Every year, Milan Design Week becomes a gateway to a fantastical land where design, make-believe, and material experimentation collide. The city transforms into a fever dream of sensorial installations, each blurring the line between reality and imagination, art and function. In this dream-like landscape, Swedish woven design brand Bolon, in collaboration with multidisciplinary designers Luca […]
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Dutch studio DRIFT has long captivated audiences with its kinetic installations, capturing fleeting moments from nature and translating them into immersive, sensory experiences within built environments. At Milan Design Week 2025, artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta did it once again with Drift Us, a robotic installation created in collaboration with Audi that evokes the […]
Even as winter’s grip lingers and many of us await spring’s warmth, vibrant signs of life are emerging at the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM). Over in Windover Hall, DRIFT’s latest installation, Meadow, transforms the atrium of the iconic Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion into a kinetic garden that defies the season. The studio, founded by Dutch […]
Our daily life is sometimes a grotesque misadventure especially when the news reads more like satire and expression becomes an act of resistance. But design is an invitation to dream, a conduit for escape from the slog of reality into distant realms. Thought leaders behind the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto – a collection of publications by […]
The always-incredible contemporary art space Dia Beacon, located just outside New York City, is currently hosting two additional awe-inspiring installations by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Steve McQueen. Paired with the many additional world famous installations on long term view, a trip to Beacon is my #1 art pick this August. Dia Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, New […]
If you audibly gasp the next time you’re at the Washington Metro Area Transit Agency (WMATA) Office Building in DC, you’re probably peering up at Tunnel Vision, a new site-specific public art installation by architecture firm FreelandBuck. Situated in the southwest corner of the building’s lobby, the massive canopy, which measures 10 feet high by […]
Sparking Change is a unique, educational installation presented by Roca and designed by Mario Cucinella Architects that was put on display at Fuorisalone during Milan Design Week 2024. Bringing the physical and digital worlds together at the Università degli Studi are 1,200 colorful, 3D-printed modular ceramic blocks stacked into a semi-circular backdrop measuring 4.5 meters […]
It may come as a surprise, but the human experiences of taste, hearing, smell, touch, and sight, share the computing capacity of technologies like the pocket calculator, hard disk, USB Key, and computer network, respectively. Google Hardware Design Studio, in collaboration with arts and research lab Chromasonic, explores the bandwidth of those sensory perceptions with […]
