A personal review of design creations
Amman, Accumulated: The Return of Amman Design Week
After seven years of silence, Jordan’s design week has reopened under new directors Bisher Tabbaa and Sarah Hejazin and curators Faysal Tabbarah and Khaled Al-Bashir, with a theme that fits its long pause.
Living Territories: Biodesign Comes to Mexico
Mexico's first biodesign exhibition, at the Museo Franz Mayer, treats plants, fungi and microbes not as raw material but as fellow designers, and asks us to take a humbler seat at the workbench.
Life of Forms: AlUla Lands in the Marais
A desert exhibition lands in the heart of the Marais this September, as AlUla and Lafayette Anticipations pair centuries of Saudi craft with contemporary French collecting, proof that sand and concrete have more in common than the map suggests.
Open Storage, Open Secrets: Herzog & de Meuron Let Hong Kong Into the Workshop
The firm that built M+ hands over its sketchbooks. Discretion, it turns out, was never the point.
Concrete Independence
Concrete convictions: how seven newly independent nations built their identity in glass and reinforced concrete — and why MoMA's latest show could not have landed at a more Instagram-ready moment.
Sottsass Is Finally in Tokyo. It Was About Time.
The Italian who made the design world uncomfortable… and then indispensable, finally gets his Tokyo moment.
Against Excess: The Radical Quiet of Hella Jongerius
Hella Jongerius doesn’t just make beautiful things—she makes you think differently about them. This spring, the Vitra Design Museum argues for her as one of the most influential design minds of our era.
Patricia Urquiola: Meta-Morphosa
Patricia Urquiola’s exhibition at the Centre for Innovation and Design at Grand-Hornu arrives at a moment when design can no longer ignore its own implications.
Fungi: Anarchist Designers
Fungi: Anarchist Designers. A refreshing exhibition that casts fungi not as trendy materials but as autonomous designers with their own unruly logic, far beyond our control at the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.
The Rebirth of Designtide Tokyo
After a hiatus of twelve years, Designtide Tokyo is making its much-anticipated return to the Japanese capital on November 27th, marking an exciting new chapter for design enthusiasts worldwide.