WEEKLY EMAIL: AUGUST 19, 2010
FEATURED THIS WEEK : LISA BIELAWA
Chance Encounter on the Tiber
One hundred movable red chairs and a musical performance on the Tiber River made for an interesting urban experiment. This collaborative project by Robert Hammond and Lisa Bielawa created unexpected results this past May in Rome.READ MORE
ALEXANDRA LANGE
When Shopping Was Sociable
Design Research closed its doors 31 years ago. Baby boomers remember the store like it was yesterday. D/R was where they bought their Marimekko dresses, the minute they realized a girdle was no longer required. D/R was where they touched the Kaj Franck china, buying one place-setting at a time for first apartments in Cambridge or San Francisco or New York.READ MORE
ROBERT GRUDIN
The Bakers Table
Those tables taught me something. I realized that by designing them I had turned impoverishment into enterprise. I had transcended my own inhibiting academic world and briefly explored the material presences of daily life. I had freed my eyes and hands to converse with varieties of shape and substance. I had engaged my little world and changed it. For these reasons, there is something special for me about the practice of design.READ MORE
ERIC BAKER
Today, 08.07.10
Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's TODAY.READ MORE
RECENT BOOKS RECEIVED
Type Rules!Ilene Strizver
Thoughts on Interaction DesignJon Kolko
Design ResearchJane Thompson & Alexandra Lange
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