Ceramics with a story

Designers are renowned for their incredible capacity to reach across a wide range of disciplines to inform their own practice. Today in Design/Art, design engineer Emile de Visscher looks at philosophy for inspiration, and dexterously lays out for us how a four-decade-old French classic, Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, can help understand contemp […]

Emmanuel Cooper, 1938-2012 […]

curated by beijing design week's creative director aric chen, 'silent heroes: objects, as told by zhou xun' takes everyday objects as a point of departure for a reflection on the value of day-to-day life. […]

In 2010/11 the arts sector in Wales came together at three major conferences in Cardiff, Swansea and Caernarfon to share ideas, ask questions and get practical tools for a more sustainable practice. The events featured 20 pioneering talks in the field of sustainability and the arts, including JB's director, Alison Tickell, which are now available in the […]

What is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on »cultures of sustainability«. Describing how modernity degenerated into a culture of unsustainability, to which the arts are contributing, Sacha Kagan engages us in a fundamental rethinking of our ways of knowing and seeing the world […]

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The ground zero of craftsmanship? […]

The beautifully designed monograph, _El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa_, edited by Lisa M. Binder, assistant curator at the Museum for African Art, serves as the catalogue for an exhibit of the same name that she organized for the museum. As the first comprehensive study of the work of this Ghanaian-born artist, the book is an important contr […]