Profiles

Designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have curated an exhibition that celebrates the idea of the ‘Super Normal’

Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s compelling films have often delved into the realms of popular folklore and the supernatural. His latest project, Syndromes and a Century, is no exception

First built in 1964 the Boeing 737 is still one of the most popular aircrafts in the world. Celebrations for the 5,000th plane to be constructed prompt a reconsideration of what we think of as good design

The invention of the Sony Portapak in 1967 – the first mass-produced portable video camera – encouraged artists to experiment with a dizzying new range of approaches and technologies, prompting the launch of the video journal Radical Software

Ivrea is the former campus town of the renowned Italian typewriter company Olivetti and a fine example of successful Modernist design

Since the early 1960s, Jonas Mekas has been documenting his life on film, creating a personal testament to friendship, exile and the flow of history

Born in Munich in 1965, Konstantin Grcic trained as a cabinet-maker and then studied design at Royal College of Art in London. After graduating he worked in Jasper Morrison’s studio before opening his own practice, Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID), in Munich in 1991. He has designed products for companies including Authentics, ClassiCon, Flos, Iittala, Magis, Muji and Plank. KGID, a monograph on his work, is published by Phaidon

The best graphic design must be more than decorative – it has to make sense of its subject

Miranda July is a video and performance artist turned commercially successful filmmaker. What’s the difference?

Art invitations may have become a branding tool, but a Brussels gallery has reintroduced experimentation with an ‘attempt to transcend the banality of the folded newsletter’

Art invitations may have become a branding tool, but a Brussels gallery has reintroduced experimentation with an ‘attempt to transcend the banality of the folded newsletter’

The relationship between cinema and video games is becoming increasingly incestuous

Illustrated posters are a creative antidote to insipid commercial film marketing

An Oscar-winning artist's guide to a fragmented Hollywood experience

Remembering the life and work of one of the most influential and imaginative curators of the last century

Jokes, wordplay and belief systems inform 40 years of experimental filmmaking

Robert Smithson's adventures in time travel on the road to Rozel Point

Two recent books ask why design in the Netherlands is so good - but is it?

Mainstream films are increasingly employing narrative fragmentation and non-linearity – attributes more commonly associated with experimental cinema

In June this year a few hundred people gathered in a terraced field in a remote part of Arcadia in Greece to witness the world premiere of the opening cycles of Gregory Markopoulos' 80-hour film Eniaios (1947-91)