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“A creative polymath”: Isamu Noguchi’s life explored in new Barbican exhibition

Design Week

A landscape artist? Ostende has curated the Barbican’s upcoming exhibition on Japanese-American designer and artist Isamu Noguchi. Buckminster Fuller, with his humanist approach to the environment and the concept of “utopia”, had a particular impact on Noguchi she adds. “Was he a designer? A sculptor?

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The Adoption of Pop-Up Stores by Luxury Brands

Retail Focus

The concept of pop-up stores has a rich and diverse history, stemming from various cultural and commercial phenomena spanning centuries. From avant-garde installations to collaborative showcases with renowned artists or designers, pop-ups empower luxury brands to express their distinctiveness in captivating and unconventional ways.

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Visionnaire blurs the lines between art and design

Design Wanted

And yet, for well over a century, artists and furniture designers have turned this maxim on its head, blurring the lines between art and design. The concept of art design is precisely this synergy,” says the Italian brand’s Art Director, Eleonore Cavalli. Meta-luxury” brand Visionnaire has taken up this same charge.

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From Cobblestones to Cyberspace: VMSD Celebrates Its 125th Year of Service to the Retail Industry

VMS

New York quickly became the epicenter of burgeoning new retail concepts. In 1925, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover said, “The Midas of advertising has given artists freedom and independence.”. Limited only by their imagination, a generation of display artists went on to create magic with this versatile new material.