [...]
Playing (in) the Pipes
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The Estonian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale was a 63m long, 1.2m diameter pipe, which ran between the German and Russian pavilions, an act which highlighted the construction of the Nord Stream pipe, which will connect Vybord in Russia with Greifswald in Germany, although the exact route has to be decided [...]
Blueprint Open Studios – Tomoko Azumi
Open Studio 6.30pm Wednesday 15th August
This month will see Tomoko [...]
The Urbantine Project
Calling all young architects: Tent London’s Urbantine project is looking for bright ideas, and original thinking to produce a temporary work environment for the 21st century. A collaboration with Workspace Group, the competition is aimed at emerging architects and designers, with a brief is to design a structure that responds to issues of rapid change [...]
Blueprint Open Studios – Mother
The third Blueprint Open Studio will be hosted by advertising agency Mother London at its Shoreditch lair. Rumour has it that the founding members named themselves Mother in a tactical ploy to avoid being bad-mouthed by press or competitors – a canny move that certainly seems to have worked. Since its inception in 1996, the [...]
Blueprint Open Studios
Blueprint Open Studios is a new series of informal evening events hosted by leading designers and architects in their own studios. The events are an opportunity for you to listen to designers talk about their work and get a sneak preview of forthcoming projects. Blueprint Open Studios will take place once a month and places [...]
