Between 8^th September 2010 and 16^th January 2011 The Tate Britain will be hosting a unique exhibition, which celebrates the career of one of the World’s most influential photographers, Eadweard Muybridge.

Muybridge was born in Britain in 1830, and quickly made his name as a skilled image manipulator and as one of the most successful landscape photographers of all time. He is celebrated for his locomotion series of animals and humans, which signified the first projected motion images. He was the first photographer to inspire people to start using shutters in their photography after his legendary photograph of a horse in motion. Ian Warrell, the co-curator of the retrospective says “up until that point you’d just take the lens off, count however many seconds you needed to and then replace it. Muybridge was thinking of ways you could capture time, basically.”

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Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man is to open his second museum – a new branch of his existing Soumaya Museum in Mexico City.

Slim, who is reportedly worth $53.5 billion is the world’s foremost collector of sculptures from French sculptor Auguste Rodin with a colossal 66,000 pieces. The museum will contain a “treasure trove” of artwork by Rodin, which will form the largest collection of his work outside of France. In addition, it will house a collection of sculptures, paintings and art from around the world dating from 14^th century until present day.

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The Design Museum Holon in Israel is hosting a groundbreaking exhibition that explores the prominent role that machines are playing in the redefinition of haute couture.

In what has been described as an “extravagant representation of fashion”, world renowned designers have come together to create collections that demonstrate the changes in the fashion industry and our culture as a whole. Innovative Japanese designer, Issey Miyake is the creative director, while his fellow designers Dai Fujiwara, Shelley Fox and Marloes ten Bhömer each create their own contribution to display.

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Born in 1973 in Marseille, Stephanie Marin lives in Nice and since 2004, has been making a name for her unique ability to design indoor and outdoor furniture based on various elements of nature.

Stephanie creates a new collection of natural objects each year that relate to a specific concept and form made up of soft forms and simple lines that match each other and overlap to infinity.

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The quest to find the perfect bicycle that can both fold away and doesn’t make the cyclist look like he is riding a scooter with slightly larger wheels may have come to an end.  The iF Mode folding bicycle has a sleek, never been seen before design.

The wheels on the iF are a full 28-inches, yet they are able to squeeze up against each other to form a smart sleek package.  The designer, Mark Sanders, describes this as, ‘single-action automatic fold’, which basically means everything collapses in one swift movement, the frame, handlebars and the wheels.  No surprise then that he won the ‘2008 Eurobite Award’ and the ‘2009 Product Design Gold Award’ (along with the Apple iPhone and Macbook Air).

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