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Should gov.uk be Design of the Year?
The simple, functional gov.uk website has won Design of the Year, beating reinvented wheels and AidPods for the prize. So is it the 'Paul Smith of websites'? Share your thoughts hereAt first glance, gov.uk may not look like a great work of design – let alone the Design of the Year, selected by the Design Museum. But that's the point. Its creators at the Government Digital...
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Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic Cauldron: it's flaming well not art
The glorious candelabra that opened the 2012 London Games has won the South Bank art award, but leaves this art critic coldThomas Heatherwick's Olympic Cauldron has won the South Bank Sky Arts award for the best Britsh work of visual art in 2012. Yet the Cauldron is not a work of art, and Heatherwick is not an artist.If he were an artist, he would be a really bad one. I once...
guardian.co.uk (2 months and 8 days ago)
Olympic cauldron was more than the sum of its moving parts...
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Murder victim’s mom waits for son’s effects
Thomas was shot multiple times early New Year's Day 2012 and was rushed off to the emergency room at St. Vincent's Medical Center where he was soon pronounced dead. [...] St. Vincent's has maintained that all of her son's belongings are in the possession of law enforcement, owing to the violent nature of his death. Cheryl Gill, manager of security at St. Vincent's Medical...
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The Complex Process of Keeping it Simple: Scott Thomas on Design
Scott Thomas is a designer, developer, user interface designer, letterpress junkie, usability and web designer, and all around busy bot. He was also Obama '08 design director for the Obama campaign. His site is simplescott.com
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'Design Thinking' focus of York School forum
York School is opening its doors to the public this week for two events addressing 'Design Thinking — A New Kind of Problem Solving.'
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Design Museum selects its picks of the year
The Designs of the Year contenders include the Olympic cauldron and Beijing's Galaxy Soho buildingA folding wheel, a non-stick ketchup bottle and a chair made from sea waste are some of the more innovative products unveiled today at the Design Museum's annual designs of the year exhibition, which this year sees a welcome emphasis on practical problem-solving rather than...
guardian.co.uk (2 months and 1 day ago)
Best Bet: Spun Chair
Thomas Heatherwick, the designer behind the impressively huge, dandelion-like cauldron at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, scaled back a bit for his latest creation. The Spun chair ($599 at Herman Miller, 1177 Sixth Ave., nr. 45th St.; 212-753-3022), molded in plastic with a conical base, was inspired by a ... More »
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