As Emily Dickinson so very nearly wrote in the early 1860s: Answer July — Where is the Bee — Where is the Blush — Where is the Hay? Ah, said July — They are all — In a museum — Why aren't you? Answer Thee — Me —* Our five recommendations for new architecture, design and art exhibitions opening in July 2025 for bees, blushes, hays, and you, can be found in Berlin, Remagen, New York, London and Chemnitz....... "Defiance. Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era" at the Jewish Museum,
read moreBack in the days of the Roman Republic Martius was the month in which troops mustered in preparation for the coming battle season, to prepare, as it were, to March into war. Please don't! The world's out of control enough as it is! Rather use the coming spring as your incentive, to (a) make up for some of those New Year's Resolutions you've long forgotten you'd made and (b) to march into a future of new impulses, new understandings, new perspectives, a new world. To march into an architecture
read moreRed and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue..... Life is so simple as a child. Yet whereas in almost all other respects the progression to adulthood is one of simplicity to complexity, in terms of our understanding of colour we never lose our inner child. With the exhibition Breathing Colour at the Design Museum London the Dutch designer Hella Jongerius encourages us to sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow new. Noon colour catchers, as seen at Breathing Colour
read moreAccording to Axl Rose, "...it's hard to hold a candle, in the cold November rain." The question is surely, why you would want to? It sounds like a thoroughly foolish thing to do. The clocks have changed, it's dark, cold, we're all a little down, but honestly Axl, standing outside with candles ain't going to make things better. Visiting one of the following five new architecture and design exhibitions however might just.... Fear and Love – Reactions to a complex world at the Design Museum,
read moreIn 2015 the London Design Museum will move to its new home in West Kensington. Ahead of the move the museum have taken the opportunity to re-design their permanent collection exhibition, and from Wednesday January 30th 2013 are presenting it in the context of a series of explorations of design themes under the motto “Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things” Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things is organised in 6 themed installations: Taste, Why We Collect, Icons, Identity & Design,
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