Via Design Observer - a great article about Aline and Eero Saarinen’s partnership, told through letters recently digitized by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian. Their story has all the makings of a great movie - fabulous characters, art and scandal. I could spend days reading through their archive if I didn’t have [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...On Sunday, I got back from 5 bliss-filled days in Memphis, Tennessee, where I was volunteering at and participating in the AIGA National Design Conference, Make|Think. AIGA, the professional association for design, holds a National Design Conference every two years. I was in Denver for the 2007 conference and in 2005 I was in [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Today on Design Observer, Bradford McKee profiles a floating house designed by Morphosis in Los Angeles. Designed to rise with flood waters rather than get buried under them, the house is made of pre-fabricated parts and will only cost around $150,000. It’s appropriately located in New Orlean’s Lower Ninth Ward and is equipped to go [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Keeping with the movie theme again today, I ran across a link to this video from College Humor on Design Observer and it made me smile. I never realized how similar in appearance some of these movie titles had become. Definitely an interesting contrast to Wes Anderson’s (over)use of Futura. Most of the films in the [...]
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