Publishing house Phaidon has partnered with the Design Museum in London to present Skateboard, a multimedia project that explores the evolution of skateboard design from the ‘50s to today. The venture includes a book and an exhibition, both curated by American industrial designer Jonathan Olivares, and was executed in collaboration with Converse, a brand ingrained in the sports’ inception.The curation explores the cultural peaks of skateboarding through analysis of over 100 significant decks, following notable design changes and historical turning points. In this marriage of counterculture and aesthetics, the skateboard is positioned as a social symbol and an artistic object. Across six themes, organized chronologically by decade, Skateboard studies the material, design, and events that de...
In the seaside town of Margate, curator Ronan Mckenzie has brought a selection of 19 artists and designers together to explore themes of tenderness at the Carl Freedman Gallery. The show, titled "To Be Held", takes place across the entire space. For Mckenzie, it was important for visitors to be fully immersed in the themes she is trying to convey, and as such, employs multisensory activations around the gallery – from scents and textured walls. "This collaboration organically formed through conversations around responding to space, interiors, design, and artwork, informed by the desire to have an expansive experience of everyday spaces," says Mckenzie. Among the 19 artists and designers taking part in the show, a range of disciplines are presented – from furniture to sculpture, and paintin...
Formafantasma, a design studio founded by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, has gained widespread recognition for its innovative and thought-provoking approach to design. At the heart of their work is a belief in the essentiality of considering materiality early on in the design process, a philosophy that underpins their collaboration with Prada Frames, a symposium that explores the intersection of design and environmental sustainability.Unlike traditional design and architecture events, Prada Frames employs a thematic structure, inviting experts from diverse fields, including anthropology, science, archaeology, and geography, to provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of design on the environment and society. This transdisciplinary approach encourages inclusive and equitab...
Prada Frames is an annual symposium that focuses on exploring the intersection of art, design and the environment. The event aims to bring together professionals from various fields to discuss the social, political, and environmental implications of design and explore innovative ways to address these issues. This year, the symposium is curated by Formafantasma, a design and research studio known for its critical use of materials and attention to social and political implications of design.The 2023 Prada Frames symposium is situated in two locations: Hong Kong and Milan. The Hong Kong event recently took place on March 21-22, 2023, at M+, Asia's first global museum of contemporary visual culture, which is dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design, architecture...
Moderna gave its mRNA-based seasonal flu vaccine to the first set of volunteers in a clinical trial, the pharmaceutical company announced today. The start of the trial marks the next stage of the company’s work on this type of vaccine technology after the overwhelming success of its COVID-19 vaccine, which was built using the same strategy. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, mRNA vaccines were still largely experimental, even as they were heralded as the future of vaccine development. People who get an mRNA vaccine are injected with tiny snippets of genetic material from the target virus. Their cells use that genetic information to build bits of the virus, which the body’s immune system learns to fight against. The high efficacy of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTec...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has called for collaboration between the National Assembly and the 36 state Houses of Assembly to make the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution successful. Gbajabiamila, who spoke at a meeting of the Conference of Presiding Officers of Nigerian Legislatures in Abuja at the weekend, noted that the constitutional amendments are to address Nigeria’s foundational problems. The Speaker also stated that the legislature remained the most important arm of government in any democratic setting, according to a statement issued on Saturday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Lanre Lasisi, titled ‘Constitution review: Gbajabiamila Seeks Collaboration Between NASS, State Assemblies…Says Legislature Remains Most Important Arm o...
The Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus has solicited the support of G7 health ministers to meet vaccination targets by the end of the year. In his remarks at the G7 Health Ministers’ meeting in Oxford, Ghebreyesus appealed to the ministers to provide leadership for strengthening WHO on sustainable financing. “First, we seek your support for reaching our vaccination targets for September and the end of the year; sharing doses with COVAX now is essential for achieving those targets. “We need 250 million doses by September and we need 100 million doses just in June and July. “As G7 nations, you are in a unique position to pool doses and make this happen; second, we seek your leadership for strengthening WHO, including through sustainable and predictable f...
The federal government has approved a total of N20,114,002871 for the acquisition of various operational equipment for the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS). The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the federal executive council (FEC) meeting presided over by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo at the presidential villa on Wednesday. The Minister said further that Council also approved the sum of N539,277,673 for the construction of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) building at the Ilupeju Medium and Small Taxpayers’ office in Lagos. On the breakdown of contracts approved for Customs, the Minister said a total of 427 operational vehicles, worth N14.55 billion and nine assorted gunboats worth N5,564,002,871 were a...
Britain’s Prince Charles paid a personal tribute on Saturday to his “dear papa” Prince Philip, saying the royal family missed him emormously and that the 99-year-old would have been amazed at the touching reaction across the world to his death. Philip, the husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth who had been at her side throughout her record-breaking 69-year reign, died at Windsor Castle on Friday. “As you can imagine, my family and I miss my father enormously,” Charles, the couple’s eldest son and heir to the throne, said outside his Highgrove House home in west England. “My dear papa was a very special person who I think above all else would have been amazed by the reaction and the touching things that have been said about him and from that point of view we are, my family, deeply grateful f...