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materiality
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2017
Elena Etter’s typographic projects explore the materiality of language
Project
2011
Things Part I
Publication
2024
Caitlin McLoughlin’s design for Worms celebrates printed matter as ephemeral objects of representation
Project
2016
Artist Casey Gray transforms the mundane into the distinctive
Project
2014
Dan Tobin Smith's triumphant show celebrates colour-coded clutter
Poster
2015
Architecture is Everywhere
Project
2011
Karla Black
Publication
2024
When designing books, Claire Huss is unafraid of bold crops and unexpected colour combinations
Project
2016
Wilfrid Wood on style in the sculpture studio
Project
2010
Dose Espresso
Project
2019
Steph Wilson photographs the “boiled sweets and dehydrated piss”-like quality of salt lakes
Project
2019
Pastor/Placzek questions the notion of surface through its interaction design work
Project
2011
Made by Hand
Project
2011
Thomas Forsyth: Build Brass Nuts
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Hella Jongerius
Project
2019
Florent Tanet explores the "excessive passion" of building an aquarium
Project
2013
A host of stunning updates from textural masters Giles Miller Studio
Motion
2021
Norman Wilcox-Geissen photographs the tactile and poetic work of designer-maker Joseph Walsh
Project
2018
Designer Carolien Niebling wants you to meet the meat we eat
Project
2012
Jasper Nijs industrialises breakfast-time with ruthless efficiency
Project
2016
Tim Lahan: "I gravitate toward the rocks because they feel so certain and immovable"
Project
2009
Livia Marin - Broken Things
Project
2017
Why materials matter: Seetal Solanki on the Grenfell Tower tragedy
Publication
2019
Laura Coombs presents her Bookshelf, and it’s all about attention to materiality
Project
2025
Nata Metlukh has reconnected with the physical world, and we should all be happy about it
Project
2021
“It’s what’s in between that counts”: Ibrahim Azab on his layered and deconstructed artworks
Project
2018
Photographer Carl Oliver Ander examines “the false relationship to reality that the medium has”