Design

Theatricalizing the design process online

In a new occasional column, frieze asks a respondent to nominate the objects, people or ideas that have influenced them

How do you rebrand a museum?

This year, the Billy Apple® brand turns 50. The artist formerly known as Barrie Bates talked to Anthony Byrt about a career of collaborations and controversies that has consistently redefined art’s relationships with advertising, science and technology

Measuring success in community design projects, from Dakar to Newfoundland

Thomas Lommée’s inclusive approach to modular design

Exhibiting comics: the graphic novels of Daniel Clowes and his contemporaries

A survey of modern living in California, biennials in Asia and a new generation of design studios

The great philosopher provides clarity and precision to interior decoration

How the US Army is adopting design methods normally reserved for the creative disciplines

Newly published translations of the work of two overlooked design prophets

Since the 1970s Barbara Bloom has used photography, installation, film and books as a means of looking at issues of collecting, museology, design, taste and our investment in the objects with which we surround ourselves. In this project for frieze, created together with writer Susan Tallman, Bloom – who is referred to throughout as ‘BB’ – presents selections from her 2008 installation and book The Collections of Barbara Bloom, a work about ‘the way things carry ideas’

A roundup of recent design publications, from the history of a pioneering design shop to the fashioning of the first space suit

Peter Saville’s England football kit and avant-garde toys; a MacArthur Award for typographer Matthew Carter and a farewell to three design legends

Whether re-making found furniture or organizing a makeshift ‘Trattoria’, Martino Gamper produces ad hoc solutions for living

Re-branding débâcles, online fonts, the closure of Gourmet magazine, the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus and a new film

How designers are adopting the strategies of Conceptual art

The New Ducati 999

M/M's refashioning of Paris Vogue

Edward R. Tufte and the art of data presentation