Prism

Keiichi Matsuda lights up the V&A for a full look at London

As one of London Design Festival’s major hubs, the V&A is even more exciting this time of year than usual. Whether you’re taking in the RCA grads’ Out of The Woods furniture exhibition or Nendo’s Mimicry Chairs, if you’re stopping by the museum you should be sure not to miss digital artist and film-maker Keiichi Matsuda’s suspended “Prism.” The brilliant, kite-like sculptural lantern, made from …

Charlotte Cory

An English artist curiously revisits the Victorian era

When the Queen of England is among your collectors, you know you’re doing something right. But British writer and artist Charlotte Cory doesn’t let this distinction go to her head—that much is clear from the casual way in which she delivered her work to Windsor Castle. “I went and got a cab, put them in the cab and said, ‘can you take me to Windsor?’ …

myThread Pavilion

Architectural designer Jenny Sabin's biologically-inspired installation launches Nike's Flyknit Collective in NYC

Inspired by the marriage of design and engineering that birthed the groundbreaking Flyknit technology, Nike has selected a handful of global design innovators and tasked them with creating a sculpture, structure or installation piece influenced by the Flyknit shoe, to be unveiled at various locations in the US, China, Brazil, Japan, Italy and the UK. Each project by the members of the Flyknit Collective—chosen for …