Architect Manuel Cervantes reveals building-site photographs of an almost completed house in Mexico City: “architecture is not static, it is a process.”

Planned by the conceptual artist 60 years ago, the posthumous work transforms a great monument with a glistening cloak. It feels like a liberating moment for the city.

Not so long ago, it was impossible to go through life without speaking, in some way, to a variety of strangers in your life…

The 20th century is full of examples of the false promise of suburban living. The answer to our current problems isn’t to run away from the metropolis. Rather, we need to build better social support systems for people in cities so that urban life becomes healthier, safer and more sustainable.

Simulitis is not covid-19, and these simulations vastly oversimplify the complexity of real life. Yet just as simulitis spread through the networks of bouncing balls on your screen, covid-19 is spreading through our human networks…

Over time, globalisation will gradually have less to do with exporting material goods across borders and much more to do with trading services and ideas. This will have important consequences for workers, communities and the health of national economies.

In a long interview for C41 Magazine, brothers and designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec re-examined their work in light of this question, asking whether the lifecycle and durability of a design object should still be considered such an important value today.

Worldbuilding as a visionary, collaborative practice has come of age. From planetary designs to pop culture, architect Hashim Sarkis, filmmaker Hiyao Miyazaki, and the Black Panther universe provide critical tools, methods, and inspiration to build future worlds.

In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. Using a motorized camera mounted on the back of a pickup truck, he methodically photographed all of the buildings on each side of the street. He assembled the photos in the artists‘ book Every Building on the Sunset Strip, which challenged how people thought about Los Angeles, art and photography

The word, the emotional style, and that whole flavor of cultural cachet remains ascendant after more than half a century.

Wikipedia invites everyone to read, contribute, and partner with them to keep knowledge alive. Wherever your interests lead you, and to whichever project you choose to support, everything Wikipedia does is working towards one goal.

His iconic identity for the 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics—“’60s op-art kinetic typography,” as Wyman calls it—exists as a pinnacle of environmental and branding design and was credited with reintroducing Mexican visual culture back into the nation’s design vocabulary. Watch the video!

In such uncertain and uneasy times, and with so much injustice, hate and intolerance threatening the world, don’t we have more serious things to focus on than the escapades of that feline girl-figure Hello Kitty?

The “Histomap,” created by John B. Sparks, was first printed by Rand McNally in 1931. This giant, ambitious chart fit neatly with a trend in nonfiction book publishing of the 1920s and 1930s: the “outline,” in which large subjects were distilled into a form comprehensible to the most uneducated layman.

Designed as the first ever cross-border cable car the Blagoveshchensk – Heihe Cable Car will be built across the Amur River, which marks the border between eastern Russia and China.

Adam Magyar creates pictures which are „in-between time“ with his hacked camera.

Close to a billion Monoblocs have been sold in Europe alone, with one Italian manufacturer producing over ten million a year. Many design variants of the basic idea exist. The chairs cost approximately $3 to produce, making them affordable across the world.

A Driver’s License Can be Revoked for the Elderly, but Artistic License? Never.

The drive to make cities more ‘liveable’ means parks, plazas and happy pedestrians. But the reality is ever more sterile, identikit cities where public space isn’t public at all.