23.11.2009 by Hettie
Three issues back to back – November, December, January – by the time we came to brainstorm the third one, we needed a mountain of sticky pastries in the middle of the table to get our poor, tired, brains kick-started. After all the attention they got for their Japanese […] Continue
10.11.2009 by Hettie
Back in September, we talked with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg about her RCA graduation project on bacteria hacking and synthetic biology. She’s barely stopped moving since then – she’s currently working on a new research project in Australia, but before she disappeared off to the other side of the […] Continue
19.10.2009 by Hettie
There was a day last week when girls outnumbered boys at The Word office, and we finally managed to get our new favourite lady, Cate Le Bon, playing on the stereo. Her first album Me Oh My is an addictive exercise in dark folk rock – vocal sweetness measured […] Continue
12.10.2009 by Hettie
An outlying Amsterdam housing project is now the home to 800 square metres of ornamental friezes designed by Studio Job. Decorating the façade of 5 large new buildings commissioned as part of a development by Far West, the designs feature a rich collection of the Studio’s iconic graphics, […] Continue
12.10.2009 by Hettie
Christien Meindertsma’s project to discover all the products made from a single pig (the titular 05049) ended up taking her 3 years, and included such unexpected products as wine, carbonless paper, zinc, medicine capsules, paint, cigarettes, toothpaste, heart valves and train brakes. The products were all exhibited at an […] Continue
02.10.2009 by Hettie
On the last day of Design September we dashed between presentations from the dons of the European design award scene and talks from product packaging pack before sitting down for a speedy cappuccino with a very candy striped Karim Rashid It was the closing event of Design September – […] Continue
25.09.2009 by Hettie
We asked Rena, our latest intern who has since left us, to go up to Amsterdam to party it up with the city's cool cats for the opening of Puma's A Kinda Gang. Here's her account of how the night went down: "Puma kicked off the launch to their newly-released […] Continue
25.09.2009 by Hettie
We rediscovered 10 years of old Showstudio projects at the opening party of the exhibition at Somerset House on Monday; there were plenty of highpoints, including Alexander McQueen turning a bridegroom into a bride for Transformer and Julie Verhoven’s erotic interactive wallpaper, and we loved […] Continue
24.09.2009 by Hettie
In Praise of Shadows is a concise meditation on light curated by Jane Withers. 20 works are displayed inside an existing gallery at the V&A; nestled in among the ceramics and inlayed furniture they provided the only illumination; visitors are given torches at the entrance so that they can read […] Continue
