Set to hit streets in January 2015, the all-new Ducati Scrambler has been under wraps and highly anticipated for some time now. Unveiled this week, it’s a fine departure for the Italian brand best known for their “Monster” crotch rockets. With a style that harkens back to the ’60s and ’70s—the golden years of motorcycle design—the single-cylinder bike is sure to open the brand to …
Design Indaba’s newly redesigned site makes it easier than ever to keep up with all things creative happening in Africa. Interest in the steadily developing continent is widespread, and even Vitra is getting involved. The renowned German furniture-maker is focused on highlighting the new generation of creative talent in their forthcoming two-year exhibition, “Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design.” With curators like Okwui …
GPS, it turns out, can be more useful than just telling you how to get places. Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada used the very precise technology from Topcon Positioning Systems (used by cartographers and the US Army and Navy) to create “earth art”: a gigantic landscape portrait on a plot of land in Washington DC’s National Mall. 15,000 stakes were set up as a template, and …
