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Never Ever Ever Land (exhibition catalogue), MAY 2012
The intimate unfolds into the sublime. Dyspeptic utopia of philandering fenetres. The distinction between quotidian opposites is synthesized into unitarian pairs of disturbing dyads, with a touch of leavening humor to boot. Artists inhabit and feed fantasy-lands of compelling worlds within worlds, and offer them to us. Read more... |
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British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age, APR 2012
Celebrating the best design in Britain, this landmark book highlights the range of British creativity since the London Olympics 1948. Drawing on more than 350 of the finest examples of British art, architecture, photography, fashion, textiles, furniture, graphic design, video games and product design, British Design from 1948 is a comprehensive survey of more than 60 years of British ingenuity. Read more... |
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Officiel Levant (Lebanon), APR 2012
"CONTRE LA MONTRE" Elastique et incompressible, le temps est, pour tout designer et artiste qui se respecte, un matériau rêvé. À la fois parfaitement objectif et totalement subjectif, il devient le théâtre de toutes sortes de mises en scène. Le digne récipient d’une réativité débridée, lancée dans une éternelle course contre la montre. Tic-tac, tic-tac. TROÏKA Démonstration évidente du potentiel poétique de la technologie, les installations imaginées par le collectif londonien Troïka se situent toujours au croisement de l’art, du design, du high-tech et de la critique sociale. Exemplaire, l’horloge électroluminescente “All The Time In The World”…. Par Marie LE FORT Read more... |
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21 Twenty One - 21 Designers for twenty-first century Britain, MAR 2012
This book looks at the work of 21 designers living and working in Britain who have come to prominence since the millennium. It places their ongoing work in context, with interviews, commentary and evaluation - and examines what design means, and can mean, for the public, government, galleries and the designers. Read more... |
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Curious Minds: New Approaches in Design (exhibition catalogue), MAR 2012
Curious Minds: New Approaches in Design signals a changing world in which technology and technological research push the boundaries of creativity to produce design solutions that challenge paradigms and stretch the mind in a notably poetic way. Read more... |
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'The Space between Now and Then' (exhibition catalogue), FEB 2012
'The Space between Now and Then' is a group exhibition that positions twenty international and mexican multidisciplinary artists within a topography of architecture, dynamism, and threshold: the complex space of galleria OMR. Whether our perspective is spatial or temporal, cognitive or emotional, focus is naturally drawn to the two distinct points -now and then. Produced by curator Natalie Kovacs and Cristobal Riestra of Galleria OMR, the exhibition considers what comes between the two, and how we respond to it by creating a bridge between time, political difference, narrative and architectural distinctions. Read more... |
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V&A, AUG 2011
The collections are at the heart of everything the V&A does. Above all, this annual review celebrates the myriad ways that people engage with and are inspired by the Museum's collections. The V&A commissioned Troika to create a new permanent sign for the Museum entrance in the London Underground tunnel below Exhibition Road. Installed in July 2010, the kinetic sign entitled Palindrome plays on the strong typographic qualities of the iconic V&A logo designed in 1988 by Alan Fletcher. Read more... |
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Novum, AUG 2011
Their works have been already exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Art Institute of chicago, the Tate Britain and the MoMa in New York, but you don't have to go to a museum to enjoy the fascinating installations and sculptures of the london-based design group Troika. Read more... |
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See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception, JUN 2011
See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception by Madeline Schwartzman, is the first book to survey the fascinating relationship between design, the body, science and the senses. Over the last 50 years, artists, architects and designers have been experimenting with the boundaries of our senses, altering the way we experience the world. TROIKA's work and practice is featured in the book which examines the work of key practitioners in this field, from Rebecca Horn’s object based installations and Stelarc’s robotic body extensions, to Carsten Hollers’ physically interactive sculptures. Read more... |
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Love Earth, JUN 2011
Gathering 100 fashion-forward eco-designs, spanning the fields of architecture, graphics, products and experimental arts, Love Earth draws a page from the commendable achievements of today's design industry and highlight the practical and inspiring eco-designs that aim for a chic and sustainable green living for all. With stresses on their approach, ranging from aspects of inspirations, appeal, functionality and material, these eco-innovations represent the new directions of thinking that consider motivation and needs, the primary drive behind behaviour and change. Read more... |
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Creative Review, APR 2011
"Alan would have loved that," says Newark of the kinetic sign. "Like any designer, he was torn between identities or logos that have a rigidity and a sameness, but also wanting it to constantly renew itself and be fresh and evolve. And the way that they're doing that, it seems to me, is just perfect." Read more... |
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SALT, MAR 2011
London-based studio Troika uses public spaces such as Heathrow Terminal Five to display its installations. Now, it has reworked a piece for Design Miami/, commissioned by Swarovski. Read more... |
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Intramuros, MAR 2011
Design Miami – the American extension of the Design Basel Contemporary Art fair – wrapped up with a very promising outlook. With buyers out in force and improved quality offering. Read more... |
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BOB, FEB 2011
트로이카의 조명 인스톨레이션 <내리는 빛>이 2010 디자인 마이애미의 스와로브스키 크리스털팰리스에전시됐다. 이인스톨레이션은크리스털광학렌즈, 컴퓨터프로그램으로 작동되는 모터, 그리고 LED 백광 등 5 0개의 기계 장치들로 구성되어 천장에 설치됐다. 회전식 캠은 LED 광원 부를 상하로 움직이게 하여 역동적인 빛 방울을 드리우게 하고, 크리스털렌즈는프리즘과같은역할을하며백광을분산시켜무지개의빛으로변화시킨다. Read more... |
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Madame AF, FEB 2011
Trio de choc - A trois, ils mènent la danse. Européens dans l’âme, Sébastien Noël, Eva Rucki et Conny Freyer imaginent des installations quelque part entre art, design et high‑tech qui défient, avec poésie, les lois de la physique. Rencontre. Read more... |
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Art & Business, FEB 2011
공공 공간에 활력을 불어넣은 트로이카의 움직이는 공공 디자인 아트 영국의 아트·디자인 스튜디오 트로이카(Troika)가 움직이는 디자인 작품으로 공 공 공간을 변화시키고 있다. 먼저 토론토 코러스 빌딩 천장에 설치한 ‘물고기 떼 (Shoal)’는 아크릴로 만든 467개의 모형을 매달아 물고기 떼를 형상화한 것이다. 일정한 패턴으로 회전하는 작품은 마치 바닷 속을 헤엄치는 물고기처럼 보인다. 또 런던 히드로 공항 터미널5 라운지에 설치한 ‘구름’은 길이 5m, 폭 2m, 높이 1m의 구조물로, 표면이 4638개의 원판으로 뒤덮여 있다. 앞면은 은색, 뒷면은 검은색으 로 칠한 원판은 일정한 간격을 두고 앞뒤로 뒤집어 지는데, 이 작품 또한 끊임없이 변하는 구름을 표현한 것이다. 마지막으로 런던 빅토리아 앤 알버트 뮤지엄으로 연 결되는 지하보도에 설치된 ‘회문(palindrome: 앞에서 읽으나 뒤에서 읽으나 같은 단어)’ 역시 V&A 로고에 움직임을 적용해 공공 공간에 활력을 불어넣는다. Read more... |
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HYPERLINKS: ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, DEC 2010
Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design investigates new directions that are helping shape two important fields of practice for the twenty-first century. Coauthored by Zoë Ryan, the Art Institute's Neville Bryan Curator of Design and Acting John H. Bryan Curatorial Chair of the Department of Architecture and Design, together with Joseph Rosa, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, this significant publication, like the exhibition it accompanies, explores the fluid exchanges taking place between architecture and design. Read more... |
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Outer Worlds, Exhibition Catalogue, DEC 2010
The launch exhibition Outer Worlds is focused upon territories unknown – the outer reaches of space and imagination that symbolise a very human desire to expand beyond our quotidian existence. Artists and writers have always imagined, depicted and created other worlds. Many have taken the journey towards the unknown, sometimes expanding on existing scientific knowledge but often leading the way. Manned space flight, geostationary satellites and data collecting probes all existed in the cultural imaginary before they were realised [...] With the Electroprobe we may listen to our electronic surroundings: electric babblings, magnetic hums, and inaudible whistles. Electronic objects now have a rich vocabulary; thinking, dreaming and arguing through a system of electronic brainwaves, organic signals, bluetooth monologues and wireless fantasy. The Electroprobes let us explore our relation to what we perceive as inanimate objects, revealing a secret sonic world. Read more... |
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Expo Shanghai, Plot, OCT 2010
Statt einer klassischen Ausstellung gestaltete Troika ein narratives Konzept, das aus drei immersiven und mehrschichtigen Installationen besteht: "Green City". "Open City", und "Living City" sollen die Beziehungen zwischen der Natur und den Britischen Städten - gestern, heute und morgen- verdeutlichen. Read more... |
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Troika, It's Nice That, OCT 2010
As our world becomes increasingly reliant on technological advances, we naturally see a change in the way traditional artistic platforms are addressed. No longer are we confined to traditional media, but instead presented with a wealth of opportunities that allow for a much more unexpected set of creative results. Troika are a London-based studio made up of astute communication and product designers who have intelligently used technology as a fantastic tool for this artistic production. Read more... |
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The Art Of Travel, BA High Life, OCT 2010
Alongside works from the BA collection, including David Nash's sensuous charcoal drawings, an iconic Damien Hirst spot print, a tapestry in silk by Gary Hume and two paintings by Toby Ziegler - passengers on BA flights were astonished by special commissions wherever they looked. (...) This sense of freedom reaches its most exhilarating point in Cloud, a 5m-long sculpture suspended over the entrance to the lounges at terminal 5. Read more... |
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Triple Jump, FRAME, SEP 2010
The TROIKA Trio wants to subvert our expectations, play with conventions and revive obsolete technologies. You may not have heard of Troika, but if you've travelled through Heathrow's sleek new Terminal 5 since its opening in 2008, chances are you've seen the art and design studio's work. Read more... |
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It's a museum piece with tunnel vision, Metro, AUG 2010
Sometimes you need a sign. And sometimes you need something with a bit more magic. London's Victoria & Albert Museum wanted to find a new way to direct visitors from South Kensington Tube station to its entrance in the tunnel underneath Exhibition Road, so it called on art and design studio Troika for a creative solution. Read more... |
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Neo Neon, Etapes , APR 2010
Installee au terminal 5 de l'aeroport d'Heathrow (Londres), la creation typographique du studio Troika est susceptible de delivrer toutes sortes d'informations. Read more... |
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Digital Dreams, Designindaba, FEB 2010
Troika’s steampunk experiments and installations raise questions about the real function of technology. Nadine Botha asks whether Troika can inspire us to redesign obsolescence. Read more... |
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Troika, It's Nice That, OCT 2009
When you unearth Troika, you unearth a wealth of new technologies, reams of mind-bogglingly brilliant concepts and inspirational installations. And that's before you've even touched on their enviable passion for two-dimensional graphics. Read more... |
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The Icon 20/20 Vote, Icon, MAY 2009
Conny Freyer, Sebastien Noel and Eva Rucki have found a way to champion both new technology and old technology. Read more... |
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Profile, Grafik, APR 2009
At the East London galleried studio occupied by art and design practice Troika, a little espresso coffee machine catches my eye. Read more... |
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Review: Digital By Design, Page, FEB 2009
Mit Projekten wie einer elektroluminiszenten Weltzeituhr fuer den Flughafen Heathrow oder dem juengst fuer das Digitalfilmfestival onedotzero realisierten digitalen Zoetrope gehoert Troika selbst zur digitalen Avantgarde. Read more... |
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Cloud, Plan, JUN 2008
Troika, a multi-disciplinary art and design practice, was founded in 2003 by Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel who met while studying at the Royal College of Art in London. Read more... |
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Profile Cloud Troika, Lab, JUN 2008
Do you remember the times when there were screens with flip plates instead of digital displays at railway stations and airports? Heathrow Airport management decided to return this travel accessory to life and commissioned Troika to create a digital sculpture, which would breathe life into flipdots again in the 21 century. Read more... |
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Silver lining, Interior Design, MAY 2008
Every seasoned traveler has seen electromagnetic flip-dots, once used to form letters and numbers on departures and arrivals boards. But travellers passing through Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners's new Terminal 5 at London Heathrow airport haven't seen the small disks arranged quite like this before. Read more... |
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Lighting the way, Metropolis, MAY 2008
A wall-size digital world clock at the entrance lobby to the British Airways lounges adapts Elumin8 electroluminescent technology using custom-made segmented typefaces. Read more... |
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Troika Profile, Creative Review, APR 2008
Most readers will be familiar with the buzzing sound heard in headphones or over the stereo just before a mobile phone close by starts to ring. This is the sound of electromagnetic interference - annoying to most, but for Sebastien Noel, and inspiration. Read more... |
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New doesn't always mean better, Icon, APR 2008
A small group of designers is rejecting the cutting edge and turning to redundant technology from the recent past. They are creating works that they feel have warmth and richness lacking from the digital age. Read more... |
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Typo Showcase, Grafik, MAR 2008
If you happen to find yourself gliding through the British Airways lounge on your way to the First and Concorde Galleries lounges at Heathrow Terminal 5, you'll be visually serenaded by a 22m-long typographic installation by Troika. Read more... |
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Terminal 5 has arrived, Icon, MAR 2008
Terminal 5 has arrived and is home to a series of artworks by Troika, El Ultimo Grito, Christopher Pearson and Oona Culley. The works - curated by London-based practice Artwise- were commissioned by British Airways for six lounges at Heathrow for the airline's premium passengers. Read more... |
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A Blank Canvas, Creative Survey, NOV 2007
Creativity is about thinking laterally and making new connections. It is about challenging the existing and about reinterpreting the past. Knowledge. persistence, play and willingness to take risks are essential. Read more... |
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Two sonic marshmallows, Icon, JUN 2007
Two sonic marshmallows have been installed in a park in Essex by London-based design studio Troika. The concave steel cylinders stand facing each other on opposite sides of a lake. Their shape focuses sound, allowing people in front of the cylinders to hear each other's whispers 60m across the water. Read more... |
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Technocraft, Wallpaper, MAR 2007
Meet the technocrafters. A new wave of tech-savvy designers are eschewing careers with the global electronics corporations, and instead producing one-off and limited edition products. Read more... |
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SMS Guerrilla Projector, Creatie, SEP 2006
SMS Guerilla Projector. Behalve dat het ontwerp 'retro-futuristisch' aandoet en erg mooi is in mijn beleving, is het de toepassing waarop de extra punten worden gescoord. Read more... |
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An sms guerrilla projector, Icon, JUN 2006
An SMS Guerilla Projector displayed text messages on to the fans and walls at a concert by The Streets at London's Astoria. Created by London-based design studio Troika, the hand-held device projected messages written by The Streets singer Mike Skinner. Read more... |
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The tool for armchair activists, Icon, APR 2006
The Tool for Armchair Activists allows you to rail against the world from the comfort of your home. It is a device that relays your text messages as computerised speech through a public megaphone. This arrangement was so simple that it took London-based design collective Troika just a week to construct. Read more... |
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Bright Ideas, Dazed&Confused, FEB 2006
It may be good to talk, but it's even better to project what you are thinking onto complete strangers, as multi-faceted design company Troika explain. Read more... |
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Phone Tag, Wired, DEC 2005
The SMS Guerilla Projector - a Nokia cell phone attached to a miniature projector with a long-throw lens - can cast text messages more than 80 feet away onto street signs, buildings, and unsuspecting passersby; once it was even used to beam questions into people's living rooms. Read more... |
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Creators Work & Soul, Axis, OCT 2005
The three members of Troika all met at the RCA. Rucki and Freyer, born in West and East Germany respectively, both studied graphic design outside Germany before coming to London. Read more... |
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Review: Moscow Style, ArtReview, MAY 2005
Since the demise of the Soviet Union 15 years ago Moscow has not only undergone extraordinary transformations socially and politically but creatively too. Read more... |
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Review: Moscow Style, Grafik, MAY 2005
In it's 200 pages Moscow Style presents us with a selection of the contemporary fashion, graphics, photography, architecture and art that is to be found in the Russian capital. Read more... |
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Studio Troika, Bang, MAR 2005
La Vanguardia, La revolución y la guerrilla tienen cada vez menos significado, o al menos no tienen el que tenían antes. A día de hoy, un estudio de arte con talento para hacer inventos tocapelotas son mis héroes del momento. Read more... |
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Moscow Style, Creative Review, MAR 2005
Cover to Moscow Style, a book documenting the graphic design, art, architecture and fashion scene in the Russian capital to be published this month by Booth-Clibborn Editions. Read more... |
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Restaurant On-Demand, DHD, MAR 2005
Troika On-Demand Restaurant is something completely new dedicated to the people who love their food. To taste the specialties prepared by the award-winning chefs, a simple telephone call is all that is needed. Read more... |
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Neue Kraft, Page, FEB 2005
Nach einem Computerspiel, nämlich dem klassischen Ego-Shooter 'Half Life', hat das Moskauer Künstlerkollektiv AES+F einige ihrer juengsten Fotomontagen genannt. Read more... |
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Portions of Gadgets, Word, FEB 2005
Vielleicht die technologische Weiterentwicklung der Tags. Der SMS-Projektor von Troika, einem Kollektiv von Erfinder-Nerds, verwandelt SMS-Botschaften zu massiven Projektionen, vorzugsweise auf öffentlichen Wänden, um Verwirrung zu stiften. Read more... |
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TV Predator, , APR 2004
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SMS Guerrilla projector, Pig, JAN 2004
Dopo la trasmissione degli SMS in tv tramite apposite trasmissioni televisive, ecco arrivare l'SMS Guerilla Projector, un apparecchio costruito a doc, che, grazie all'integrazione con un cellulare, può ricevere e inviare messaggi. Read more... |
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