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Browsing Illusion

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Design

Rubber soul: Designer creates furniture cast from rubber

Milan – When working on her graduate project at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Nynke Koster realised she could use her interest in moulds and casting to take a piece of the iconic building away with her.

'Green House' by Kyung Woo Han
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Retail

In the air: Designer’s illusion could inspire retail spaces

Seoul – Artist Kyung Woo Han’s installation, Green House, appeared to be a flooded room filled with floating furniture, when in reality it was clever painting and specially constructed chairs.

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Fashion

Lucid Spectrum

Designers are exploring concepts of playfulness and perception, creating intense rainbows of colour across surfaces, resulting in spectrums of light reflecting and refracting off natural and built environments.

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Retail

Magic touch: A retail interior to reflect on

Sydney – For his first stand-alone store, Australian designer Dion Lee turned to interior design agency Akin Creative to translate his minimalist aesthetic into a retail space.

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Fashion

Grid reference: Kane puts Vectorism on the fashion map

London – Texture was king at Christopher Kane’s AW14/15 catwalk show, but among all the PVC and bobble knits there were five standout finale looks, featuring organza that looked less fluid and more structured than ever before.

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Technology

Hit parade: Music video revives Magic Eye trick

Canada – Rock band Young Rival’s latest music video is a moving optical illusion.

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Design

Shades of grey: Salon creates illusion of light

Tokyo – The GreeM salon in Tokyo is not an ideal space for a business where good lighting is considered pivotal. But Takara Space Design, which designed the space, used trompe-l’oeil paintings to make up for the small windows, which only allow in a little natural light to the studio.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Moment Factory

Airports are undergoing an unexpected renaissance, turning from stressful no-man’s lands into attractive destinations in their own right.

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Europe

Origami office: Fluid building faèade made of marble

Paris – Most of the buildings that line the avenues of central Paris date from the 19th century and follow a certain aesthetic, but what if a contemporary building were to be erected?