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'Tis the season for Paris Photo, where 102 galleries and publishers from 23 countries are taking part in the world's leading photography fair. This year's fair, which runs through Sunday at the Carrousel du Louvre, spotlights Arab and [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:01pm EST
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:02am EST
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Last week marked the opening of starchitect Zaha Hadid's Maxxi, a museum housing contemporary art, in Rome. The NY Times resident critic, Nicolai Ouroussoff decided to open his recent (and glowing) review of the new building, "What would Pope Urban VIII have made of Maxxi....? [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:00am EST
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Sad news to start off the day with. Late yesterday, it was reported that Jeanne-Claude, the French artist who was married to and collaborated with Christo on a wide-variety of massive projects that largely involved huge installations, like "The Umbrellas" in Japan and "The Gates" in [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:00am EST
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 If we weren't saving up all of our spending money (in a Harry Allen-designed piggy bank, naturally) for Art Basel Miami, we would be snapping up one of those freshly discounted airfares to London. Once deposited across the pond, we'd head straight for the Ed [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:58pm EST
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High-flying advertising executive turned author James Othmer's new book, Adland: Searching for Life on a Branded Planet (Doubleday), offers an inside look at the past, present, and future of the ad industry. His tales of the wild and morally questionable ride from the days of Mad Men to branded [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:00pm EST
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 A year and a half after he stepped up to replace longtime Vogue design director Charles Churchward, Danko Steiner has decided to leave the magazine. He is concluding his four-year tenure at Vogue to pursue photography, according to a report from WWD. Editor-in-chief Anna [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:34pm EST
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We've seen celebrities "design" piles upon piles of clothing, shoes, and anything else they can get their grubby little celebrity hands on. But now singer/songwriter Taylor Swift can lay claim to being the first to get into the lucrative greeting card market (those cards with people [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:00am EST
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We pick you up and then drop you back down. Sorry, but that's just how we roll around here. As positive as that last post was about the Billings Index rise, that doesn't necessarily mean much to a project that's getting shut down. So it is for [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:01am EST
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Have we survived? Have we really put these dark days behind us and come out alive? So it might seem when you hear the news that the AIA's Architecture Billing Index is finally back to the levels it was at in August of 2008, right before [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:04am EST
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If you like interesting or attractive scenery, but particularly if you enjoy looking at it through windows, 2009 is going to be a red letter year for you, given that there are two new books available that provide just that. First up is Matteo Pericoli's The [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:01am EST
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 Here's your chance to walk a mile in Christoph Niemann's shoes—or those of John Maeda, James Victore, Ellen Lupton, Jessica Helfand, or Louise Fili. Each of these design world luminaries has customized a pair of TOMS shoes that are now up for auction on eBay [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:53pm EST
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 It's been quite the year for iconic children's books. Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar recently munched its way to age 40, and now The Polar Express is celebrating 25 years of enchanting readers with its mildly creepy brand of Christmas [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:19pm EST
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Banksy might be the biggest of the big in the street art/vandalism game, but our new favorite is John Scott, reportedly the oldest tagger ever apprehended (in California at least). For more than half a year, the 73 year old had been slapping stickers everywhere in [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:00am EST
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Poor Thomas Kinkade. All he wanted to do was paint light. Recently there were those mean people he had to pay $2.1 million to because they said he and his company scammed them. Now there are a bunch of San Franciscan artists who are poking [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:00am EST
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The Burj Dubai might not be ready to open until next year, but that doesn't mean that there's no one inside already. Or up top. And armed with a video camera. The clip below has been steadily making the rounds this week, showing the vantage point from the very [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:01am EST
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 Our latest UnBeige contest is now entering its final days. The prizes: fame and free iTunes downloads of the documentary we've been talking about since it was in pre-production: Gary Hustwit's Objectified (find it on iTunes here). Entering is as easy as finishing this sentence:
The [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:39am EST
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.jpg) At a gala held last night at New York's Skylight Studios, designer Sophie Théallet was named the winner of the sixth annual Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)/Vogue Fashion Fund Prize, besting nine other finalists to take home $200,000 and a steady stream [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:08pm EST
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Let's stay in the UK for a moment longer as we add another entry into our collection of truly wonderful press releases. This one can't top our favorite of all time, but it's certainly staked it's claim near the top. The title goes "UK Van [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:00am EST
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In another museum-related visit back to days gone by, remember the rumor that London's Design Museum was thinking about making a move to a new building? Well while you've been over here Americaning it up, there's been movement and the museum has made it official, that [...]
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:59am EST
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Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:00am EST
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 Ever dreamed of putting your spin on SPIN? Here's your chance. The music magazine, which turns 25 next year, is looking to add a web designer to its growing online team. The responsibilities of the position include everything from creating high-fidelity PSDs and split testing to [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:29pm EST
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Not to brag, but we have it all figured out now. Remember how you, like us, thought it was curious when you learned that the epicenter of stadium design is Kansas [or Missouri, see below]? You have Populous there, which is clearly the biggest player [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:00am EST
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:56am EST
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A couple of web critiques to start your day off both a bit more reasoned and maybe more cranky. First up, by way of a tip, comes Perry Garvin's review of the Whitney Museum's new site redesign. We'd seen it when it launched a little while [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:00am EST
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 As predicted, the rebranding of the 89-year-old Art Directors Club has been greeted with controversy, at least here on UnBeige, where one astute commenter compared the new logo, designed by Trollbäck + Company, to that of David Barton Gym (an identity created by Edward [...]
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Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:17am EST
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.jpg) "I'm not afraid of technology. Being a photographer, I always have to deal with technology, but I think technology makes people lazy and slow. Incredibly slow. Remember when we used to make a layout, in three days? These days they all get lost in technology. [...]
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Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:49am EST
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 Here's one for your holiday wish list: Alex Steinweiss: Creator of the Modern Album Cover. Out today from Taschen, this lushly illustrated coffee table book celebrates the career of Steinweiss, now 92, who revolutionized the way music was packaged and marketed. As Columbia Records' first [...]
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Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:34am EST
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A little bird has told us that Debbie Millman (who just got this nice plug in New York for her latest book) is working together with director Hillman Cutis in creating a TV pilot for her long-running radio/podcast series, "Design Matters." We've learned that Stefan Sagmeister and [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:01pm EST
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While we may have been running far too many stories these past couple of weeks about the thrilling world of license plate design, let's remember that we already officially claimed that 2009 is "The Year of Dinosaur Sales." And despite our faith getting wobbly back [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:02am EST
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As an occasionally working photographer and filmmaker, this writer has gotten questioned by the authorities why he's taking photos, been asked to leave, and has seen a hand or two come into the viewfinder. Sadly, confrontation is like kryptonite, so backing down and running away is par for the course [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:01am EST
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The heck with it. We're officially back on the license plate wagon again. After receiving some truly well-thought, highly-informative comments in yesterday's post about New York's new plate designs (we didn't know some of those four letter word combinations even existed!), and with other plate [...]
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Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:50am EST
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We're sorry ladies. It's not the masterful ab'ed Yves Behar stripping down (as was hinted at in our comments section), but there is undressing of fit people of both genders in this recently released spot for Behar's green underwear, PACT. "The Office of Eden," as it's called, [...]
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:00am EST
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New York apparently doesn't like it when you call another state "the greatest in the Union" as we recently had about Montana after they'd
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Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:00am EST
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 Gallery hopping in Manhattan is a treat on most any Saturday, but The New Yorker's annual Passport to the Arts event adds a scavenger hunt twist, challenging participants to fill the creamy cardstock of their specially issued booklets with stamped versions of artworks (like the one [...]
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:59pm EST
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 British fashion designer Luella Bartley, who we've long admired for her knack at combining girly flourishes with surfer cool and preppy polish, has closed her ten-year-old fashion label, Luella. The London-based designer was forced out of business when Club 21, the label's key [...]
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:25pm EST
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As writer Judith H. Dobrzynski puts it "If you live in Britain, better hide that Picasso." She's referring to a recent study released by the Art Loss Register that ranks countries by the total amount of reported art thefts. We would have said that [...]
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:04am EST
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Hot off the heals of designing this summer's well-received Serpentine Pavilion, the firm SANAA has continued their efforts to conquer Europe, checking off individual nations as they go. One of the two founders of the company, Kazuyo Sejima, has been named as next year's director [...]
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:03am EST
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Following up on our post from last week about LA Times reporter Dan Neil's tearing apart ad man Alex Bogusky's new book Baked In, the affronted author has decided to reply to the bad review with a bad review of his own, though not with [...]
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Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:00am EST
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A scant ten days remain to enter our latest UnBeige contest. The prizes: fame and free iTunes downloads of the documentary we've been talking about since it was in pre-production: Gary Hustwit's Objectified (find it on iTunes here). Entering is as easy as finishing this [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:14pm EST
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.jpg) Egyptian archeologist Zahi Hawass, the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, is part cultural guardian, part Indiana Jones. No television program remotely concerned with the ancient world can resist him. In a fact piece in the November 16 issue of The New Yorker, Ian [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:23pm EST
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Following a couple of big rough patches after a decade of uncomfortably explosive growth, this has been the year for Starbucks' reinvention. Thus far, we've seen Arthur Rubinfeld come back, a complete LEED-happy redesign in the works for all their stores, and most recently, [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:02am EST
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Adrian Smith's Burj Dubai tower might be the tallest building in the world, but what use is the title if no one can even enter it? A while back, we'd heard that the Burj was set to open in September. Then that was moved back to [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:54am EST
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Adrian Smith's Burj Dubai tower might be the tallest building in the world, but what use is the title if no one can even enter it? A while back, we'd heard that the Burj was set to open in September. Then that was moved back to [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:54am EST
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With the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in DC finally moving forward, that left just one endless, mired in controversy project to wait on. Fortunately, it looks like these have been good days for memorials, as ground was finally broken this weekend on the Flight [...]
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Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:01am EST
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 Anemic ad sales and the game-changing dynamics of this tangled Interweb continue to force media companies to shed titles (except in China, where they can't launch them fast enough). The latest casualty is modern design-focused Metropolitan Home, the 26-year-old publication edited by Donna [...]
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Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:10pm EST
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When it comes to daunting projects fraught with politics and strong opinions, rebranding the 89-year-old Art Directors Club (ADC) is right up there with selecting an official canine mascot for the American Kennel Club. But the ADC has done it—and kept the [...]
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Posted: November 09, 2009, 1:18pm EST
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While we went to a really great lecture last week, unfortunately everyone was entirely civil and friendly, which was a shame, as it seems like we're never luck enough to be at one where the guest speaker goes ballistic. Such was the case late last week [...]
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Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:00am EST
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Starchitect, tough talker and suspected-fixer of Super Bowl XLII, Peter Eisenman, has been named the first Charles Gwathmey Professor of Architecture at Yale. The title was bestowed upon him thanks to a donation by fashion icon Ralph Lauren (estimated to have cost around $3 [...]
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Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:00am EST
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Starting the week off, the biggest design-y conversations seem to be coming from the airline industry and so that is where we too must head. First comes the news that famous fashion designer and "Project Runway" and "Design Star" familiar, Cynthia Rowley, has been hired by [...]
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Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:00am EST
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Who knew that 2009 was going to be the year that modern art got high-profile political again? Just a few months back, we had Glenn Beck telling us about the evil communist indoctrination elements found within the exterior of Rockefeller Plaza and now we have [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:00am EST
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Back in early October, we told you about the death of Gourmet, the smartly designed magazine that always got our mouths a-watering. It's been a strange new world without it and although we have other magazines to turn to when we're feeling those foodie urges, we [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:01am EST
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Let's start this last day of the work week a little mean, shall we? Currently making the rounds in the ad agency world is Dan Neil's scathing review of modern ad icon Alex Bogusky's latest book (co-written with John Winsor), Baked In: Creating Products and [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:01am EST
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 The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), which is currently exhibiting the ICP's Richard Avedon restrospective as well as a survey of photos from its own collection, is housed in a glorious 1927 Beaux-Arts building that recently underwent a seven-year renovation and reinstallation. Architecture buff Jim [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:47pm EST
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 "He was not a great draftsman. In terms of what it means to draw beautifully, in terms of control, I don't think he was very notable....He had an enormous sense of style, and he could bring that burnished style to a product in way that enhanced its [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:37pm EST
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(Photos: Journal of Popular Noise)
 The Journal of Popular Noise, the audio magazine founded and edited by graphic designer Byron Kalet, is a treat for the senses, from its expertly curated musical selections (distributed as a twice-yearly trio of seven-inch vinyl records) to [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:54pm EST
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As if swine flu weren't bad enough, now the unholy enemy of all who stand upright has landed on our shores. Of course, we are talking about tripping. But this time it has nothing to do with Bilbao, bridges, or Santiago Calatrava. Instead, it's the [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:00am EST
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As if swine flu weren't bad enough, now the unholy enemy of all who stand upright has landed on our shores. Of course, we are talking about tripping. But this time it has nothing to do with Bilbao, bridges, or Santiago Calatrava. Instead, it's the [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:00am EST
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A little heads up about tonight's Project Runway, particularly for those of you in Los Angeles. The episode airing tonight of the popular designing/sewing reality show was not only shot at the Getty Center, but apparently the whole competition centers around designing outfits "inspired by the [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:00am EST
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While architects may be facing only a 50% chance at finding a regular paying gig these days, fortunately in New York there are a couple of charitable arms out there trying to help out. The L Magazine profiles the work of The Bronx Museum of [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:45am EST
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The old saying goes that there are two constants in life, death and taxes. But were we to revise the list, we would say "death, taxes, and the legal battle between George Lucas and Andrew Ainsworth." You might recall our last post about that new addition toward [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:06am EST
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From left to right: Dzine beholds his custom lowrider, "The Tipping Point," while Kenny Scharf discusses "5 For 99 Cents," the mixed media painting he created for the Stages exhibition, on view at Deitch Projects in New York through November 21. (Photos: UnBeige)
We've followed [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:55pm EST
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 As if you needed another good reason to purchase the fine formulations of Kiehl's Since 1851, the L'Oreal-owned apothecary brand has launched a limited-edition holiday collection of its famed Creme de Corps that features label artwork by KAWS, the artist also known as Brian [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:25pm EST
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It's hopefully an established fact by now that when you want a Mies van der Rohe fix, you head straight to all around good guy, Edward Lifson. We've certainly posted our fair share of links to his writing about the brilliant architect, and have always [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:00am EST
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The most popular vandal in all the world, Banksy, keeps on getting a taste of his own medicine. Just this year, his work has been accidentally painted over and purposefully defaced during his big show in Bristol. But as we've also seen over the past [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:44am EST
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While President Obama was busy rocking it with his new Google Glasses on, we assume one of the things he got up to while looking so nerd-cool was selecting the members of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, the list of whomhas [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:00am EST
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Halloween has passed, which our local CVS emporium interprets as a signal to bust out the Santa hats and dreidel cookies, frosted in a most fetching shade of blue. We're getting into the holiday spirit with a contest. The prizes: fame and free iTunes downloads of the [...]
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Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:54pm EST
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 It's Election Day, and political types are everywhere you look, including magazine covers. The November 9 issue of New York features Marco Grob's Rorschach blot of a photo of Nancy Pelosi: wide-eyed, intense, and grinning in gumball-sized pearl earrings. An all-caps headline across her forehead brands [...]
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Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:39pm EST
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Leaving school but staying in the same place, we turn to this great story in New York about David Burney, an architect many people might not know, but whose work is helping transform New York one small project at a time. Burney is the commissioner of [...]
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Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:02am EST
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Staying in school for a big longer, and for a far more upbeat post, we turn to one of Archinect's terrific School Blog Project contributors, Mark Faulkner, who is studying at Cooper Union and reporting on his experiences as a student. His most recent post talks [...]
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Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:54am EST
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The signs have really been there from the beginning, so this should really come as no surprise. Despite an influx of out of work students returning to school to receive various degrees in architecture, there have been questions over whether this is such a good idea, [...]
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Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:00am EST
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One of the best outlets for an American photographer to enter the international market used to be through the German publication GEO, known for their publication of lengthy photo essays and giving work to up and coming and experienced shooters. Unfortunately, Photo District News reports that [...]
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Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:00am EST
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 Whether you covet an Odyssey putter or think it has something to do with ancient Greece, you could be the Tiger Woods Foundation's ace in the hole. The Irvine, California-based nonprofit organization is searching for a graphic design coordinator to help tee up its efforts [...]
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Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:58pm EST
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(Photo: Prix Pictet)
It's been quite a year for London-based photographer Nadav Kander. In January, he made a splash with the special inauguration issue of The New York Times Magazine, which devoted its entire feature well to his 52 full-page color portraits of "Obama's People." The [...]
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Posted: November 02, 2009, 2:08pm EST
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(Logo: Young Guns 6 winner Craig Ward of Words Are Pictures)
The jury has spoken, and the Art Directors Club has announced its newest group of Young Guns: 50 creative sharp-shooters from around the globe that are doing great things [...]
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Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:49pm EST
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Thanks to a tip from Art Info, we can now start living vicariously through Nancy Spector. The Guggenheim Museum's Chief Curator for the past two decades, Spector has crafted loads of exhibitions (of course), worked with nearly every big name in the industry, from Matthew [...]
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Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:00am EST
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Beautiful as our architecture is here in Chicago, a lot of it wasn't built with the green, LEED-happy practices we use today. Fortunately, there's been movement toward revising some of those negatives, as Julie Wernau reports in her piece about architect Sara Beardsley's efforts to turn [...]
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Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:00am EST
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You're familiar with the recently buzzed about blog, Letters of Note, right? It's a fun site, run by Shaun Usher, who created it as "an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos." It features things like famous people writing to other [...]
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Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:00am EST
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(Photos: Antoine Bootz)
 As we put the finishing touches on our Charles and Ray Eames Halloween costumes, we wanted to leave you with this Friday Photo from the Metropolitan Home Showtime House of earlier this fall. A group of designers that [...]
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Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:10pm EDT
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"The women who intrigued me had the most beautiful necks and the most reponsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing."
-Photographer Lillian Bassman, whose work is on view through November 28 in an [...]
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Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:19pm EDT
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To end this writer's day on a fun/funny note, we ran across this press release from the North Shore Animal League America, who are gearing up for an upcoming benefit in New York next Thursday the 5th to raise money for their pet rescue/adoption/awareness efforts. [...]
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Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
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Despite the hopefully-misguided beliefs of apparently a lot of people in China that starchitect Rem Koolhaas wants nothing more than to mock them with his buildings' designs, there's some positive news coming from the neighbor to his "controversial" CCTV Tower, the badly charred Mandarin Oriental [...]
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Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:00am EDT
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 The elaborately costumed educational boosters at mediabistro.com are handing out more than fun-size Snickers this Halloween. They've asked us to pass along a special treat: 30% off multi-week courses when you sign up today, October 30. The deal comes just in time to save on mb's four-week [...]
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Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:06am EDT
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What do the brands London Fog and Mossimo have to do with fashion mogul Marc Ecko? After this week, they've become one in the same. Or rather, all under one big umbrella, as the designer, known for his love of spending lavishly, has been forced to [...]
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Posted: October 30, 2009, 8:03am EDT
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As a lame adult now too old to go out to raucous parties, but young enough not to have kids yet, this writer's connection to Halloween has sadly become distanced. As such, he hasn't really been on the lookout for much spooky, seasonally-appropriate pieces to share with [...]
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Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:00am EDT
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(Photos: Laura Yeffeth)
As Richard Wilde, chairman of the BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department at New York's School of Visual Arts, celebrates his fortieth year at the College, SVA is recognizing him with a dazzling exhibition of iconic works by more than [...]
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Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:37pm EDT
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 Is conserving printer ink and increasing environmental awareness as easy as switching fonts? So say the Dutch creators of Ecofont, a "green" typeface. The font—a modified version of Vera Sans—consists of characters that are full of tiny holes and so requires an estimated 20% less [...]
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Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:33pm EDT
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 In a kind of cultural patrimony twist on "You break it, you own it," the Metropolitan Museum of Art today returned to Egypt an ancient Egyptian granite relief fragment that was identified by museum staff as part of a large shrine. The fragment, which has never been [...]
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Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:30pm EDT
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In a kind of cultural patrimony twist on "You break it, you own it," the Metropolitan Museum of Art today returned to Egypt an ancient Egyptian granite relief fragment that was identified by museum staff as part of a large shrine. The fragment, which has never been [...]
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Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:30pm EDT
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A couple of weeks back, we told you all about UnBeige 3.0's Alissa Walker's great City Walks Architecture. And while we yammered on about that release, we briefly mentioned UnBeige 2.0's Eva Hagberg's upcoming book through Monacelli, Dark Nostalgia, but hadn't been able to [...]
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Posted: October 29, 2009, 12:02pm EDT
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While the MoMA's new tower might now be going up, everything else seems to be falling apart. Daniel Libeskind's Denver Art Museum is finally getting fixed for leaks and Populous' less than a year old Yankee Stadium is starting to crack (as was its [...]
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Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:05am EDT
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The lesson here, we believe, is as such: "when in doubt, add some shiny." After all if it works for Jean Nouvel, it might work for you, too. After a month of wrangling, New York's City Council has announced that they have approved the starchitect's plans [...]
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Posted: October 29, 2009, 8:00am EDT
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(Photos, left to right: Patrick McMullan Company and UnBeige)
David Stark has long been the go-to event designer for the Cooper-Hewitt's annual National Design Awards gala. In recent years, he and his team have transformed everyday objects—from cushions to cocktail napkins—into colorful tableaux that popped [...]
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Posted: October 28, 2009, 4:27pm EDT
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 We're skeptical when clothing and accessories that aren't designed for use in say, combat, come tucked inside large padded cases with glossy pamphlets and instructional CD-ROMs, but buying a pair of Oakley's newest sunglasses will get you all that and [...]
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Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:09pm EDT
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 The World Monuments Fund has announced its 2010 World Monuments Watch, a biennial list of at-risk cultural heritage sites. The new list consists of 93 sites from 47 countries. Along with the famous and ancient—Machu Picchu (pictured), Pakistani petroglyphs, Bhutan's fragile Phajoding monastery—the list highlights the [...]
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Posted: October 28, 2009, 1:20pm EDT
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We've already done one post about silly conservative crackpottery this week and we know it's fairly passe anymore to point out the focused agenda of Fox News, but sometimes we just can't resist. What forces our hands to type these very words is this story on [...]
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Posted: October 28, 2009, 12:02pm EDT
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At the end of August, we checked in with the ever-stalled Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial project, only to find that it had reached yet another roadblock. Said roadblock that time actually dealt with the lack of roadblocks, with the National Park Service demanding that some [...]
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Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:01am EDT
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Just this past weekend, a friend was talking about Roger Hiorns' Turner Prize-shortlisted piece "Seizure." If you aren't familiar with it, the quick synopsis is that Hiorns dumped gallons and gallons of copper sulphate into a sealed, abandoned apartment, waited a few days, sucked all the [...]
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Posted: October 28, 2009, 8:00am EDT
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Some big architecture business news this week. It's been announced that the Kansas City-based firm Ellerbe Becket, has been acquired by the massive California company AECOM Technology Corp. Becket, you might recall, has come to more prominence recently for seemingly being Populous' only rival in the [...]
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Posted: October 28, 2009, 6:00am EDT
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(Photos: Sara Scamarcia)
 Remember the quintet of artist- and architect-designed covers of T: The New York Times Style Magazine in celebration of its fifth anniversary? Architect and exhibition designer Ico Migliore transformed the five special T logos—created by Frank Gehry, Jenny Holzer, [...]
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Posted: October 27, 2009, 7:46pm EDT
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