A bright future

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• Larvae lamps

  Lamps made of streptococci, salmonella, or why not coli
  bacteria? Jan Klingler transforms contagiously disgusting
  lth into beautiful light art, while at the same time opening
  the doors to a postanthropocene design that questions the
  design world’s many dogmas.

  par Leo Gullbring
• Money for nothing ?

  If you want a sustainably produced chair, you’ll have to
  cough up. But who says four wooden legs and a cushion also
  have to cost an arm and a leg?

  par Bo Madestrand
• 18 and over

  What were the best, loveliest and smartest things
  that happened in 2018? And what do you hope for next year?
  We asked 16 Nordic designers and architects
  – and got as many answers.

  par Emilia Engblad Béranger
• Light from the east

  The sun, the wind, the water – those are a few of his favourite things.
  Hiroshi Sambuichi, recipient of the 2018 Daylight Awards, incorporates
  elemental flow and nature's fluctuations into his architecture.

  par Nils Forsberg
• Future’s so bright

  Three years ago at the Salone del Mobile in
  Milan, her lighting system Block was nominated
  for an innovation award. Then it was like
  someone pulled the plug. Where did Johanna
  Jacobson Backman go?

  par Nils Forsberg
• King of New York

  With his logo for New York City, Milton Glaser created an immortal
  symbol for the city that never sleeps. Now, at 89, he is still hard at work,
  exhibiting and creating anti-Trump posters.

  par Martin Brusewitz
• Form follows emojis

  The new museum in Helsinki is an Instagram success

  par Daniel Golling
• A self-playing piano

  Renzo Piano's seductive architecture is on show in London.

  par Daniel Golling
• A sinking ship

  Olafur Eliasson's Gesamtkunstwerk is a towering failure.

  par Rasmus Graakjær
• Save Ereskine’s village

  Architect Ralph Erskine's brilliant arts center Skaparbyn is for sale.
  But who will buy it, and how will it be put to use? Nils Forsberg
  presents a modest proposal.

  par Nils Forsberg