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Bucharest: The 2010 Mix
In the world of design, China's rapid-manufacturing prowess and the oil-fuelled 'tabula rasa' urban developments of countries such as the UAE and Kazakhstan have given cause for thought in a typically Western-dominated field. But what of the countries bridging East and West? What of their design credentials? Turkey may grab the headlines for its EU tug-of-war and glossy design events, but it is the independent, cut-and-paste eclecticism of one of its Black Sea neighbours – Romania – that is capturing the imagination of those interested in grassroots design with a soul.
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Beneath the Surface
Scandinavian design brings to mind Finns, Swedes and Danish names that could be as prominent in the history books as todays names are on rapidly updated online blogs and publications. But, what of Norwegian design and what about some names...
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DIY Design: the art and value of creative self-promotion
As the academic wheels of design creak into a new term, thoughts of the most recent graduates striving to avoid a professional-scrap-heap scenario fall to the back of the mind as the hunt for the latest bright young creatives begins again. But, with an increase in applicants and graduates in design subjects (around 60,000 this year in the UK) aiming to fit through what seems to be a shrinking net of professional opportunity in an already competitive field, how do designers react and evolve to ride out financial and employment turbulence?
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Look Who's Talking: architecture in the global-communication era
If architecture is the accumulation of centuries of knowledge, then what of its existence in an era of perpetual and instantaneous updates that the Internet and social networking brings? For a technology-driven industry, it seems slow to embrace the possibilities of continuous information exchange. A number of young studios appear to have some answers, which in the process of challenging dusty perceptions are 'Twittering' and marketing their names to the forefront of architecture today ahead of the starchitects of yesterday.
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Sustaining Sustainability
Towards the tail end of the Nineties and through to the Noughties, many of us became acquainted with a consumer term known as 'green-washing', a technique that increases an object's perceived value (usually food) by tailoring a product storyline to include some 'green' environmental benefit.
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