National Museum of Qatar by Philip JodidioLast year saw a bumper crop of impressive museum unveilings — David Adjaye’s Ruby City in Texas, Addenda Architects’ Bauhaus Museum Dessau — but the most spectacular had to be the National Museum of Qatar. Jean Nouvel’s sprawling “desert rose,” an 11-gallery masterpiece composed of hundreds of interlaced disks, […]
The forced relocation of the northernmost city in Sweden is more than a gigantic architectural project. It is also a test for a society at the crossroads. (Places Journal – Gideon Fink Shapiro) Another key work, Global Kiruna, tracks the journey of iron ore, via trains and ships and factories, from the depths of the […]
Get a copy of the now out of print and rare book African Modernism, or many other items at the Design Yard Sale. The Design Yard Sale is selling and auctioning creative works by designers to raise funds for the Bail Project and Colloqate Design, organizations that fight against systemic, anti-Black racism. It’s time we call […]
Broadcast from ArkDes, Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design, you’re invited to a 360° tour of the exhibition Kiruna Forever. Kiruna – a city in the northernmost part of Sweden – is experiencing one of the biggest urban transformation projects in recent history. The city is being relocated by three kilometres due to […]
This survey of book design represents perhaps the longest-standing legacy in American graphic design. Beginning in 1923, the Fifty Books of the Year competition was a yearly mainstay of AIGA. As dust jackets became more common, covers were added to the competition. From 2012–2018 Design Observer hosted the competition with AIGA through a joint venture. […]
Got Your Back livens up the working from home environment With online business meetings surging in popularity, Dutch creative agency Staat has gathered a group of established and emerging creatives to create virtual backdrops, available to use for free in a wide range of video conference applications such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. We’re particularly fond […]
The free platform features artwork donated by the likes of Iwan Baan, Lennard Kok, Timo Kuilder, Hugo & Marie and the Rijksmuseum, ranging from epic to calm, via the slightly creepy. Source: Make your video call background much, much cooler with Got Your Back
Bjarke Ingels Group Completes a Spiraling Museum for Audemars PiguetIn Swiss town Le Brassus, the architect creates a surprising shape for the new Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet, which is tentatively slated to open to the public on June 25 Source: Bjarke Ingels Designs a Spiraling Museum for Luxury Watch Brand Audemars Piguet | Architectural Digest