Design
Selected online design stories by Herbert Wright
From Object 1033 to Osaka, Orbit and Beyond
Someone was building with wood even before homo sapiens emerged. Now, the world's biggest circular building is timber and wooden structures are entering space.
The Other Site blog, also in French at Chroniques d'architecture April 2025
Image credit David Parry and The Royal Academy of Arts
Celebrating Making at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2024
The two architectural rooms curated by Assemble are fantastic ... and have much more than architecture
wallpaper* June 2024
À la London Design Biennale 2023, fenêtre ouverte sur le monde
Je visite la biennale avec le thème choisi par le directeur artistique Arie Chen, "The Global Game", et trouve des idées extraordinaires et diverses, inclu un morceau de pain autrichien de l'avenir
En français! In French!
Chroniques d'Architecture June 2023
Models holding hands, Lagos, Nigeria, 2019 by Stephen Tayo. Courtesy Lagos Fashion Week
Dress to Impress! Africa Fashion at the V&A
The vibrancy, diversity and confidence of contemporary African fashion is on show at the V&A inLondon - and we get the backstory going back to the post-colonial rush of freedom!
CoBo Social, August 2022
Inside London's new Design District - photo Taran Wilkhu, courtesy Zetteler
Design District - in London's new creative village of completely new buildings, it's hello to Variety, Colour, Human Scale and Surprise!
CoBo Social, November 2021
How Modernist Charlotte Perriand Trailblazed 20th Century Living
The Design Museum, London, reassesses a giant of design
CoBo Social July 2021
From an urban forest to a field of spoons, ideas for a better world
CoBo Social June 2021
Ball.Room by KissMiklós in Gwangju Design Biennale| Photo KissMiklós
a report from South Korea, decipering the theme 'Humanity'
CHAMP, October 2019
London Design Biennale 2018- my Top 10
A gallery of LBD 2018 projects, including Guatemala, subsequently the Public Medal winners!
Abitare September 2018
Design Society Shenzhen - Views from the Top
An interview with Ole Bouman, director of Shenzhen's cool new museum/institution Design Society that's out to set China's design agenda
CoBo Social Feb 2018
California at London's Design Museum
The show's called Designing Freedom and it cruises design from an acid blotter to the sprawling metropolis- but where is California taking us in the digital age? Exhibition review.
Blueprint/ blog July/Aug 2017
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Valentina Kulagina, на оборону ссср To the Defence of the USSR, 1930, Ne boltai! Collection, and Emory Douglas, Afro-American solidarity with the oppressed People of the world, 1969 © Emory Douglas
Imagine Moscow at the Design Museum
How the show was designed, and the heroic unbuilt Soviet architectural visions from Leonidov, Iofan and others.
Blueprint 351/ designcurial March 2017
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Hopeful hutong interventions, hipster product hops and huge-city confusion... I report
Bueprint 349 Nov / designcurial Dec 2016
Deyan Sudjic at Design Museum. photo Luke Hayes
Understanding the World Through Design:
The director of London's new Design Museum offers his thoughts, on the eve of its opening
CoBo Social, Hong Kong November 2016
Tal R and his dog in Copenhagen. Photo G Hos
Denmark’s global design presence goes back to great modernist Arne Jacobsen, but who's now colouring the world’s favourite chair he designed for Fritz Hansen? I meet artist Tal R and his giant dog
Blueprint Sep/ designcurial Oct 2015
You have received a text from the Romans! Photo Herbert Wright
A Brief History of Text
Life
When it comes to texting the future, the Romans beat Twitter hands-down. Inscriptions last and are now heading beyond the Solar System. And how could our social media messaging evolve?
Journal of Wild Culture November 2014
From solemn stones to mischievous maps... rediscovering a great 20th century English graphic artist
Blueprint/ designcurial September/October 2014
Piling Up the
Now
What of design in a world run by artificial intelligence? HAL, Watson, servers that really are up there with the clouds...
RIBA Journal May 2014
Canopy Rafts, Meg Lowman and the rainforest
Designing platforms that float on the world's most crucial trees
Wired (UK) July 2010
Korean star designer Young Se Kim
Meeting the man with ideas beyond Korea's export-driven design formulas
Wired (UK) May 2009
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