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Mohsen Shahmanesh

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Posts by Mohsen Shahmanesh:
  • Russian Avant-Garde Theatre, War, Revolution, Design
  • Book review: Redesigning Leadership
  • Book review: Design as Politics
  • Music as design: Kafka Fragments
  • Turner prize: Sound as sculpture
  • Frieze Art 2010: Erotic vs voyeuristic
  • The artist and their milieu
  • The Makropulos Case
  • Alice Neel: Saving portraiture

observations

The images are captivating. They show smiling children playing on pink seesaws across the crude brown wall at the US/Mexican border.

The interactive installation went up on 28 July 2019 and lasted just 40 minutes before border guards ordered its removal. Then the pictures went viral.

Now the ‘Teeter-Totter Wall’ by Californian architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello has won the prestigious Beazley Designs of the Year 2020 in London Design Museum’s annual competition.

Take a closer look at this brilliant act of political art here

Latest

  • Playful seesaw installation at Trump wall wins 2020 Beazley Designs award
  • Explore the work of architect David Adjaye in new book
  • 2020 in review: A year in design and rethinking the future
  • How ideas from RCA students for a megacity taxi in 2040 can impact on our future
  • See Balenciaga’s first virtual show, a video game set in 2031 with avatars driving Polestars
  • Studio Wayne McGregor investigates the human/machine relation in the information age
  • MINI Vision Urbanaut is a shape-shifting EV that rethinks personal transport’s form and function
  • From wabi-sabi to crafting sustainable surfboards, why we should all take up making
  • Interview: Adrian van Hooydonk on the radical BMW iX and lessons from the pandemic
  • Race, identity, technology are themes leading Rolls-Royce’s latest arts commission
  • See how tech firm Komma is rethinking future cities
  • Book review: Takenobu Igarashi A-Z explores 3D graphics of cult designer
  • See why Arksen’s eco marine adventures challenge the landscape of luxury travel
  • Interview: Virgil Abloh and Gorden Wagener imagine a new kind of luxury design
  • From #MeToo to #BlackLivesMatter: How the car industry could do better
  • Rolls-Royce Ghost is a peek into the new face of luxury
  • The ultimate car accessory could be this Negroni Trunk
  • How the luxury landscape will change post-pandemic
  • Classic adventure in the Adirondack Guideboat
  • How will in-car UX design evolve with AI, AR, and 5G?
  • Mercedes design chief Gorden Wagener on how he plans to take the brand into the sustainable era
  • Why businesses should support the arts post-pandemic
  • From post-opulence to pos-hedonism, meet the new age of luxury
  • Is the future of luxury defined by post-opulence?
  • Can computational design, using VR, AI, and gaming, advance design?
  • What some carmakers have been up to in the time of the coronavirus
  • An interview with industrial designer Ross Lovegrove
  • Time for change after the coronavirus pandemic
  • Covid-19: When industry, science, engineering, design join forces
  • A big salute to Spring

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contact

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Schools

  • Academy of Art Univeristy
  • Art Center College of Design
  • Braunschweig University
  • Central Saint Martins
  • Créapole
  • Danish School of Design
  • die graphische
  • DSK Supinfocom
  • Eindhoven Design Academy
  • ELISAVA
  • ENSAD
  • Hochschule
  • IAAD
  • Istituto Europeo di Design
  • Kanazawa Design Institute
  • National Institute of Design
  • Parsons
  • Pforzheim University
  • Royal College of Art
  • School of Visual Arts, NYC
  • The Arts Institutes
  • The Institute of Design
  • Tu Delft University
  • University of Art London

Designers

  • BarberOsgerby
  • BIG
  • Cappellini
  • DesignworksUSA
  • Hella Jongerius
  • Hussein Chalayan
  • Jacob Jensen Design
  • Jaime Hayón
  • Jasper Morrison
  • Konstantine Grcic
  • MAD
  • Nendo
  • Ole Scheeren
  • OMA
  • Patricia Urquiola
  • Peter Marigold
  • REX
  • Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
  • Ross Lovegrove
  • Spinach Branding & Design
  • Stuart Haygarth
  • Tom Dixon
  • Yashu e Prem
  • Yves Béhar

Galleries

  • Cass Sculpture Foundation
  • Danish Design Centre
  • de Young Museum
  • Delhi Art Gallery
  • Design Miami
  • Design Museum
  • Design Museum Holon
  • Friedman Benda
  • Gallery Libby Sellers
  • Getty
  • Lisson Gallery
  • Louisa Guinness Gallery
  • Museum of Architecture
  • Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Museum of Craft & Design
  • Museum of Modern Art
  • Palais de Tokyo
  • Stedelijk Museum
  • Tate Modern
  • The Mosaic Rooms
  • The Wapping Project
  • V&A Museum
  • Vitra Design Museum
  • White Cube

Publishers

  • ACC
  • Anteism
  • Assouline
  • BanksThomas
  • Berg
  • Braun
  • Daimiani Editore
  • Flammarion
  • Harper Collins
  • Laurence King
  • Mark Batty
  • MIT Press
  • Motorbooks
  • Octopus
  • Phaidon
  • Princeton Architectural Press
  • Princeton Press
  • Red Stone Press
  • Rizzoli New York
  • SKIRA
  • Taschen Books
  • Tate Publishing
  • teNeues
  • Thames & Hudson

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