MIPIM report, Cannes

Wallpaper* was a first-timer in MIPIM this year, nevertheless we already knew that in the architecture world, the annual Cannes fair is almost shorthand for large property developments and big investments. It forces everybody to think more realistically about finances, and spells “business” much more clearly than similar gatherings in the architecture agenda, like the Venice Biennale or the London Festival of Architecture.

For more info and to read further please follow this link:

http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/mipim-report-cannes/3197

INFORMATION

Website
http://www.mipim.com

Wallpaper* Select Prints

Wallpaper* Selects

Wallpaper* magazine works with the most exciting and acclaimed photographers in the world, despatching them to far flung corners to shoot boldly and beautifully. Now you have the chance to own limited edition prints of our unique archive of work by Jonathan de Villiers, Mauricio Alejo, Jonathan Frantini, Christopher Griffith, Stefan Ruiz, Daniel Stier, Benedict Redgrove and Joël Tettamanti.

A collaboration between Wallpaper* and contemporary art publishers Eyestorm, Wallpaper* Selects offers you the opportunity to start collecting some of the most compelling contemporary photography, produced in editions of 10, 20 or 30 and signed and numbered by the artists. All of the works have appeared in Wallpaper*, having been commissioned especially for the magazine, but have never before been available to buy.

http://www.eyestorm.com/wallpaperselects

Le Corbusier cards, by Stefi Orazi

Cité de Refuge, Paris, Le Corbusier (1929 - 1933)


Illustrator Stefi Orazi has for some time been taking inspiration for her work from icons of modernist architecture and design across her home city of London, so it wasn't suprising that she had started to look further afield.

INFORMATION
The cards cost £12 for a pack of six.

Website
http://www.thingsyoucanbuy.co.uk

Initial Access Gallery - 'Lightness of Being'

‘Lightness of Being’ is the fifth major exhibition at the new Initial Access Gallery in Wolverhampton. Frank Cohen, fast-building a name as one of Britain’s most exciting and extensive private collectors, has lent the gallery his neon collection, the idea being to shed some new light on the extensive use of neon in contemporary art.

Website
http://www.initialaccess.co.uk

Address
Initial Access
Units 19 & 20
Calibre Industrial Park
Laches Close (off Enterprise Drive)
Wolverhampton WV10 7DZ

RCA Vehicle Design 2008

Vehicle design at the Royal College of Art turns 40 next year. The postgraduate course, with a global reputation for nurturing up-and-coming car designers, boasts an alumni that reads like the who’s who of the car design world.

Winners:
Best concept - Pierre Sabbas
Best use of glazing - Jon Radbrink



Commended:
Raquel Aparicio Lopez
Sergio Loureiro Da Silva
Jung Hoon Rhee

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