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  • Date posted: December 31, 2004

    2004

    Some of my favourite music videos of 2004.

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  • Date posted: December 26, 2004

    Mark Newson: Design Museum, London

    Mark Newson is one of today’s most celebrated designers. He is famous for his fluid, blob like designs, such as the Lockheed Lounge chair, the Orgone chair, the Embryo chair and the Felt chair, all of which have a seemingly timeless futuristic quality to them.

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  • Date posted: December 26, 2004

    Dover Street Market

    If I had to give out an award for the most inspiring interior design of the year, it would go to the Dover Street Market in London, a six-story shop conceived by Rei Kawakubo of Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons.

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  • Date posted: December 26, 2004

    Simply Droog: 10+1 Years of Avant-Garde Design

    When was the last time you laughed at a chair? That you thought, now that’s a funny chair that is? Chairs don’t really have a reputation for being outrageously funny. At the Droog Design retrospective, currently at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, The Netherlands, there are two chairs that I thought were pretty funny. Both are part of the “do create” collection of products inspired by the “do” brand, the brand without a supporting product, thought up by Dutch advertising agency KesselsKramer.

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