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THE MATERIAL AGE Part…

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Fashioned from Nature is an exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum that explores the complex relationship between fashion and nature from 1600 to the present day. It presents fashionable dress alongside natural history specimens, innovative new fabrics and dyeing processes, inviting visitors to think about the materials of fashion and the sources of their clothes. (Continues…)

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THE MATERIAL AGE Part 4: BIO DESIGN

bio design image by Omuus

Part 4 of The Material Age series is a guest post by Omuus.

Bio Design or Synthetic biology, also called bio-engineering, is an expanding market. It is expected to exceed $13.4 billion by 2019. This field is increasingly relevant to designers and everyone working in the field of design today should at least be aware of what it is. (Continues…)

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KREETTA JÄRVENPÄÄ: PRIME

Kreetta Järvenpää loves flowers, more than people who say they love flowers. She collects flowers in different shapes, sizes and colors, and then lets them wilt in peace before she gets back to them with her camera. (Continues…)

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THE MATERIAL AGE Part 2: Recycling Never Looked This Good

House of Rolf

We know that our current way of consuming is not going to make it in the long term if we want to keep this planet alive. Thankfully, many of today’s designers are exploring new ways to innovate more sustainable materials for future products. (Continues…)

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HANNALEENA HEISKA: CAMOUFLAGE

How does a person defend the particularity of one’s identity in a digitalized world? Hyperculture is the result of endless mixing of origins and ideas on the web. Hannaleena Heiska’s exhibition Camouflage touches not only the current theme of an individual’s right to privacy, but also the actual fluidity of identity. ”About a year ago I bumped into an article about an anti-facial recognition algorithm to conceal people’s identities with the help of make-up. The idea of hiding one’s true identity or even creating temporary one started to fascinate me.” (Continues…)

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Destruction as part of beauty – Interview with sound artist Jonna Kina

Jonna Kina’s work lies at the junction of sound and art. Viewing Kina’s art objects requires you to make connections, to find the thread that runs through the visual and aural ideas she presents. In Somnivm, she removes the human element from the images of the marble quarries at Carrara, allowing the viewer to discern what has caused the beautiful destruction of the landscapes. Here, the sound adds to the emptiness in the landscapes by filling it with the natural, authentic sounds recorded at the quarries. (Continues…)

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THE MATERIAL AGE – Part 1

Conductive Wallpaper - Flavour Paper - photo by Francis Dzikowski / OTTO.

The basis for the future of design lies in material innovations. In this series of articles we explore just a few of the many ideas that the Around Team feels could make a difference and change the way we think about the materials that surround us. (Continues…)

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Recollecting: Näytös 18

It seems that this is almost a ‘Golden Age’ of Finnish fashion. Technical innovations have preceded these revolutionary periods in history. And such is partly the case this time around. Social media has enabled in many areas of culture for niche to become mass. More importantly, in this time and age, the challenge is to create something long-lasting. Many of these designs captured by photographer Eeva Suutari will certainly stand the test of time, and more. (Continues..)

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Lotta Wennäkoski: Until the Dreams

Lotta Wennäkoski’s Until the Dreams at times feels like a crowd assembled to shout at you, a comic play and a love song to Finland. Composed for the 90th anniversary of the Radio Symphony Orchestra and the 117-year-old Polytech Choir, Wennäkoski writes odes about love that almost soothe you, if her complex rhythms weren’t creating such a sense of excitement, even at times wonder. (Continues…)

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Peter Holliday: The Mountain of Fire

The interrelations between mankind and nature set the ground for Peter Holliday’s photographic work. In his current exhibition The Mountain of Fire, featuring images from his series Where the Land Rises, he investigates themes of absence and remembrance by studying the volcanic eruption of Eldfell on the island of Heimaey in 1973 in Iceland. (Continues…)

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