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Thomas Heatherwick on design – video
The British designer of the 2012 Olympic cauldron and London’s new Routemaster bus talks about the changing face of British design
Mass Capital: Shumi Bose on OMA’s De Rotterdam
Sixteen years on from its conception, and after a stop-start history coloured by global crisis and loss of confidence, November 2013 saw the completion of the gargantuan De Rotterdam — The Rotterdam — the latest contribution to the city from its most prodigious architectural offspring, OMA
Designers get Plasticine for Christmas
Design contractor Syntec sent some of the UK’s most creative design and architecture studios some Plasticine to play with: here are the results
Wouter Vanstiphout: how Rotterdam lost its architectural soul
Blueprint invited architectural historian and professor of design Wouter Vanstiphout to comment on (De) Rotterdam — the city and the building — currently gracing the cover of our seriously jam-packed current issue (number 331). His eloquent lament for a city that once vibrated with an untamed, gritty energy, is published here in full.
FAT to disband after 23 years
After 23 years of practice, on December 16 2014, the influential and iconoclastic London-based office of FAT (Fashion, Architecture, Taste) has announced its decision to disband in 2014. In Blueprint’s 30th anniversary issue (Sept/Oct 2013) we revisited the first time FAT appeared on our cover, as the (very) young turks of 1997. We republish founding partner Sam Jacobs’ reflections on FAT — and architecture — then and now.
Interview: graphic design legend Peter Saville talks to Liz Farrelly
Graphic designer doyen Peter Saville was presented with the London Design Festival’s Medal, the first creative to receive it. Blueprint talks to the man about his career and ethos and also asks some of his contemporaries, colleagues and acolytes to choose their favourite piece of Saville’s work
Erik Spiekermann on the possible perils of life online
It may be smart to set the temperature of your house remotely and food shop online, but with the security services looking at everything we do, turning on heat and lights at odd hours, ordering some sort of foods, or reading stuff in foreign languages may finish up with you being accused of being a terrorist… Erik Spiekermann set up MetaDesign and FontShop, and is a teacher, author, designer and partner at Edenspiekermann
Artist Jee Young Lee creates surreal dream worlds in her studio
Work by South Korean artist, on show at the OPIOM gallery in France, sees haunting recreations of the beautiful, surreal and downright terrifying landscapes of the human subconscious
Auction of drawings by artists and architects raises £90,000 for charity
Drawings of famous sites including Brick Lane and the Gherkin sold at auction organised by built environment charity Article 25