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Garden variety – V&A Dundee hosts ambitious design exhibition
V&A Dundee’s new exhibition starts before you get up to the first-floor gallery. As visitors enter the main hall of Kengo Kuma’s 2018 waterfront building, they’re confronted by 11 big white flowers dangling from the …
Potatoes Aren’t Irish! They’re 100% Peruvian, and We’ve Got the Receipts!
Ask someone where the potato comes from, and, odds are, they’ll say Ireland. Blame the Great Famine of the 1800s, or the country’s famous shepherd’s-pie comfort dish. But the true origin of the world’s most …
design/leader: Beardwood&Co. founder Julia Beardwood
Julia Beardwood is founder of Beardwood&Co. The New York-based branding and strategy agency works with B2C and B2B clients like Danone, Pottery Barn and Rabble Wine. Design What would your monograph be called? Illuminating Possibilities. …
Cholita Style Just Hit Hollywood Thanks to Dany Escalera Zambrana and ‘Cholita Takes L.A.’
When the creators of the new short film “Cholita Takes L.A.,” a short film by Minivela, were casting the wardrobe for their main character, a Bolivian luchadora-slash-fashionista dropped into East L.A., they didn’t run to …
Industrial Design Case Study: Fluid Design Updates Beurer’s Grooming Devices
Beurer is a German manufacturer of personal care products. When they needed to update their line of men’s grooming devices, they turned to Munich-based industrial design firm Fluid Design. Beurer MenCare The Challenge Crafting the …
The big design winners at this year’s D&AD awards
W Conran Design’s graphic design for last year’s Paris Olympics has won D&AD’s highest accolade. The Black Pencil is reserved for “truly groundbreaking work” and some years none are given out. But this year’s juries …
La Chancla: Older Than Time, Scarier Than Zeus, and Apparently Used by Aphrodite
Move over Zeus. Take a seat, Hercules. There’s a new ancient weapon trending online, and it’s not a thunderbolt or a lion skin. It’s la chancla. Yes, that legendary slipper of doom we all remember …
Romania, Witches & a Frog’s Behind? The Bizarre Origins of ‘Sana Sana, Colita de Rana’ Explained
Just yesterday, I overheard my daughter comforting her friend by gently rubbing her head and saying, “Sana Sana, culito de rana.” My daughter was serious. Her friend was confused. You see, Dahlia had told Cristina, …
SCRUTINY | COC President’s Council Season Opener Showcases New Voices
COC President’s Council Season Opening Event (Photo: Joseph So) Jane Archibald, sop.; Simone McIntosh, mezzo; Samuel Chan, bar.; Rachael Kerr, piano; Liz Upchurch, piano. Isadore and Rosalie Sharp City Room, Four Seasons Centre for …