Opinion: a pizza crust stuffed with a hot dog could be the ultimate expression of contemporary design culture, suggests Sam Jacob in this week's opinion column. More »
Tag: Sam Jacob
"The Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza
"Money acts as a piece
of national pageantry"
"Extending copyright for design condemns
us to mid-century modernism"
"There’s no column in the
spreadsheet for ideology"
"Unboxing videos represent
a form of design criticism"
"Offices designed as fun palaces
are fundamentally sinister"
"We can't draft a new world and print it out"
"How can culture exist in a stream
of Photoshopped incontinence?"
Opinion: in the first of his bi-weekly columns for our new Opinion section, Sam Jacob describes the way that sites like Dezeen have unleashed a "design tsunami" and discusses how "the endless spewing of design imagery" is affecting design culture. More »
"Could we be human without objects?"
- Sam Jacob at Dezeen Live
Architect and writer Sam Jacob takes the audience at Dezeen Live on a rapid-fire journey from a prehistoric standing stone to the Argos catalogue and USB cigarettes in this interview filmed at 100% Design during the London Design Festival. More »
Man Made Moon
by Sam Jacob
Architect and writer Sam Jacob wants to transform St Paul's Cathedral in London into a live map of the phases of the moon. More »
"Copying is both fundamental and dangerous
to architecture" - Sam Jacob of FAT
FAT director Sam Jacob explains why he believes that "copying is both fundamental to how architecture develops and something that threatens its foundational belief in originality," in this movie we filmed at the Venice Architecture Biennale, where the firm has created an installation called The Museum of Copying. More »