Pink seesaws built across U.S. border wall win prestigious design award Muri Assunção
A installation of three pink seesaws built across a section of the U.S. border wall has been named by the London Design Museum as the overall winner of the Beazley Designs of the Year 2020.
Installed in July 2019 between the cities of El Paso in Texas and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, the Teeter-Totter Wall was a temporary interactive piece of artwork that enabled “children on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to play together,” according to the museum.
It consisted of “three bright pink see-saws slotted into gaps in the steel boundary wall by the designers,” Ronald Rael, a professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and Virginia San Fratello, an associate professor of design at San José State University.
See-Saws Built On U S Border Wall Win Prestigious Design Prize – Nation & World News
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Young Design Museum
Never short of ways to bring design into the home, London’s Design Museum has a specific area on its website for kids and their parents. Here you’ll find creative resources like worksheets and lesson plans, as well as prompts for hands-on making using objects you can find around the home.
The museum’s Create and Make at Home activity series in particular could help make the coming weeks (or months) in lockdown more engaging – each week, a new task is set which comes complete with a video tutorial. Previous activities include making musical instruments like castanets and banjos out of cardboard, and all past tasks are available to browse on the Young Design Museum website.
Sabine Marcelis judges Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
Sabine Marcelis judges Wallpaper Design Awards 2021
The Rotterdam-based former Wallpaper Designer of the year unveils her upcoming projects in the Netherlands and China, and discusses her picks from this year’s Wallpaper Design Awards
Sabine Marcelis, last year’s Wallpaper Designer of the Year, photographed in her Rotterdam home via Zoom.
Photography: Larry Fink
Despite the challenges faced by the creative industries and beyond, 2020 turned out to be an incredible year for Sabine Marcelis, and 2021 is shaping up to be even grander. ‘At the beginning it was a little bit scary, it felt like projects were disappearing one by one,’ she notes. But things were quick to look up. The Rotterdam-based designer is unveiling two major projects, which follow a series of collaborations presented throughout 2020: residential interventions featuring her signature candy coloured resin elements (which allowed her to explore the use
Remembering the great architects and designers we lost in 2020
To round off our review of 2020, Dezeen looks back at the designers and architects who passed away this year, including Italian designer Enzo Mari, British entrepreneur Terence Conran and Bulgarian artist Christo.
The year also saw the passing of Manlio Armellini, one of the founding fathers of the Salone del Mobile, Hidden Art founder Dieneke Ferguson, French interior designer Christian Liaigre and Enrico Astori, co-founder of Italian design brand Driade.
Other creatives who passed away this year include Bill Menking, co-founder of The Architect s Newspaper, Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti, architect Adolfo Natalini and philosopher and architecture writer Roger Scruton.
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