Farshid Moussavi in Conversation
Architect Farshid Moussavi will be joining Blueprint’s assistant editor Peter Kelly in conversation next Tuesday at Asia House, London. Iranian-born Moussavi is co-founder of award-winning architecture practice Foreign Office Architects (FOA), professor of architecture at Harvard University and author of the books The Function of Ornament and The Function of Form.
FOA’s past work includes the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Campaign for Drawing’s 10th Anniversary
The Campaign for Drawing’s, Now We Are Ten: 10th Anniversary exhibition has opened at the Idea Generation Gallery in Shoreditch, London. The exhibition shows the unique work produced by some of the UK’s best-known and up-and-coming artists, illustrators and cartoonists since The Campaign for Drawing’s inauguration in October 2000.
Sixty new works have been donated for the [...]
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 [...]
Varnishing Day at the RA Summer Show
Adrian Friend of Friend and Company set off with duster and a bottle of Windolene to attend a quaint event known as Varnishing Day, exclusively for exhibitors to the Royal Academy’s Summer Show. Here he describes the experience and suggests some highlights of the Architecture Room.
The opportunity to attend Varnishing Day at the Royal Academy Summer [...]
Last chance to win tickets for the Chelsea Flower Show!
Blueprint is media partner for the Perfume Garden by architect Laurie Chetwood and horticulturalist Patrick Collins, which will be a highlight of the Chelsea Flower Show (19-23 May).
Based on the original recipe for a perfume created for Queen Elizabeth I, the Perfume garden will be a reminder of the period when horticulture first became fashionable. The Elizabethan [...]
Zona Tortona 2009: What not to miss
Next week sees the 48th year of biggest event in the global design calendar: the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. Around 88,000 visitors are expected to pour into the area around Via Tortona in the southwest of Milan during this week of the Salone del Mobile. Originally an ad-hoc happening, Zona Tortona Design – [...]
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 [...]
Zona Tortona @ Milan Design Week 2009
ZONA TORTONA DESIGN 2009
22-27 April, Milan
www.zonatortona.com
It is estimated that 88,000 visitors will pour into the area around Via Tortona in the south west of Milan during the week of the Salone del Mobile. Originally an ad-hoc occurrence, Zona Tortona Design is now organised as a major event for which Blueprint is media partner. Coordinated by Design Partners, [...]
Design Your Own Cabanon
Designed as a birthday gift to his wife Yvonne, and intended to be a low-cost spot to spend their summer holidays as a couple, the cabanon is the most personal of Le Corbusier’s projects. It was located just down the hill from his one-time friend Eileen Gray’s villa E.1027, (the pair fell out when he [...]
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 [...]
Spiekermann’s Corner
Next Monday evening, renowned typographer and Blueprint columnist Erik Spiekermann will join in conversation with the designers of his east London house, Ullmayer Sylvester Architects at the Royal Academy, London. It is the third and final event in the Two Stories series of talks organised by Blueprint, which look at the ways in which [...]
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 [...]
