Just as it starts to hit the newsstands, the 2009 Annual Design Review exhibit has gone up at the Material ConneXion showroom in New York. Check out the panoramic video above for a peek at the space (sorry about the blurriness—we’re still getting the hang of our new iPhone). If you’re in town this summer, stop by to see the winners and judge them for yourself.




Annual Design Review Exhibit

June 25 – August 21
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Monday through Friday
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Material ConneXion
60 Madison Avenue, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10010
(212) 842-2050
materialconnexion.com

Droog co-founder Renny Ramakers

February 26, 2009. Last night, Droog injected some much-needed levity into the New York scene with the opening of its first freestanding store in the city, on Soho's Greene Street. The interior was designed by Jurgen Bey (Studio Makkink & Bey), and the commemorative ceramic cups given out to partygoers were by Jan Broekstra. We shot a video of co-founder Renny Ramakers explaining the idea behind the blue foam funhouse that serves as the store's centerpiece—turns out it's for sale, too. For pictures and more information on the store interior, stay tuned for our June issue New + Notable section!

February 18, 2009. Pedestrians may do a double take while walking through the streets of Courbevoie, France. BP Architectures have built two identical additions onto two completely different elementary schools that happen to share the same block ...

Artist Olafur Eliasson at TED, presenting projects like his Waterfalls

February 6, 2009. Julie Lasky, I.D.'s editor-in-chief, is currently in California for the 2009 TED Conference, from which she's posting a series of daily reports. Here's her recap of Thursday's events: There was sweet irony in the complaint (overheard during a coffee break on TED’s second day) of a long wait for the restroom—the complaint came from a man! The crowd of 1,500 TEDsters at Long Beach doesn’t look overwhelmingly male, and the speakers have represented a broad-minded mix of sexes ...

Toronto-based graphic artist Sandy Plotnikoff's foil-stamped Gold Desk, with Mazzie Design

February 6, 2009. For the second year in a row, in conjunction with Interior Design Show, Toronto's MADE showroom is inviting local design loyalists to Radiant Dark 2009: Elegant Corruptions, a curated exhibition featuring 33 up-and-coming Canadian design studios. Among the featured designers...

At the TED conference yesterday, Yves Behar unveiled a groundbreaking new motorcycle.

February 5, 2009. Julie Lasky, I.D.'s editor-in-chief, is currently in California for the 2009 TED Conference, from which she's posting a series of daily reports. Here's her recap of Wednesday's events: Yesterday I shared a cab from the hotel to the conference center with Jim Phillips, the former CEO of Motorola and current CEO of The Pinnacle Group, an investment company in Memphis ...

February 3, 2009. Curio connoisseur, hardware hobbyist—it doesn't matter how you define Candy Depew. When it comes down to it, she just really, really likes decorative art. The Philadelphia-based artist takes pride in beautifying living spaces with her playful and provocative collection of objects, currently on display at Philadelphia University's Design Center in an installation called Housing Project. Depew sprinkled the former living spaces of The Design Center with self-made objects: porcelain trinkets in the bedroom, custom-printed fabrics swathing pillows in the den, handmade ball gowns dressing mannequins in a speakeasy salon. The former Pew fellow was inspired by the five years she spent as an artist-in-residence at various programs and by her subsequent housesitting for more than 50 residences during that time. Through April 3. www.philau.edu

Hungarian pottery, part of an exhibition on view now at New York's Forbes Galleries

January 28, 2009. The country that gave us the ballpoint pen and the Rubik's Cube is looking for a little cultural recognition in the U.S. this year. Already underway, the Extremely Hungary yearlong festival will showcase contemporary Hungarian artists in both New York City and Washington, D.C., complete with cooking classes at the French Culinary Institute (goulash anyone?) and a mustache contest held in hipster enclave Williamsburg, Brooklyn ...

Czech-born architect Jan Kaplicky, who passed away this week

January 16, 2009. Articles and blog posts that have been circulating around I.D.'s office for the past week:

Visionary architect Jan Kaplicky is dead at age 71 [The Guardian]
...recession special:
T's Pilar Viladas responds to the Cannell vs. Moss debate [The Moment]
Seven questions architects need to ask themselves now [Design Intelligence]
Starck, Allsopp, and Conran: Don't pay retail, invest in wine [The Guardian]