Design

Creativity Beyond Belief!

Digging into this story, in Kalkar in 1972, construction was started on the SNR-300, the first large breeding reactor in Germany.

The reactor was designed to use plutonium as fuel and be cooled by sodium, giving it a higher potential for disaster. Opposition built to the power plant, and the highly controversial was continually delayed.

Finally completed at enormous expense, the nuclear facility never opened. Besides community concerns, the reactor would have rendered the building contaminated and unusable, becoming both a political and environmental nightmare.

The building is essentially one of the most expensive, complicated pieces of trash in the world and lives a new life as an amusement park.

Functional Fair Tales

Jenny Ekdahl is currently pursuing her Masters degree at Sweden’s Lund University School of Industrial Design. Her Spring 2011 project “Charms & Disguises,” which was recently exhibited at DMY Berlin, is an exploration of the deeper meaning of fairy tales.

Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club

Design

In a few short weeks, the doors of iconic London fashion school Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design will shutter at 107-109 Charing Cross Road and move to new digs at King’s Cross. Central Saint Martins has most likely produced more creative talent for the fashion industry than any other institution. Aumni include: Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo, and Riccardo Tisci. via Racked

Read our earlier report on Central St Martins moving.

Kanye West Fashion Wrap-up

Kanye West is busy working on a fashion range in Paris Telegraph UK

Rapper Kanye West performs during Day 3 of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival 2011 held at the Empire Polo Club on April 17, 2011 in Indio, California. (Getty Images)Kanye West will present Phoeba Philo of Céline with the International Award at the CFDA awards next Monday night. A reliable source close to West told ‘The Telegraph’ that the star has moved to Paris and will be working on a high-end collection for men and women.

The story also clarifies that West never made a bid to study at the prestigious Central Saint Martens College of Art in London, as earlier reported. West has become ‘firm friends’ with Professor Louise Wilson, head of the MA fashion design degree at CSM.

The Shanghai Museum of Glass Trendland

The Shanghai Museum of Glass is a contemporary concept museum located in a former glassmaking-workshop in the north of Shanghai. On more than 3,500 sqm the museum unfolds the thousand years old story of ancient glassmaking to present day applications for astronautics. Leading an international team of architects, artists, designers, filmmakers and multimedia specialists, COORDINATION ASIA was responsible for art direction and the entire concept, design and supervision of the museum interior, as well as to be a reliable consultant for curation, marketing and operation.