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the designers have developed special technologies for each model to add innovative features to the retro look.

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presented by audemars piguet and art basel, ‘albedo’ is an atmospherically-attuned installation that allows for daily aerosolar performances and solar cooking sessions.

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American firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has completed a house in Miami Beach, with a flat roof, glass walls and pilotis, all evocative of the region’s modernist architecture.

Spanning 5,192 square feet (482 square metres), the two-storey San Marino Residence is located on an island in Biscayne Bay.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designed the house as “a reinterpretation of the regional post-war Miami modernist architecture movement”. Miami modernist (MiMo) architecture is a variation of the International Style, and many resorts were built in this typology after the Great Depression. Continue reading

Charles Harrison, the industrial designer who revolutionised the View-Master toy and the plastic trash can, has passed away aged 87.

Harrison died on 29 November 2018 in Santa Clarita, California, from a bacterial infection, the New York Times reported.

The late designer is celebrated for paving the way for African-American designers with his reinventions of consumer products.

Among these was his transformation of the View-Master – a photography device that lets users view images in 3D – which turned it from the clunky version first introduced in 1939 into a lightweight, red plastic alternative. Completed in 1958 for small design firm Robert Podall and Associates, the redesign shifted the product from a speciality photography item to a popular children’s toy. Continue reading

titled ‘art with a view’, the exhibition includes pivi’s anthropomorphic, feather-covered polar bears; canvases of cascading pearls; video showing fish in flight on a passenger jet; and an 80-piece mattress installation.

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For our review of 2018, design editor Augusta Pownall picks out 10 trends that highlight what’s been going on in the design and tech world over the past year, from a focus on football and a move away from Milan, to the return of the humble poster.

Football Fever takes hold

With the World Cup taking place in Russia over the summer, it was little wonder that the beautiful game took centre stage for designers as well. There were charity beermats and illustrations, as well as re-designed kits for all 32 teams. Continue reading