Newsletter #119
This week, social and humanitarian design takes precedence in the exhibition Why Design Now? as part of the design Triennial at New York's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Zach Lieberman, a keynote speaker at the Graphic Design Festival Breda, speaks about the EyeWriter, an open source eye-tracking system which allows artists with physical paralysis to draw with just their eyes. Also, new collections crafted from paper and glass, and we get a glimpse of the first phase of the newly renovated Rotterdam City Hall.
EyeWriter
Zach Lieberman spoke at the Graphic Design Festival Breda about one of his initiatives, the EyeWriter, a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that enables artists with paralysis to draw using only their eyes.
SPACES
Using their trademark building blocks of irregular grids or 'genetic codes' EventArchitectuur created their first furniture series which has been seven years in the making.
Why Design Now?
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York presents the fourth exhibition in the Design Triennial series which explores how design is tackling today’s human and environmental problems.
Glass Skin
A unique collaboration with Venice Projects allows Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk to explore the colour possibilities of Murano glass.
New interior Rotterdam City Hall
The city of Rotterdam welcomes the first phase of completed renovations of its beloved City Hall, courtesy of interior architects Merkx+Girod.
Bucchero
A new series of paper vessels by Siba Sahabi takes inspiration from characteristic black Etruscan ceramics and emphasizes the ongoing importance of cultural melting pots.
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