Design & Creativity

paf atelier builds radical environments to reconnect design with collective imagination

founded on the principle that collective imagination shapes new physical forms, paris-based paf atelier creates human-centric environments across architecture, scenography, and immersive narrative.

The 90s: Art and Fashion review – this isn’t an exhibition, it’s a magazine spread

Tate Britain, London The Young British Art of the 1990s was brash and macabre but also intelligent and emotional. This breathlessly superficial show reduces it to a stylish pose Jake and Dinos Chapman were dismissed by some even in the 1990s as overgrown adolescents selling shock for its own sake, and yet it is their work that brings this dismally shallow show closest to a moment of depth. Their sculpture Great Deeds Against the Dead, based on a print of Napoleonic war atrocities by Goya, is a display of dismembered, bleeding nude corpses hung on a tree. It asks questions about war and art, the representation of pain, whether art can have a moral purpose. The best British art of the 1990s was like that, coming on as brash, vulgar, macabre, yet also unexpectedly intelligent and emotional. Unfortunately this show is neither. You’d think Tate Britain would want to do justice to a decade in which these Millbank premises played a starring role, staging the Turner prize in the years when bisected cows, concrete houses and elephant dung got the nation arguing. At the start of the 1990s no one thought Britain was a leader in contemporary art. By the millennium, we were better known for new art than new novels.

Bistrò parasol by Paola Lenti

Dezeen Showroom: furniture brand Paola Lenti has designed the delicate Bistrò parasol, which debuted during this year's Milan design week. Bistrò comes in two iterations, either with a flat- or dome-shaped sunshade assembled with or without an inclination joint. The sunshade is available in shades of madras, tamil, herbier or poppy. Complete with rounded or

RGB-Not wallpapers by Carnovsky

Dezeen Showroom: Milan collective Carnovsky has designed the RGB-Not wallpapers, a selection of digitally-printed wallpapers designed as contemporary frescoes. RGB-Not wallpapers play with transparency and overlapping images in a similar way to Carnovsky's original RGB collection, first launched in 2010. The new collection is characterised by a range of colours, from sienna and forest green

Foster + Partners extends Bilbao Fine Arts Museum with bridge-like gallery

British studio Foster + Partners and local architect Luis María Uriarte have expanded the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum in Spain with a 55-metre-long elevated gallery. Named Agravitas, the bridge-like extension sits on large V-shaped columns that straddle the existing museum, not touching the original building fabric. Foster + Partners and Luis María Uriarte designed the

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‘for life is not a spectacle’ barbara kruger wraps tadao ando’s rotunda in monumental texts

the american artist fills the concrete rotunda at the bourse de commerce in paris with text, covering the curved walls, the floor and twenty four display cases in the passage around it.

From a taxi centaur to a harpy who can't fly, discover this digital artist's surprising fantasy world

Edwin Vorng loves the challenge of showing a character’s complex personality visually.

Estúdio Módulo releases designs for Itaú Cultural headquarters in São Paulo

Brazilian architecture practice Estúdio Módulo has released its competition-winning designs for the headquarters of Itaú Cultural, which feature a tall, slender building wrapped in glass and white louvres. The São Paulo-based architectural studio's design for Itaú Cultural, an arts research institute, was selected through a competition involving six firms. The design is meant to "establish

rotating octagonal forms marked with community voices shape queens landmark

developed in collaboration with astoria houses residents, revolving voices combines interactive structures with etched poetry to create a public space that shifts between everyday gathering and community storytelling.

Priceless book designed by Dali stolen in France

A book designed by Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali was stolen from an art museum in central France, prosecutors said on Monday. The "Book of the Apocalypse", featuring a cover made of bronze, was taken from the contemporary art centre in the town of Issoire, the prosecutor's office in the city of Clermont-Ferrand said, describing the piece as "highly valuable".