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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. In this respect, he made his name working across lighting and furniture. Despite its light, modernist aesthetic, the story behind the Akari is a sad one, Ostende explains. A sculptor?

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Visionnaire blurs the lines between art and design

Design Wanted

Form follows function ” goes the old saying, a design directive prioritising an object’s use before any unnecessary decoration. 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. 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

He wrote about fanciful props, imaginative themes and the use of color and lighting to capture the attention of passersby. He believed that merchandise presentation was an art form. In 1925, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover said, “The Midas of advertising has given artists freedom and independence.”. Marquand and F.