All articles by Sowmya Thuniki
Sowmya Thuniki
Post World’s End Architecture: Greece
Though it’s the birthplace of democracy, today Greek citizens find it a hard concept to believe in, living, as they do, in a country where financial independence is an impossible fiction, and where youth unemployment has reached staggering heights. Nevertheless, as the fourth instalment of Post World’s End Architecture shows, an emergent architectural scene is transcending the economic situation with imagination and innovation
GA Design helps Hilton go biggest in Istanbul
Hospitality design specialst GA Design International has helped Hilton Hotels expand its portfolio with designs for the Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel and Conference Center, the city’s largest hotel.
Design Council announces recipients of its Better by Design fund
The Design Council has announced the 10 projects that will share £100,000 funding for schemes aimed at improving children’s lives.
Call for next Design Guild Marks
Furniture designers have until 19 February to get their entries in to be considered for a 2014 Design Guild Mark.
Mather & Co starts work on New Olympic Museum
Museum and visitor attraction design consultancy Mather & Co has started 2014 on a high note, with its design for the new International Olympic Museum in Lausanne coming to fruition with the opening of the museum.
Interview: Mark Ridler
Trained as an engineer, the call of his creative interests was too much to resist for Mark Ridler, who moved over to theatre, he tells Jamie Mitchell. Now design director of lighting design practice BDP, his unusual background has led to some outstanding work
Blueprint for the Future: considering graphene
In the first of a new series looking at the very latest materials and their likely impact on architecture, design and the wider world, Chris Lefteri turns his attention to graphene. Chris Lefteri is a designer and has written seven books about new materials and their applications
Opinion: Dan Hill on ‘smart cities’
Though we’re still waiting for hoverboards, we live in an era long predicted by science fiction, where technology can intelligently operate our cities, responding to our needs. But instead of focusing on smart cities we should be concentrating on smart citizens, says Dan Hill as he outlines the past 10 years of smart-city thinking. Dan Hill is CEO of Fabrica, a design and communications research centre in Treviso, Italy
The art of repetition: Soviet-era posters
An exhibition of iconic Soviet-era posters for iconic Soviet-era silent films go on display in London this January, produced using a combination of painterly technique and bold, graphic typography