From: Wallpaper on Fri, Nov 05 2010 9:39 PM

This award-winning film by Marcel Meili and Christoph Schaub tells the story of 'Il Girasole', the rotating modernist house built into the Po Valley hillside in northern Italy. Affectionately termed 'The Sunflower', the house was built in the 1930s by architects Angelo Invern...

From: Wallpaper on Thu, Nov 04 2010 9:38 PM

In an effort to reduce his footprint and generally live happier, TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is looking to rid himself of 'stuff ' and move into a 39sq m New York apartment, without sacrificing good design or luxury. He’s calling the project LifeEdited and is on the hunt for any gre...

From: Wallpaper on Wed, Nov 03 2010 9:38 PM

Paula Scher’s sharp typographic wit and bold design strokes have resulted in a soaring 40-year career, that has taken her from record cover art director for Atlantic and CBS Records in the 1970s to partner at influential design bureau, Pentagram. In this short film - shown at the Architecture an...

From: Wallpaper on Tue, Nov 02 2010 10:33 PM

Musée de Pully and mudac have joined forces to produce a show on contemporary wallpaper titled 'Face au mur. Papiers peints contemporains'. But far from being limited to paper, some artists have gone multi-sensory and taken things to another dimension. German artist Brigitte Zieger cha...

From: Wallpaper on Tue, Nov 02 2010 10:27 PM

Musée de Pully and mudac have joined forces to produce a show on contemporary wallpaper titled 'Face au mur. Papiers peints contemporains'. But far from being limited to paper, some artists have gone multi-sensory and taken things to another dimension. German artist Brigitte Zieger ch...

From: Wallpaper on Tue, Nov 02 2010 10:25 PM

Musée de Pully and mudac have joined forces to produce a show on contemporary wallpaper titled 'Face au mur. Papiers peints contemporains'. But far from being limited to paper, some artists have gone multi-sensory and taken things to another dimension. German artist Brigitte Zieger cha...

From: Wallpaper on Fri, Oct 22 2010 1:25 AM

The 10th October this year - 10/10/10 - is an auspicious date for designers, and not just because it looks so lovely. For many aesthetes the magic of numbers is also a question of scale, and 10/10/10 is as good excuse as any for the Eames Office to relaunch Powers of Ten - a 1968 short film writ...

From: Wallpaper on Thu, Oct 14 2010 11:56 AM

Describing itself as a 'specialist design consultancy', Urban Art Projects (UAP) works with artists, designers, craftsmen, architects and developers to create everything from small- and large-scale art installations to design, architectural and landscape projects. Wallpaper* visit them...

From: Wallpaper on Thu, Oct 14 2010 11:56 AM

More than is probably is wise, producing this magazine can feel like a publishing version of Mission Impossible. Or Mission Unlikely, at least. For the Top 200 issue, one of the missions was to produce ten cover shoots, in ten locations all over the globe. Here, we follow our photographers, mode...

From: Wallpaper on Thu, Oct 14 2010 11:56 AM

German bicycle label Schindelhauer is all about balance. As well as an aluminium frame, which at 8.2kg is light but still rigid it has also perfected the carbon belt drive system to create the quietest, smoothest and cleanest ride yet. But for Treehugger founder Graham Hill, there was still one ...

From: Wallpaper on Thu, Oct 14 2010 11:56 AM

For the latest reimagining of Lacoste’s iconic polo shirt, the company turned to Chinese artist Li Xiaofeng, best known for making fragments of antique porcelain into 'clothes'. Here Xiaofeng takes us through the painstaking process of firing new porcelain, painting them and t...

From: Wallpaper on Thu, Oct 07 2010 11:25 AM

The chilly square of Place Vendôme received a jolt of adrenaline on Tuesday afternoon when Moncler staged a presentation that had more life than any runway show we’ve seen in Paris. As a rocking soundtrack from Jeremy Healy reverberated around the space, a pulsating strobe lightshow worked in ta...

From: Wallpaper on Fri, Oct 01 2010 8:28 AM

The Sergio Rossi woman is ready for battle this season. Among creative director Francesco Russo’s arsenal of sculptural female body armour presented in Milan, there was everything from brass breastplates, torso shields and ankle guards to cuffs, collars and spike-heeled leather boots. The hand-p...

From: Wallpaper on Wed, Sep 29 2010 10:10 PM

To bring guest editor Robert Wilson’s eye-popping video portraits to life on the pages of our October issue, we enlisted the help of creative communications agency Dentsu London. Using an acetate screen and the pre-cinema French technique of Ombro Cinema, Dentsu London animated the portraits and...

From: Wallpaper on Fri, Sep 17 2010 10:21 AM

Wallpaper* teamed up with digital design studio, The Neighbourhood, to envisage the future at Valle de Uco resort in Argentina, which has yet to be built. They transposed our choice of furniture and beautifully dressed models into their architectural visualisations, creating a glimpse of the fut...

From: Wallpaper on Fri, Sep 10 2010 4:01 PM

Using cutting edge 3D projection mapping techniques, Seeper showered the castle in light during Branchage Film Festival in Jersey in 2009, giving a modern day spin to the 1960s supergraphics movement. At first it seems to be simply illuminated but, over time, the entire architectural form of the...

From: Wallpaper on Thu, Jul 29 2010 10:34 AM

Augmented reality is taken to the next, all-immersive level in Keiichi Matsuda’s film, recently presented at London's 3D Film Festival at the Barbican. The architecture graduate and filmmaker has imagined a future world overlaid with digital information, whose built environment can be trans...

From: Wallpaper on Fri, Jul 23 2010 10:13 AM

Blinkart’s Kyle Bean has created a series of dramatic window installations for Selfridges, based on the theory that 'matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed'. In one window, two Honda Fireblade motorcycles are suspended side by side, one in its recognisable form and the...

From: Wallpaper on Fri, Jul 23 2010 10:13 AM

Award-winning film-maker and São Paulo-dweller Marcelo Galvão talks to architect Letícia Nobell, designers Fernando and Humberto Campana and architects Triptyque about their relationship with the city – what it means to them and how it inspires creativity and industry in its residents.Director: ...

From: Wallpaper on Tue, Jul 20 2010 9:52 AM

Shot by Steven Meisel, Prada’s A/W 2010 advertising campaign is set to the rhythm of jazz song, 'Fever', performed by model, Angela Lindvall. Around her are beehived dancers clad in the collection's 1950s silhouettes and 'Swing' sunglasses.