LDF17: Design Frontiers Promises Cutting-Edge Design Thinking
Design Frontiers is an exhibition that promises to "illuminate the thinking and working practices of celebrated designers..."
After the launch of the London Design Biennale in 2016, this year Somerset House hosted Design Frontiers, an exhibition that promised to “illuminate the thinking and working practices of celebrated designers, whose work is redefining the frontiers of their disciplines,” and in some cases, it really delivered on that promise.
A project that questioned the essence what graphic design could and indeed should be, was Dominic Lippa’s book entitled 250 Facts & Figures. Inspired by the notion that we have more information at our fingertips than ever before and yet seemingly less wisdom and more so-called “fake news,” coupled with the responsibility of the graphic designer as a disseminator of information, he collated 250 indisputable facts into one book and encouraged visitors to each take one home with them.
Another project that really seemed to fulfill the brief and offered an insight into the work of a designer working at the cutting-edge of his field was Mycelium + Timber by furniture designer and maker Sebastian Cox and design strategist and thinker Ninela Ivanova. The pair collaborated to create a collection of ‘grown’ stools and lights, using freshly cut wood waste from Sebastian?s woodland, myceliated with the species Fomes Fomentarius. As the mycelium grows, it binds the green wood ...
After the launch of the London Design Biennale in 2016, this year Somerset House hosted Design Frontiers, an exhibition that promised to “illuminate the thinking and working practices of celebrated designers, whose work is redefining the frontiers of their disciplines,” and in some cases, it really delivered on that promise.
A project that questioned the essence what graphic design could and indeed should be, was Dominic Lippa’s book entitled 250 Facts & Figures. Inspired by the notion that we have more information at our fingertips than ever before and yet seemingly less wisdom and more so-called “fake news,” coupled with the responsibility of the graphic designer as a disseminator of information, he collated 250 indisputable facts into one book and encouraged visitors to each take one home with them.
Another project that really seemed to fulfill the brief and offered an insight into the work of a designer working at the cutting-edge of his field was Mycelium + Timber by furniture designer and maker Sebastian Cox and design strategist and thinker Ninela Ivanova. The pair collaborated to create a collection of ‘grown’ stools and lights, using freshly cut wood waste from Sebastian?s woodland, myceliated with the species Fomes Fomentarius. As the mycelium grows, it binds the green wood ...
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