After the relative calm and civility of July and August, September sees a more than inconsequential upping of our professional pensum. In addition to our regular pilgrimage to Vienna Design Week, September 2013 also saw the opening of Lightopia at the Vitra Design Museum, Made in Slums - Mathare Nairobi at the Triennale Design Museum Milan, the International Marianne Brandt Contest in Chemnitz, and the acquisition of Finnish manufacturer Artek by Vitra......
read moreFor reasons we've never truly understood "food" always crops ups somewhere, in some context during Vienna Design Week. Fortunately the organisers appear to have finally stopped designers growing herbs and vegetables in public places and have instead moved on to explore other, more practical, aspects of our modern relationship to what we eat and how we can best organise food production and distribution in the future. Among the projects this year is Depot_0411 by Austrian designer Marlene
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