All articles by Mamata Paira
Mamata Paira
#BPFinalPush: Blueprint Student Competition
It’s that time of year when design students are rushing to mount degree shows, and completing their all important final projects, the magnum opus of their academic careers. If you’re a final year architecture, design or art student working towards D-Day, this one is for you.
What future for creative education?
There is a storm brewing on the subject of design, art and architectural education. Earlier this year, a number of creative industry and cultural bodies claimed a victory as the government abandoned plans to push art and design in secondary education further into the margins than it already is . But just two months after that announcement, the curriculum has been criticised over its claims to prioritise ‘life skills’ over art and design disciplines.
Govine Tendencies: Jeremy Till on GOV.UK’s Design of the Year
I was pretty depressed on the night of Wednesday 17th April 2013. I was sat by myself overlooking the beautiful but bleak Norfolk marshes with a sense of foreboding about what the BBC would bring me, the day after the day of Thatcher’s funeral. And then my twitter feed flickered in to life.
L’Afrique, c’est chic! Afrofuture at Milan
The most intriguing exhibitions during Milan’s Salone del Mobile are often to be found in unconventional spaces. Gritty, abandoned warehouses on shabby side streets provide backdrops for on-trend, temporary exhibitions. But for one of the most stimulating events of this year’s Salone to take at a department store seemed slightly unusual.
Pae White: Too much night, again
Insomnia strings people out, but Californian artist Pae White used the condition to conceive a site-specific installation that strings out 48km of yarn across 4,725 eye screws, spanning the main gallery of the SLG. The result for her was therapy, and for the viewer a remarkable play on space and typography.