Extortionate property prices in many cities are driving the need for creative thinking when it comes to designing and building new homes. There are also transport issues to take into consideration as city planners start to develop new infrastructures that move away from reliance on cars.
Tactical urbanism means making small-scale, temporary improvements to the built environment. Projects are often low-cost, temporary and demonstrative in that they show how urban environments can be improved, rather than supplying a finished solution. This approach can be hugely beneficial to urban areas, particularly those built many years ago and are hugely different – not only to the modern aesthetic but also today’s understanding of how urban communities are created and nurtured. Here, we bring you a selection of our favourite creative, Tactical Urban projects.
Design that offers a new perspective on everyday items can be both thought-provoking and inspiring. For this blog post, we bring you a selection of designer-artists whose experimental work takes an oblique look at the obvious.
Masks in art and costume span centuries and different cultures from around the world. This selection of artists has taken the concept of a mask and reworked it with fascinating results.
Pop Art is now a constant presence in our culture. However, the movement only really emerged in 1950s America and the UK, developing more in the 1960s with artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein who led a new breed of artists in revolt against the accepted art and cultural norms of the time. For a much more detailed explanation and to see some fantastic examples of Pop Art check out the Tate, while this feature explores Pop Art in product design.
Occasionally we like to bring you artworks with more than a passing nod to nature and this piece takes a closer look at art that pays homage to the tree.
Gustav Klimt at Atelier des Lumières takes visitors on a journey through 100 years of Viennese painting. The immersive exhibition, which has just been extended until January 6, 2019 takes an original look at the works of Klimt – marking the centenary of his death, through a presentation of the portraits, landscapes, nudes, colours, and gilding that revolutionised Viennese painting at the end of the nineteenth century.
If you want to be immersed in the very best of contemporary electronic and experimental music then check Assembly — a five-day event at London’s Somerset House running from November 14-18, 2018.
As well as giving us a taste for what we’ll be wearing next year, London Fashion Week also saw the return of designer Anya Hindmarch’s Chubby Hearts campaign featuring a huge ‘cloud’ beanbag in the City’s historic Banqueting House.
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