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www.e-flux.com/projects/utopia/index.htmlA poster should be instant, a visual declaration that makes an impact. The site Utopia Station, designed by Anna Arbuckle, has an archive of 158 posters and is growing. Visually,
Inspired
Mike Dempsey – Studio Dempsey
Hetherington’s bravery was something else
My short note (in the Editor’s blog, www.designweek.co.uk, 21 April) doesn’t do Tim Hetherington’s life justice. Tim [a war photographer who was killed in Misrata, Libya last month, aged 40]
The All England tennis club should re-string its rackets
Looking at Wimbledon tennis club’s home page, I wondered why that awful drawing of the strings on the rackets had been kept (News, DW 21 April). It bugs me every
Voxpop
Which festival are you most looking forward to this year and why?
Profile: Young Kim
Microsoft hardware group’s industrial design manager tells John Stones about the technology giant’s move to a more design-focused approach and how its highly collaborative culture encourages cross-pollination of ideas
A tidal wave of stuff
With another Milan furniture fair behind us, and another deluge of new products on display, Max Fraser argues the case for slamming the brakes on ’the consumption machine we’ve created’
Drawings revisited
Turning illustrations into animated films brings the opportunity of reimagining characters, delving deeper into their worlds and developing new dimensions. Yolanda Zappaterra explores the illustration-to-animation process
Alien dreams
We all know what space aliens look like. They have green complexions, huge craniums, massive almond eyes and tiny, lipless mouths. William R Leigh forged this image for Cosmopolitan in
101 designs National Art Pass
Consultancy 101 is working on the website and app for the Art Fund’s National Art Pass, having designed the pass and developed the campaign to launch it. The Art Fund
The Other Media creates new V&A website
The Victoria & Albert Museum is unveiling a new website today, designed by The Other Media, which will present collections as an encyclopedic resource and offer a more visual online
Mather & Co designs new Chelsea FC museum
The Chelsea FC Museum is being redesigned by Mather & Co in a building next to the club’s ground, Stamford Bridge, to make it ’highly interactive’. Mather & Co was
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