London is wildly expensive. So how do you give the creative class—which has been an integral part of the city’s fabric since its founding—the space to create without being priced out? You build it. Located in Greenwich Peninsula, Design District is set to provide 150,000 square feet of affordable workspace for 1,800 people in the city’s creative field when it opens in the fall. As the District details, “Everything … is designed to help creative businesses thrive. That include

I thought I had floriated myself out in quarantine. I was wrong. Today I bring you more and more Art Nouveau—a sneak peek of the mouth-watering bouquet of architectural design flowers from the ever-prolific and prodigious team of Arnold and Isolde Schwartzman, whose new book Art Nouveau is published by Palazzo Editions. #artnouveau #DailyHeller #architecture #ArnoldSchwartzman #StevenHeller RELATED POSTS Designing London’s Design District Citizenship, Now More Than Ever Abstr

Inspired by Charles and Ray Eames’ film “Power of Ten,” a new book by Inventory Press, Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from Body to Cosmos edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Ann Lui and Mimi Zeiger, design by IN-FO.CO provides a view of belonging across seven stages starting with the individual (Citizen), then the collective (Civic, Region, Nation), and expanding to include all phases of contemporary society, real and projected (Globe, Network, Cosmos

Have you picked up your copy of the Print Regional Design Awards yet? Discover over 300 designs from across the U.S. and own a piece of the industry’s most well-respected annual. Abstract Premiers on Netflix February 10th “What’s important is the story. The message. The feeling. The connection. It’s design,” starts the trailer for Scott Dadich’s latest project. Abstract, an eight-part documentary series, focuses on the designs that shape the world around us. Dadich, who annou

You survived 2016 without having your head explode. So congratulations: You deserve at least one book by and about artists of comic strips, comic books and graphic novels. And here are some recommendations for designers who may also be animation addicts, history and/or biography fans, the politically and/or satirically oriented, the internationally inclined, eggheads, and/or just oddballs. And again: This was the oddest of oddball years, wasn’t it? See you in the funny papers

Certain cultures honor and respect its elders for their knowledge and experience. The graphic designer tribe, not so much. What’s new, what’s hot, what’s trending: on it! Regardless, we now have 20 Over 80: Conversations on a Lifetime in Architecture and Design. 20 Over 80 is a collection of new and original interviews with twenty of the most successful and acclaimed post-80 seniors in the visual arts, most of whom continue to be significant movers and shakers, a couple of wh

Special Advertising Note: The following sponsored content is provided by one of Print’s partners, Blurb. Barcelona has some of the most extraordinary architecture of any city in the world: stark modernism, gooey Gaudies, and futurist dreams. So how do you present that architecture in an entirely new and imaginative way? Illustrator and graphic designer Federico Babina found an answer by juxtaposing the man-made with the animal world. Frederico Babino Merges Architecture + Ani

The wonderfully designed book The Legacy of Corbusier, is a project designed by SVA student Enle Li. From the cover to the gallery spreads, its simple, yet beautiful approach well suits the legendary architect. Check out additional images here. Via Creative Boom. #architecture #bookdesign #LeCorbusier #studentproject

As many people do, I’ve often found it necessary to have things framed for display at home and in our studio—a relatively simple process that had always had a satisfying result. One “gallery” I used to take my stuff to also specialized in selling vintage prints of all kinds that they would beautifully frame and offer for sale. Unfortunately, one particular visit revealed the circumstances surrounding some of the framed pieces they chose to sell. Regardless of how lovely a 193

A skyline can be the most easily recognizable visual characteristic of a city, though this is typically the result of a handful of architectural icons that accent, if not dominate, the respective cluster of structures: The Empire State Building, Eiffel Tower, Burj Khalifa, to name but a few. But no matter the city, it is next to impossible for a skyline to be understood in terms of how all the components compare to one another. A skyline is a whole, but that whole makes it ve

A notable quote from Mies Van Der Rohe, illustrated by Seymour Chwast—number 86 in a weekly series. Submit a quote in the comments (or on Twitter or Facebook), and it will be considered for a future column. For more Seymour Chwast, check out The Last Word, his illustrated column in Print magazine, available from MyDesignShop.com. #miesvanderrohe #architecture #quote #SeymourChwast #architect

With post offices like this, who needs email? My friend Michele Angelini over at Italian Ways has made the kind of archeological design discovery that comes close to matching Heinrich Schliemann’s excavation of the historical Troy. Only this is neither buried nor ruined. One can walk right into The Palace of the Post Office in La Spezia, Liguria, and touch the mosaics. It is a futuristic celebration of modernity yet also a relic of the fascist era. The building was designed b

I’ve walked by this museum building in Rome, between Campo Fiore and Piazza Navona, a hundred times but only the other day did I realize it was the site of the mammoth “Si Si Si” billboard, showing Mussolini with a “Klingon” head. It was a former Fascist party headquarters. There is something decidedly eerie about walking in the footsteps of history. Of course, Rome today is an overlay on the past and ghosts abound. But there are so many remnants of Mussolini’s brief but horr

A year ago three students, Manuel Krings, Marc Pfaff, Andreas Unteidig, from the Köln International School of Design, sought to test (presumably with tongue in cheek) the design viability of a shiny black cube. They asked product, graphic and architectural designers to critically assess the cube to ascertain how serious or not the “critics” would be when faced with whether to explain or explain-away the object. The sessions with Stefan Sagmeister, Dieter Rams, Marco Piva, Mas

“Sky Park” Marina Bay Sands Singapore, opened on June 24 a new wonder of the world. It is located on the three 200-meter high skyscrapers, as if on three pillars. Here are the most expensive casinos, bars, restaurants, the largest outdoor swimming pool in the world. Read this from the Daily Mail: If you fancy a dip in this pool, you’ll need a head for heights – it’s 55 storeys up. But swimming to the edge won’t be quite as risky as it looks. While the water in the infinity

Newton Memorial They don’t make ’em like Etienne Louis Boullée envisioned ’em. Although monumental buildings exist, the cost of creating buildings and monuments as large as Boullée’s is both prohibitive and obscene. Still, his mammoth ego structures are fascinating to view in paper form, and even interesting to contemplate. This is architecture that smothers the masses. Pyramid Bibliotheque Nationale #architecture #DailyHeller #StevenHeller RELATED POSTS Citizenship, Now More

Lego has long lead the way in plastic brick products. The expandability of the products are brilliant. The numerous themes and tie-ins are endless. My faves are “City,” a collection of urban professionals going about their business (like you and me), and “fishing Boat,” a high tech plastic sea faring craft (fish excluded). Now Lego has released its new progressive architecture line, including the Guggenheim Musuem and Falling Water by Frank Lloyd Wright, Farnsworth House by L

I used to buy my file folders and Avery labels there. Now I can get a fully customized burger. And hold a meeting, view digital art, and yelp and tweet about the whole experience from one of the restaurant’s six built-in iPads or on my iPhone via the free wi-fi. 4food, on the corner of 40th and Madison, until recently a dingy stationery store The space, on the corner of 40th Street and Madison Avenue in midtown Manhattan — an area with the highest density workday population

Fashion – First Earth Battalion, designers: Michel Berendi and Simonida Tomovic. © Michel Berandi 2010, all rights reserved. The Pasadena Museum of California Art’s fourth California Design Biennial exhibition that opened a few weeks ago is organized into five categories, but the divisions are very loosely defined. Prius ads in the form of blossoming floral growth along the state’s freeways are considered Graphic Design. A music video takeoff on Fischli & Weiss’s “The Way Thi