Posted on August 19, 2010 by Catherine Osborne | Comments
Categories: Product design, Art
Lily Yung, one of Toronto’s most original jewellery designers, has died. She will be remembered for her bold, beautiful and utterly unique necklaces, bracelets and rings.
Q&A with Ceramic Artist Li Xiaofeng
Posted on August 18, 2010 by Tory Healy | Comments
Categories: Art, Shopping, Fashion, Q&A
In our September issue, now on newsstands, we show how Li Xiaofeng used his fractured ceramic aesthetic to create a unique polo shirt for Lacoste. For this web exclusive, Azure went behind-the-scenes with the prolific artist just before he debuted his off-the-rack line, and specially made sculpture at Paris' Musée des Arts et Métiers in June.
Posted on August 17, 2010 by Nina Boccia | Comments
Categories: Architecture, Events, Q&A
Earlier this month, renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking ominously predicted, "The long-term future of the human race must be in space." An exhibit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal is light years ahead of Hawking.
Daniel Emma at New York Gift Fair
Posted on August 16, 2010 by Elizabeth Pagliacolo | Comments
Categories: Product design, Events
The Australian studio, represented by Neo-Utility, brings a Memphis feel to their geometry-themed accessories collection.
U.S. Winner of James Dyson Award announced
Posted on August 13, 2010 by Elizabeth Pagliacolo | Comments
Categories: Product design, Events
The 2010 James Dyson Award chose the Copenhagen Wheel, a wheel that turns a regular bike into an electric hybrid, as the winner of its U.S. entries.
