Sarah Douglas rewinds a very different year of design at Wallpaper
Sarah Douglas rewinds a very different year of design at Wallpaper
Wallpaper’s Editor-in-Chief looks back on her favourite editorial moments from 2020 – a year when the design world could have stood still, but kept turning, powered by its incredible community
One of more than 1,000 creatives who participated in the #wallpaperpostercampaign, architect and designer Piero Lissoni created this limited-edition cover design for the Wallpaper Summer 2020 issue – a message of solidarity in challenging times
2020 will go down as one of the most challenging, turbulent, and pivotal years in modern history, a year where we retreated into our bubbles as Covid-19 swept across the world. There were protests that compelled the world to address longstanding racial injustice, new warning signs that spurred us to fight the climate emergency, a realisation that the shifting plates of geo-politics will potentially transform
5 to See: Digital Shows
From Taipei to Istanbul, these shows deal with themes of empathy, common perception and communication across borders. Experience global art and culture this winter with
Aestheticaâs selection of five must-see online exhibitions.
, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
This yearâs Taipei Biennial, co-curated by philosopher Bruno Latour, explores the increasingly fractured ways in which different cultures experience ideas of the global â whether they conceive of the world on ecological, economic or nationalist terms, for example â and the need to resolve these differences in an era of gathering ecological catastrophe. For Latour and his collaborator, curator Martin Guinard, âit is as if there were several versions of Earth, with properties and capacities that are so different that they are like distinctive planets.â The physical exhibition takes the form of a âplanetariumâ, with different sections conceptualised as different versio