Juxtapoz (February 2010)

The latest issue of Juxtapoz is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• Josh Keyes
• Gentle Giant Studios
• Tim Biskup
• Jeben Berg
• Too Fly
• Matt Furie
• WTAPS
• Introduction -- Style Sheet -- Collectors -- Profiles -- Showstoppers -- Reviews -- Insider -- Events -- Pop Life -- Perspective

Metropolis (December 2009)

The latest issue of Metropolis is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

FEATURES

• BUILDING WITH LIGHT Speirs and Major's architectural approach to lighting goes beyond fixtures and foot candles / by Jonathan Glancey
• CROSBY: GOOD NEIGHBOR A new hotel in SoHo exudes a homey British feel while paying proper deference to the often contentious surrounding community / by Kate Bolick
• THE OH! FACTOR How James Dyson transforms everyday objects - the vacuum cleaner, the hand dryer, and how the desk fan - into objects of wonder / by Suzanne LaBarre
• A SYMBOL OF PROGRESS Detroit's striking new transit center takes on even greater significance as the city suffers its most serious economic blow / by Kristin Palm
• TAKING TO THE STREETS With auspicious timing, Landscape Forms launches its first transit-oriented furniture collection / by David Sokol

DEPARTMENTS

• METROPOLISMAG.COM New and exclusive on the Web
• NOTES FROM METROPOLIS Waves of new energy radiate from Washington as designers are called on, now more than ever, to collaborate.
• DIALOGUE A reader's letter and a correction
• OBSERVED: A Stadium Comeback The debate over restoring one of Miami's most iconic venues heats up. -- Good Chemistry/Curve Appeal One set of lighting fixtures inspired by scientific flasks, another by its ocean environs -- Military Chic Claesson Koivisto Rune fashion stylish hotel rooms in a couple of historic barracks.
• AMERICA The curious route of the Las Vegas Monorail is the product of an equally bizarre planning and development process / Karrie Jacobs
• LEARNING CURVE A new industrial-design program immerses students in the realities of corporate culture.
• IN PRODUCTION Defne Koz's latest offering suggests two stones set aglow.
• PRODUCTSPHERE With an emphasis on innovation and affordability, Spain is establishing itself as a major power in lighting design.
• REFERENCE More information on people, places, and products covered in this issue of Metropolis
• BEN KATCHOR Over the Shoulder

Domus No. 931 (December 2009)

The latest issue of Domus is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

STREAMS

• News, events, competitions, projects / EDITED BY ELENA SOMMARIVA

ARCHITECTURE

• SOCIAL HOUSING IN MADRID The residential building sets its porous design against the area's introverted architecture to break up the uniformity of the block. / DESIGN BY MVRDV, BLANCA LLEÓ; TEXT BY JESÚS VASSALLO; PHOTOS BY ROLAND HALBE, RICARDO ESPINOSA
• THE HIGH LINE, NEW YORK A work in progress, the New York development marks a peak in the design of contemporary public space. / DESIGN BY JAMES CORNER FIELD OPERATIONS AND DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO; TEXT BY PIPPO CIORRA; PHOTOS BY IWAN BAAN
• MUSEUM AS PLAYGROUND The new Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne is a study of the social relationship between the culture of technology and educational entertainment. / DESIGN BY ANNETTE GIGON / MIKE GUYER; TEXT BY STEFANO CASCIANI; PHOTOS BY HEINRICH HELFENSTEIN
• ZAHA HADID: MAXXI, ROME A monument to contemporary art as endless vertigo. / DESIGN BY ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS; TEXT BY STEFANO CASCIANI; PHOTOS BY IWAN BAAN, HÉLÈNE BINET, ROLAND HALBE
• THE TOTE, MUMBAI A typical colonial building transformed using highly sophisticated semiotic codes. / DESIGN BY CHRIS LEE, KAPIL GUPTA - SERIE ARCHITECTS; TEXT BY JAGAN SHAH; PHOTOS BY EDMUND SUMNER
• CENTRE FOR SIGHT, SUSSEX In their design for this specialist eye centre, the London-based studio revised and transcended the setting's immediate points of reference. / DESIGN & PHOTOS BY TOH SHIMAZAKI ARCHITECTURE; TEXT BY JAY MERRICK; PHOTOS BY EDMUND SUMNER
• LIVERPOOL TOWER, MEXICO CITY A metal skin upgrades and anonymous 1980s building. / DESIGN BY HIERVE-DISEÑERÍA; TEXT BY ALEJANDRO VILLARREAL; PHOTOS BY FERNANDO CORDERO
• HOUSE O, RUBESHIBE, JAPAN A house for a young couple that spreads out over the landscape like a plant. / DESIGN BY JUN IGARASHI ARCHITECTS; TEXT BY CATHELIJNE NUIJSINK; PHOTOS BY IWAN BAAN
• BELAVALI HOUSE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA Being contemporary without denying our roots. / DESIGN BY BIJOY JAIN, STUDIO MUMBAI ARCHITECTS; TEXT BY LAURA BOSSI; PHOTOS BY HÉLÈNE BINET, STUDIO MUMBAI ARCHITECTS

INTERIORS

• FROG QUEEN, GRAZ A hermetic cube protects an engineering firm's research. / DESIGN BY SPLITTERWERK; TEXT BY LILLI HOLLEIN; PHOTOS BY PAUL OTT
• HOUSE IN NAGOYA A portion of landscape of the domestic scale is the distinctive feature of this small city house. / DESIGN BY MAKOTO TANIJIRI, AL YOSHIDA / SUPPOSE DESIGN OFFICE; TEXT BY ELENA SOMMARIVA; PHOTOS BY TOSHIYUKI YANO / NACASA & PARTNERS

DESIGN

• LEARNING FROM VIDEOGAMES Videogames as masters of interactivity and digital art stars. So says Web design guru Andy Cameron. / TEXT BY STEFANIA GARASSINI
• UNICITÀ FUNZIONALE Some objects have forms that camouflage a functional uniqueness just waiting to be interpreted. / DESIGN BY GIOVANNI ALESSI ANGHINI, ATELIER BOW-WOW, GIJS BAKKER, LORENZO DAMIANI, INEKE HANS, RICHARD HUTTEN, POLKA, PHILIPPE STARCK; TEXTS BY MARIA CRISTINA TOMMASINI; PHOTOS BY CONTROLUCE STUDIO; GIACOMO GIANNINI
• UNICITÀ DECORATIVA A one-off project has boosted the creativity of skilled craftworkers at porcelain manufacturer Richard Ginori. / DESIGN BY PAOLA NAVONE; TEXT BY MARIA CRISTINA TOMMASINI
• RITORNO ALLE ORIGINI Glass and ceramic, together. United by the desire to retrieve the link with the history and art of making. / DESIGN BY LUCA NICHETTO; TEXT LOREDANA MASCHERONI

ART

• WONDERLAND OF ART Nine new works enrich Brazil's Inhotim Park, a unique model for a museum. / DESIGN BY CHRIS BURDEN, DOUG AITKEN, EDGARD DE SOUZA, JANET CARDIFF & GEORGE BURES MILLER, JORGE MACCHI, MATTHEW BARNEY, RIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER, VALESKA SOARES, YAYOI KUSAMA; TEXT BY CECILIA ALEMANI; PHOTOS BY PEDRO MOTTA
• ARTISTI IN SCENA The performances of "Blinding the Ears" state the return to an expressive form of art centred on the artist. / TEXT BY FRANCESCO STOCCHI
• ROB PRUITT. DENIM & CEMENT Sculptures + iPhone photographs. A special project for Domus. / DESIGN BY ROB PRUITT

INTERSECTIONS

• CAMOUFLAGE Dress up and blend in. Dissolving boundaries, resolving worlds. / GRAPHIC DESIGN BY ONLAB - NICOLAS BOURQUIN, THIBAUD TISSOT; EDITED BY FRANCESCA PICCHI; TEXTS BY JULIAN WORRALL, RYUE NISHIZAWA, KAZUYO SEJIMA, ARQUITECTURA 74, ELLSWORTH KELLY

ARCHIVES

• VELARCA Giorgio Casali's photos of BBPR's "house on a boat". / TEXT BY LUIGI SPINELLI; PHOTOS BY ARCHIVI DOMUS

HIGHLIGHT

• DESIGN REAL AT THE SERPENTINE GALLERY

BOOKS

• L’ÉPHÉMÈRE, N’EST-IL PAS ÉTERNEL? The Drama of 20th-Century Physics. The new towns. The Architecture of the Fascist Period. A Difficult Cohabitations. Words and food. / EDITED BY GIANMARIO ANDREANI

RASSEGNA

• OUTDOOR SPACES Furnishings and materials. / EDITED BY MARIA CRISTINA TOMMASINI

Elle Decoration (January 2010)

The latest issue of Elle Decoration is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

SHOPPING

• Find of the month! Fun wooden shapes to fuel your imagination
• Wish list This month's top 15 things
• COVER STORY Ready, steady, shop! Stuck for last-minute gift ideas? Look no further!
• Get the glitter bug! Make your home sparkle with a bit of metallic magic
• Shopping news The latest and greatest from the high street
• Nine of the best... Chairs that stack or fold - perfect for extra guests

LIVING

• An inspired idea! Illuminated shelves to show off prized possessions
• COVER STORY Colour vision Bright accessories that will being joy to you and your home
• COVER STORY Setting the scene Three style mavericks present their fantasy table settings for the party season
• COVER STORY Into the blue Embrace the power of this cool and calm hue
• Pattern power How to layer dramatic wallpapers and carpets
• Access all areas Top blogger Todd Selby takes us through a selection of his favourite celebrity homes
• COVER STORY Be my guest How to make visitors feel at home, in your home

NOW

• Need to know! Shaker style furniture that epitomises rustic chic
• 10 mins with... Dutch designer Maarten Baas
• Aqua The lowdown on London's slickest new restaurant
• Design hero Suave Brit David Hicks
• On the scent Perfumer Lyn Harris introduces her newest collection
• Anatomy of a classic The essence of good home cooking: the Aga
• Name to know Japanese glass guru Yoichi Ohira
• Crystal palace A house of glass that's breaking new boundaries
• My favourite things Design maven Tricia Guild reveals her passions
• British Design Awards - the party! Celebrating the 2009 BDAs

HOMES

• Heart of stone A limestone-clad New York loft apartment with a fine line in contemporary art
• Block party This Parisian apartment combines colour and sophistication
• Interior monologue A chic, futuristic interior has made this home a unique urban sanctuary
• Small world Explore the tiny but perfectly formed world inside this stylish doll's house
• Pure & simple A converted distillery is the perfect setting for one homeowner's pared-down dream

FOCUS

• COVER STORY Lighting special! Our round-up of the finest lamps and pendants, plus ingenious lighting solutions to suit any space

The Meaning of Photography

The meaning of photography edited by Robin Kelsey and Blake Stimson is a new book available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• Introduction. Photography's Double Index (A Short History in Three Parts) / Robin Kelsey and Blake Stimson

Pt. 1. Beyond the Index

• Indexicality and the Concept of Medium Specificity / Mary Ann Doane
• Photography. Chance, and The Pencil of Nature / Robin Kelsey
• "A better example is a photograph": On the Exemplary Value of Photographs in C. S. Peirce's Reflection on Signs / Francois Brunet
• Moon Studies and Star Scratches / Sharon Harper

Pt. 2. The History of Photography at Issue

• Peter Henry Emerson: The Mechanics of Seeing / Douglas R. Nickel
• Camera Lucida: Another Little History of Photography / Geoffrey Batchen
• The Hashem el Madani Project / Akram Zaatari

Pt. 3. Photography as Totality

• A Photograph Is Never Alone / Blake Stimson
• In the Valley of the Blind / John Tagg
• Two Double Negatives / Jose Luis Falconi
• topologies / Lilla LoCurta and Bill Outcault

Pt. 4. Positions

• Overexposure: Thoughts on the Triumph of Photography / Anne McCauley
• On the Ruins of Photographic Culture: The Politics of Photographic Form Today / John Roberts
• Reading Photographs Iconographically or Ichnographically / Lars Kiel Bertelsen
• Molecular Documents: Photography in the Post-Photographic Era, or How Not to Be Trapped into False Dilemmas / Jorge Ribalta
• Focus and Cross: Thoughts on the Changing Face of Japanese Contemporary Photography / Eric C. Shiner
• Photography Is Over, If You Want It / Eric Rosenberg
• Photography as the Medium of Reflection / Bernd Stiegler
• Correction / Fiona Tan.

Communication Arts - Vol. 51 No. 5 (November/December 2009)

The latest issue of Communication Arts is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

features

• Kate Brooks by Rebecca Bedrossian - Armed with courage and a strong journalistic sensibility, this photographer finds richness in her adventurous career.
• SS+K by Warren Berger - This New York agency honed its skills in the political arena.
• Jason Holley by Anne Telford - A Southern California illustrator unveils the natural world in his complex illustrations.
• Exhibit by Jean A. Coyne - The latest and best in visual communication from here and abroad.
• 50 Years of Design - A sampling of award-winning work and commentary by some of the designers we've profiled in the past 50 years.

2009 design annual

• Packaging
• Annual Reports
• Identity Program
• Trademarks
• Product/Service Brochures
• Integrated Branding Programs
• Catalogs
• Letterheads
• Miscellaneous Company Literature
• Posters
• Public Service
• Books
• Editorial
• Environmental Graphics
• Motion Graphics
• Miscellaneous
• Self-Promotion

fresh

• Frank Stockton - This New York illustrator uses exaggerated perspectives in his graphic narratives.
• The White Room - In Toronto, Canada, this husband and wife design team take inspiration from their surroundings.
• Shaun Fenn - A San Francisco Bay Area photographer captures serenity with his lens.

columns

• Design Culture - Blogging with a different perspective by Wendy Richmond.
• Design Issues - DK Holland discusses intuition, reason and creativity.
• Emerging Media - Augmented reality is spreading like wild fire in mobile marketing, according to Sam McMillan.
• Advertising - Amidst all the change, Edward Boches says the need for creativity is stronger than ever.
• Web Watch - Apollo II takes us to the moon again, and three online type destinations.
• Typography - Allan Haley looks at four "new" typeface revivals.
• Environment - Saul Griffith tells Sam McMillan that designers need to know the numbers.
• Business - David C. Baker on crowdsourcing - he doesn't mince words.
• Design Trends - Writing about design, as seen by publishers, writers and designers.

departments

• Editor's Column
• Contributors
• Letters to the Editor
• Book Reviews
• Resources
• Index to Design Annual 50
• Directory

The Architectural Review (December 2009)

The latest issue of The architectural review is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

VIEW

• World cities call time on expansive downtown arts districts
• David Chipperfield's reconstruction of the Neues Museum in Berlin opens for business
• James Wines dreams of a new future where nature and culture merge through architecture
• Artangel attempts to raise social awareness of Western traditions
• Donald Judd's Concrete Works reopens following refurbishment
• Canadian author Douglas Coupland designs a clock for a shopping mall
• 2009 World Architecture Festival

BUILDINGS - EMERGING ARCHITECTURE

• Map
• Emerging Architecture Awards intro
• Li Xiaodong Atelier Bridge School, Fujian Province, China
• ODOS Architects Knocktopher Friary, Knocktopher, County Kilkenny, Ireland
• José María Sánchez García Sports Research Centre, Cáceres, Spain
• Matharoo Associates Curtain Door, Surat, India
• Takeshi Hosaka Architects Love House, Yokohama, Japan
• Mauricio Rocha School of Plastic Arts, Oaxaca, Mexico
• Sergi Serrat Housing and facilities, Barcelona, Spain
• Atelier Fernandez & Serres Les Graines D'Etoiles Nursery, Aix en Provence, France
• 128A Architecture & Urban Design Copalita School, Huatulco, Mexico
• feld72 Million Donkey Hotel, Prata Sannita, Italy
• John Lin Qinmo Primary School, Qinmo, Guangdong province, China
• SMS Arquitectos Health Centre, Badies, Mallorca, Spain
• Yoshiaki Oyabu Architects Open Architecture, Tokyo, Japan
• Kurtogpi Architects Borgarfjördur College, Borgarnes, Iceland
• Graft House Prototype, New Orleans, USA
• Ventura Trindade Arquitectos Garducho Biological Centre, Mourão, Portugal
• Christ & Gantenbein Architects Swiss National Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
• Kochi Architect's Studio House kn, Miura, Kanagawa, Japan
• Chinese University of Hong Kong Ecological Demonstration Primary School, Gansu Province, China
• Architectural Studio XYZ Tea Pavilion, Moscow, Russia
• Scenario Architecture Focal Shift Fireplace, London, UK
• Supersudaka Chapel of Cristo Salvador, Talca, Chile
• Sajeev Shankar Canopy Installation, New Delhi, India
• Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter Fireplace for Children, Trondheim, Norway
• Christ & Gantenbein Architects Ancient Tree Pavilion, Jinhua, China

MARGINALIA

• Dan Cruickshank on Georgian sex and space; the Berlin Wall 20 years on; David Chipperfield retrospective; Miroslaw Balka at the Tate Modern
• Specifier's information All the latest product information for architects and specifiers
• Back page Introspective photography from an Iraqi prison, part of The Red House series by Broomberg and Chanarin

Selvedge - Issue 31 (Nov/Dec 2009)

The latest issue of Selvedge is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

INDULGE textiles to buy, collect or simply admire

• Joyeux noël Gifts for all your friends and family
• Conservation area The V&A's recently restored War of Troy tapestry

INDUSTRY from craft to commerce

• COVER STORY Spangles, sequins and stars Herbert Lieberman's glittering career
• Crystal clear The history of Swarovski
• COVER STORY Away with the fairies Samantha Bryan's flights of fancy

ANECDOTE textiles that touch our lives

• The handmade's tale Our nine-page guide to 'making' the holidays a pleasure
• COVER STORY St Catherine's Day "Please send me lord, a well to-do husband"

CONCEPT textiles in fine art

• Shiny, happy people The art of Geraldine Larkin, Ann Carrington and Donya Coward
• Wit and wisdom Our word perfect competition winner reveals the work of Richard Saja

ATTIRE critical reporting of fashion trends

• Plain speaking Poetic fashion from Swedish designer Ewa Iwalla

COHABIT stunning interiors beautifully photographed

• COVER STORY Eccentric circles J. Morgan Puett's simple life in Mildred's lane

GLOBAL travel destinations and ethnographic textiles

• Ghulam Sakina and Wales Red dragons, blue hills, green valleys

INFORM the latest news, reviews and exhibition listings

• bias/contributors
• correspondence
• news
• sustain
• how to... knit a pair of gloves
• COVER STORY Tinsel
• international listings exhibitions, fairs, events
• read Books for fashionistas, adventurers, dandies or homebodies who have everything
• view Eva Hesse, Maharajas, Thomas Wardle, Rijswijk Textile Biennial
• resources

Fashion Practice - Vol. 1 No. 2 (November 2009)

The latest issue of Fashion Practice is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• Editorial / Marilyn DeLong
• The Sweatshop, Child Labor, and Exploitation Issues in the Garment Industry / Liat Smestad
• Engaged Design and the Practice of Fashion Hacking: The Examples of Giana Gonzalez and Dale Sko / Otto von Busch
• A Case Study of the Strategic Role of Design Processes in Brand Name Development in Turkey / Gozde Goncu Berk
• Designer Essay - Phashion: A Brief History and Design Philosophy / Simon Thorogood
• Designer Interview - Multiple Systems and Composite Identities in New York Fashion: An Interview with Mary Ping / Francesca Granata
• Designer Interview - Designer Hussein Chalayan in Conversation with Sandy Black / Sandy Black
• Exhibition Review - Hussein Chalayan: From Fashion and Back / Jessica Bugg
• Festival Review - Internationalizing and Industrializing Fashion: Shanghai International Fashion Culture Festival (SIFCF) / Juanjuan Wu
• Book Review - Eco Chic: The Fashion Paradox / Regina Root
• Book Review - Sustainable Fashion and Textiles / Tonya Boone

Fashion Theory - Vol. 13 No. 4 (2009) Australian Fashion Perspectives Special Issue

The latest issue of Fashion Theory is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• Letter from the Editors / Jennifer Craik and Prudence Black
• Is Australian Fashion and Dress Distinctively Australian? / Jennifer Craik
• What is "Australian" Fashion Photography? - A Dilemma / Margaret Maynard
• True Brits? Authoring National Identity in Anglo-Japanese Fashion Exports / Alison Goodrum
• Undressing Kellerman, Uncovering Broadhurst: The Modern Woman and "Un-Australia" / Christine Schmidt and Jinna Tay
• The Detail: Setting Fashion Systems in Motion / Prudence Black
• What Size Am I? Decoding Women's Clothing Standards / Kate Kennedy
• Exhibition Review - Black in Fashion: Mourning to Night / Sally Gray
• Book Review - Why Women Wear What They Wear / Shivani Pandey Derrington

Textile View - Issue 88 (Winter 2009)

The latest issue of Textile view is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• Publishers view - The last round of designer shows may end up being most memorable not for the clothes but as pointers to the future of the whole fashion system. Fashion, it can now be stated, has become entertainment.
• Fibres & fabrics - While for so long fabrics have been getting lighter and lighter, this tendency now seems to be reversing as fabrics become more compact, firmer and even heavier.
• Capital update - Plenty of retail activity and also shop openings in spite of the crisis, but it is hard to get a clear picture on consumer spending. The public is still in a mood for thrift, but, hopefully, they are just holding back before a Christmas splurge.
• Fashion news - What's gone wrong in Japan? View investigates; Is Twitter the future of fashion marketing?; Liz Claiborne's big surprise in JC Penney link-up; The New Normal, post-recession blues; The Green Revolution, it's here to stay; Meditations on Fashion, how the Anna Wintour movie summed up an era.
• Womenswear r-t-w shows - A sense of optimism emerged from the womens r-t-w shows whether through colour and fabric or the new softened silhouettes.
• Express fashion - The catwalks brought a new sense of adventure, with some experimental and dramatic directions set to breath new energy into our customers... and about time too!
• Designer fabric messages - Despite careful consumer market, the catwalk is far from playing it safe. On the contrary, it's proving to be a dreamy and somewhat otherworldly season rather than one firmly planted in stark reality.
• Designer details - Work-a-day, military and masculine biker aspects are contrasted sharply by an intensely feminine look seeing a return to the earliest forms of body adornment through wrapping and draping.
• New fabric directions - The most difficult tast this season, apart from choosing what look you want to follow, is deciding you palette - investment camels and greys, interesting new winter blues or the brightest of anti-recession brights.
• Menswear orientations - Elemental. In troubled times we need trusted friends. We choose to rely on sure values and want to establish relationship based on trust and reliability.
• Womenswear forecast - Garments will no longer be perceived as single, unique pieces but as elements incorporated into a total silhouette, that has been carefully styled with lots of layering.
• Menswear forecast - Fabrics weight nothing, caress the body or dress it with supple structures. And we transfer this lightness of material into a lightness of being and thinking that floats across the season.
• Knit colours - Colour flows from ethereal 'barely there' tones through washed and fresh naturals to a powerful intensity of darks and dynamic brights for summer sparkle.
• Knits & yarns - Looking at knits through fresh eyes, the seasonal message is focused on those exceptional developments, which enhance the honest down-to-earth product offer to which we are drawn.
• Menswear knits - Our trend message for Summer 2011 knits heads into two key directions - 'A Touch of Ethnic' or 'Fresh, Clean and Modern'.
• Knitwear forecast - Just when you thought you'd seen it all, knitwear for winter brings together a magnificent and breathtaking combination of techniques, textures and forms.
• Lifestyle - 'Happiness' - The American Declaration of Independence says that all men are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but not the happiness itself. So what exactly is happiness, and what does it mean to us today?
• Design & lifestyle - Get real and escape! Fashion and design bounce between the urge to get real and stay focused and the need for novelty and excitement.
• Lifestyle dressing - We're supposed to be giving a damn again. But are we really dressing up again? To find out, we used last September's Première Vision as a barometer and it reads in a very interesting way.

Dumbo Feather, Pass It On - Issue Twenty-Two (Summer 2010)

The latest issue of Dumbo feather, pass it on is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

Pia Jane Bijkerk

• "I choose my styling clients and my blog is very much about local, handmade work and sustainability. Even though I'm still promoting products, each and every one of them is within my core beliefs."

-- Paris: made by hand -- Blogs: the new chocolate -- Tibet's Cry -- Ex-aspiration --

Rob Cork

• "My main role is to work with out permaculture team to set up our children's village (in Africa), which we call Kesho Leo, to be sustainable ... We want to produce most of our own food, water, energy and building products."

-- Of their own accord -- Camping love -- Thumbelina --

Holly Davis

• "I definitely provide love by feeding people. I think I'm here to feed people ... I love people and I love seeing people inspired by what they can do for themselves. I'm obviously a teacher. I can't help myself."

-- Kirie -- With or without you -- Wholefood Principles --

Marcus Westbury

• "At one end of the spectrum is the classic, high-arts approach, and at the other end there's the commercial approach. Neither of those things particularly interest me, but I am intersted in all the stuff in between."

-- Creative Origins -- City/Country -- Renew Newcastle --

Catherine Federici

• "I really love glasses and how they transform a person's personality. Industrial Design was the basic information I needed for how to manufacture and produce sunglasses, but it was really psychology-related design I needed more."

-- Shady characters -- The Shelves Themselves -- The Box -- Rocket-powered unicorns --

Architectural Review Australia - Social Space (Summer 2009/2010)

The latest issue of Architectural Review Australia is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

reviews

• Editorial / Maitiú Ward

designwall

• CODA, Open Studio, MacCormack Simonian, MANOARCHITECTS
  

reviews

• Book round up

events / competitions

• Boral Design Award 2009 / Andrew Mackenzie
• Shelter: On Kindness / Stuart Harrison

social space: features

• New Anthems / Gilliam Serisier
• The architecture of action / Melanie Dodd
• The ambiguous politics of infrastructure / Adrian Lahoud
• Emergent urbanism / Dan Hill
• Contested ground / David Neustein
• Communicating Architecture / Tania Davidge, Christine Phillips, Alex Selenitsch, Hamish Lyon, Karen Burns, Stuart Harrison, Martyn Hook
• Design for people / Russell Fortmeyer
• Small matters / Silvia Acosta, Adrienne Benz, Diego Ramirez-Lovering

projects

• Dandenong High School / Stuart Harrison / Hayball / Peter Clarke
• Boomerang Beach Houses / Genevieve Lilley / Collins and Turner / Richard Glover
• Boundary House / Anna Johnson / BKK / Shannon McGrath
• House at Mosman / Gillian Serisier / Rice Daubney / Rocket Mattler

esd

• Australia's green cargo cult / Tone Wheeler
  

focus

• Lights out: exterior lighting / NDYLIGHT

news/events/competitions

• Newsfeed

Last word / Paul Johnston

Poster Collection

Poster collection : photo graphics edited by Bettina Richter, essay by Nanni Baltzer is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"The focus is on eight graphic artists chosen to exemplify today consciously, using photography and type as their means of expression. In the posters of Michal Batory, Cyan, Werner Jeker, M/M (Paris), Gerwin Schmidt, Skolos/Wedell, Leonardo Sonnoli, and Tschumi, Küng, it becomes clear that different visual conceptions can have different consequences for the use of photography, and can conceal different attitudes towards graphic design" -- Bettina Richter (back cover)

Maison Martin Margiela

Maison Martin Margiela '20': the exhibition is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• The collection for women
• A wardrobe for women
• The collection for men
• A wardrobe for men
• A collection of accessories for women & men
• A collection of shoes for women & men
• Eyewear collection
• Objects & publications

md 12 (2009)

The latest issue of md is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

• Chinese Elegy

UNDER DISCUSSION

• Between the Cultures
• The West still sets the Design Standards Prof. Dr. Peter Zec
• European Designers Represent Pure Doctrine Prof. Fritz Frenkler
• Environmental Awareness and Chinese Design Yang Ming Jie

INTERIORS

• From Fortress to Model Urbanus architecture & design
• Space Extremes Kazuyo Sejima & Associates
• Contrasts United AZL Architects
• Terraced Air Yuan Ken Building Workshop
• Exemplary Metamorphosis Universal Architecture Studio
• Coffee Unites beyond the void

PRODUCTS

• Simplicity as a Principle
• Leading for Years
• Between Low Tech and High Tech
• Products for the World
• Love of the Present

Domus 930 (November 2009)

The latest issue of Domus is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

STREAMS

• News, events, competitions, projects / edited by Elena Sommariva

ARCHITECTURE

• HERNING MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, DENMARK A swatch of Denmark's provinces is an act of faith in art and architecture / DESIGN BY STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS, KJAER & RICHTER A/S; TEXT BY YEHUDA SAFRAN; PHOTOS BY IWAN BAAN
• ZAMET CENTRE, RIJEKA The new public complex by the Croatian architects is frozen in a sequence of staggered volumes / DESIGN BY 3LHD; TEXT BY MAROJE MRDULJAŠ; PHOTOS BY DOMAGOJ BLAZEVIC, 3LHD
• BARCELONA OCULAR MICROSURGERY INSTITUTE On the borderline between city and countryside, reproducing the morphologicy of the site / DESIGN BY JOSEP LLINÁS CARMONA; TEXT BY EDUARDO CADAVAL; PHOTOS BY FILIPPO POLI
• MOS, P.S.1/NEW YORK P.S.1 offers itself to the new generation of American architects as a space for experimentation / DESIGN BY MOS; TEXT BY JOHN MCMORROUGH; PHOTOS BY FLORIAN HOLZHERR
• SUPERSUDAKA.CL, CHILE In Talca, two recent constructions by the Chilean collective / DESIGN, PHOTOS BY JUAN PABLO CORVALÁN & GABRIEL VERGARA; TEXT BY JOSÉ LLANO LOYOLA
• NAOSHIMA BATH Shinro Ohtake extends his personal interpretation of collage to architecture / DESIGN BY SHINRO OHTAKE; TEXT BY FRANCESCA PICCHI; PHOTOS BY OSAMU WATANABE
• SOCIAL HOUSING IN UMBRETE, SEVILLE When funds are minimal, only creativity can make a difference / DESIGN BY SOLINAS + VERD ARQUITECTOS; TEXT BY LAURA BOSSI; PHOTOS BY JESŪS GRANADA
• HOUSE H, TOKYO The latest spatial experiment by the Japanese architect is a variable density house / DESIGN BY SOU FUJIMOTO ARCHITECTS; TEXT BY CATHELIJNE NUIJSINK; PHOTOS BY IWAN BAAN

INTERIORS

• NISSAN PAVILION IN YOKOHAMA Air becomes material: an installation of magic bubbles to match the Japanese automobile manufacturer's eco-friendly research / DESIGN BY TORAFU ARCHITECTS; TEXT LAURENCE HUMIER; PHOTOS BY ALESSIO GUARINO

DESIGN

• LE FORME DELL'ACQUA Poetic and pragmatic approaches to the use of a vital resource: three designs interpret the way water is collected in the bathroom / DESIGN BY GABRIELE & OSCAR BURATTI, ROSS LOVEGROVE, NOTHING DESIGN GROUP; TEXT BY MARIA CRISTINA TOMMASINI
• YOUNG DESIGN REPORT 3 Self-produced one-offs, poised between art, design and prototypes. But real products too. The singularity and irony of these designs encourage optimism / DESIGN BY 5.5 DESIGNERS, BEVK PEROVIC ARHITEKTI, JULIEN CARRETERO, NITZAN COHEN, GAMFRATESI, PEPE HEYKOOP, ELISA HONKANEN, CONSTANTINOS HOURSOGLOU, PAUL LOEBACH, MICHAEL MARRIOTT, LINA MEIER, RAY POWER, HENRIQUE RALHETA + MIGUEL FLOR, DONNA WILSON; TEXTS BY MARIA CRISTINA TOMMASINI; PHOTOS BY PELLE CRÉPIN, TUALA HJARNØ, LIISA KUISMA
• EREDITÀ SOVVERSIVA Simon Collection: tradition and memory set against Estel's industrial background / DESIGN BY CARLO SCARPA; TEXT BY MARIA CRISTINA TOMMASINI; PHOTOS BY ORIANI ORIGONE

ART

• GELITIN Improvisation is alive; you can always take it around with you. Notes for Artissima - the Theater Project, 4-8 November 2009, Turin / DESIGN BY GELITIN; TEXT BY ROBERTO CUOGHI; EDITED BY ANDREA BELLINI
• THE ELMGREEN & DRAGSET SHOW "Powerless structures" used to explore the subtle area that divides public and private / DESIGN BY MICHAEL ELMGREEN & INGAR DRAGSET; TEXT BY CECILIA ALEMANI
• LA MUSICA NASCOSTA Music is the invisible motor that drives the works of Allora & Calzadilla, "touching" the listeners / DESIGN BY JENNIFER ALLORA & GUILLERMO CALZADILLA; TEXT BY VINCENZO LATRONICO
• HOME AWAY FROM HOME Solid memories used for fighting absence, at the Chert Gallery in Britain / DESIGN PETRIT HALILAJ; TEXT BY VINCENZO LATRONICO

INTERSECTIONS

• CLIMATE CHANGE Notes for rethinking cities / GRAPHIC DESIGN BY ONLAB - NICOLAS BOURQUIN, THIBAUD TISSOT; EDITED BY LAURA BOSSI, RICHARD PLUNZ, MARIA PAOLA SUTTO; TEXTS BY RICHARD PLUNZ, JULIE SZE E SIMON SADLER, STEPHEN HAMMER, MATTHEW C. NISBET, CAROLYN STEEL, PATRICIA CULLIGAN, YONA FRIEDMAN, STEFANO CASCIANI

ARCHIVES

• BULLDOZER'S EARTHQUAKE Wright's Imperial Hotel managed to withstand two earthquakes, but not the law of profit / TEXT BY LUIGI SPINELLI; PHOTOS ARCHIVI DOMUS

HIGHLIGHT

• DONI D'AUTORE

BOOKS

• ARCHITECTURE OF THE THIRD REICH A parricidal desire. Seventeen stars. The dynamics of art. Design schools. Living outside the landscape / EDITED BY GIANMARIO ANDREANI

RASSEGNA

• INTERIOR FINISHES From floors to doors, surface finishes and heating elements / EDITED BY MARIA CRISTINA TOMMASINI

Elle Decoration (December 2009)

The latest issue of Elle Decoration is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

CHRISTMAS

• An inspired idea! A decorative way to count down the days to Christmas
• COVER STORY Perfect presents Compiling your ultimate gift list? Here's 43 gorgeous buys to get you started
• COVER STORY All the trimmings A bounty of baubles, cards and wrapping paper
• COVER STORY Everything is illuminated How to add some festive twinkle to your interior with fab fairy lights
• COVER STORY Happy Christmas! Feast your eyes on these three deliciously decadent dining looks
• The scented home A top florist shows us how she transforms her home over the holidays
• COVER STORY 30 steps to a cool yule Our indispensable guide to a stylish and stress-free Christmas
• Eat, drink and be merry Kai Catering's essential ingredients for a great party

SHOPPING

• Find of the month! Paola Navone's new tableware for Richard Ginori
• Shopping news What's hot and happening in the world of design
• Wall of fame Graham & Brown's stylish new collections

NOW

• Need to know! A wonderfully curious 'Looking Glass' decanter by Sebastian Bergne
• All white Martin Margiela's pale and interesting new homewares range
• 10 minutes with... Japanese maestro Naoto Fukasawa
• Design hero The life and works of French Modernist Charlotte Perriand
• Brighten up Why every home should own a Klaus Wuttke
• The book list The hottest reads for your coffee table this month
• Name to know Alexa Lixfeld, the design making concrete cool
• Culture club A pop-up members' club with style and substance
• Neapolitan chic This creative retreat in Naples is a must-visit
• Anatomy of a classic The lowdown on the 1960s 'TrimPhone'

BRITISH DESIGN AWARDS

• COVER STORY The winners Drum roll please ... It's time to reveal who has won what for 2009

HOMES

• Pièce de résistance An effortless fusion of modern edge and classic Parisian elegance
• A novel affair This atmospheric, glamorously grey Dutch home could be straight out of a Dickens tale
• White delight A Copenhagen home that proves an all-white interior needn't look cold or clinical
• One of a kind A sultry palette and a lifetime's collection of art combine to create a unique home in Italy
• Rough luxe How a great deal of vision transformed a London Post Office into a stunning modern home

FOCUS

• COVER STORY Dining room special! Ensure every meal time is an occasion with out round-up of the best chairs, top tables, tasty dinner kit and all the latest looks

FINALLY

• Address book Love it? Here's where to buy it
• Style icon The wonderfully eccentric life of Maxime de la Falaise

Collezioni 138 (Spring/Summer 2010)

The latest issue of Collezioni is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

Exhibitions

Years of luxury -- Silent theatre -- Design objects -- Only in New York -- Couturière des couturiers -- Bauhaus celebrating -- Art by woman -- Foale and Tuffin -- Pop life -- Fashion at the movie theatre -- The Sixties exposed -- Global conservation

Fashion protagonists

Anett Röstel -- Zegna Baruffa -- Charlotte Sparre -- Korda -- Esther Noriega -- Conti Pagliardi -- Anja Gockel -- Fely Campo -- Heidi Beck

What to read

• Bienvenue à la Maison Margiela

Fashion editorials

• Pendant que le loup n’y est pas ... by Céline Seguin, ph. Jean – François Aloisi

Fairs

Salon du prêt a porter Paris -- Lineapelle

Fashionable places

• British style

S/S 10 Fashion Shows

Paris

Contemporary heroines -- Mini dresses -- Mini skirts -- Shorts -- Lingerie -- Plissé -- Ruche -- Red -- Grey -- Prints -- Dustcoats -- Shirts -- Knitwear -- Denim -- Graphics -- Military -- Silver -- Gold -- Night -- Crystals

Monographs

Talbot Runhof -- Wunderkind -- Zuhair Murad -- Christophe Guillarmé & Mont Charles de Monaco

Lookbooks

What's hot in the city -- Sandrina Fasoli -- Efi -- Dice Kayek -- Love Sex Money -- The people of the labyrinths

London

Happy birthday -- Pink -- Lingerie -- Prints -- Colours -- Mix and match -- Knitwear -- Crystals

London Lookbooks

What's hot in the city -- Graeme Armour La Petite Salope -- Louise Amstrup -- Unconditional -- Antoni and Alison

Kiev

Easy listening fashion -- Victoria Gres -- Nota Bene & Kravay -- Zemskova & Vorozhbyt -- Elena Burenina -- Lyudmila Kislenko -- Oksana Karavanska -- Christina Bobkova -- Olena Dats' -- Zalevskiy -- Annette Görtz -- Zavadskiy -- Larisa Lobanova for Garderobchic -- Katya Pshechenko -- Julia Aysina

On stage

• Leather - Friends forever

Cyprus

Prism of creativity -- Afroditi Hera -- Complice-Stalo Theodorou -- Kika Ioannidou -- ne_ne by Marina Nicolaidou

Details

• Drapes, crystals and zip

Fashion weeks

Russian Fashion week -- Portugal fashion -- Holiday fashion week - Odessa -- Istanbul fashion days

Monument 94 (December 2009/January 2010)

The latest issue of Monument is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• TREND REPORT Solar energy is still in its early days, but its development potential is seemingly limitless
• NEWS SITE Laneways By George! report
• GRADUATE PROFILE UTS graduate, Amanda Clarke, seamlessly combines an art and architecture practice
• CLOSE-UP: POWERBOARDS Practical and sleek, these purposeful systems can no longer be overlooked
• OBJECTS Hand-picked by Monument
• DESIGN PROFILE KDa's work was recently showcased at Tokyo's Gallery MA, proving there is far more to this architecture firm that their PechaKucha fame
• WORKSHOP Two years since Matthew Herbert and Rob Maniscalco teamed up to design the flagship Claude Maus store we ask them how it all looks, in hindsight
• IN CONVERSATION Principles of NH Architecture, SJB Architects and Bates Smart discuss CBW
• INTERNATIONAL REPORT David Neustein checks out Experimenta Lisbon 2009
• GLOBAL ROAMING MONUMENT roams the globe to find the newest and best retail stores
• SVARMISK RESORT & SPA Grant Amon Architects creates a warm and inviting dual-purpose space
• 31 QUEEN ST Gray Puksand teamed up with artist Daniel Templeman to refurbish a Melbourne inner-city building, with the objective of establishing a different 'address'
• ROCKWALL BAR & GRILL Dock4 pays due respect to history while still adding their distinctive touch to a new restaurant in Hobart's Salamanca Place
• ARMANI FIFTH AVENUE A serpentine stair introduces wow-factor as it winds up the centre of Fuksas' new Armani store in New York
• CAFE VUE Elenberg Fraser imbues Cafe Vue in Melbourne with a strong sense of theatricality
• THE COOP Matt Gibson A+D's installation playfully references childhood memories of the humble chicken coop
• RETROSPECTIVE Ibis House may be a shadow of its former self, but the once brilliant orange building still has a story to tell
• READING MATTER New book releases
• SITE UNSEEN Projects on the drawing board

Jan Tschichold

Jan Tschichold: master typographer: his life, work & legacy by Cees W. de Jong ... et al. is a new book available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• Introduction / Cees W. de Jong
• Tschichold and the New Typography / Alston W. Purvis
• Tschichold and Poster Design / Martijn F. Le Coultre
• Resurgence of Classical Design / Richard B. Doubleday
• Perfectly Legible and Readable / Hans Reichardt & Cees W. de Jong
• Index of Names
• Selected Literature & Source List
• Illustration Credits

Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder by Barry Schwabsky, Lynne Tillman, Lynne Cooke is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

Interview

• Lynne Tillman in conversation with Jessica Stockholder

Survey

• Barry Schwabsky, The Magic of Sobriety

Focus

• Lynne Cooke, A Suite for ... Three Oranges

Artist's Choice

• Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (extract), 1976
• Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society (extract), 1987

Artist's Writings

• Jessica Stockholder, It's Not Over 'til the Fat Lady Sings, 1987
• The State of Things, Interview with Robert Nickas, 1990
• Interview with Klaus Ottmann, 1991
• Interview with Stephen Westfall, 1992
• Parallel Parking, 1992
• Figure Ground Relations, 1993

Chronology & Bibliography