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David Adjaye: "People Are Overly Obsessed With The Visual In Architecture"
Some buildings are just four walls and a roof, but when they're the work of British-Ghanian architect David Adjaye, they're masterful compositions of light, materials, and scale that ultimately speak...
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The Best New Health Care Design Borrows An Old Healing Technique: Plants
This week, the American Institute of Architects announced seven new, stand-out structures designed to help heal patients, whether the focus is cancer treatment, reproductive health, or pediatrics. One...
View ArticleWatch: The Four Seasons Auction Is Happening Now, And It's A Feeding Frenzy
The auction of the Four Seasons restaurant, the most controversial sale of a modernist icon in recent memory, began at 10 a.m. today. And it is madness.Results so far include $96,000 for a sign, a...
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Forget Smog Alerts: These Shirts Visualize The Pollution Around You
It's a great atmospheric Catch 22 that polluted air yields the most beautiful sunsets. The same paradox holds true for Aerochromics: a new line of shirts whose patterns are awoken by carbon monoxide,...
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A House Built For Aging In Place
When Judi and David Cornis, who is a wheelchair user, enlisted the Seattle-based prefab company FabCab to build their residence in Port Townsend, Washington, they asked for a space that would permit...
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The Delightfully Obsessive Collections Of Modern Artists
People collect things for myriad reasons, whether it's to study the different iterations of a single object, connect with personal history, make an investment, or have "I own it all" bragging...
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Virgin America's New App Puts A Travel Agent In Your Pocket
Travel agents were among the first casualties of the Internet age, rendered obsolete by websites that let travelers select and book their own flights. But considering how time-consuming and complex it...
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Turn Your MacBook Into A Stone-Cold Stunner With These Marble Decals
Marble has been prized for centuries for its innate beauty and has captivated creatives for just as long. At the hands of Greek sculptors it can look as supple as flesh, artists can make it as fluid as...
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Moleskine Has Opened A Cafe. Doodlers Welcome
Tucked inside every Moleskine notebook is a slip of paper that tells the brand's history. Picasso, Hemingway, and Matisse famously sketched, wrote, and mused in generic black notebooks made by a small...
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Why Midcentury-Modern Architecture Endures
A new book on the masterful architect William Krisel documents the golden age of midcentury-modern design.The midcentury-modern houses of Palm Springs, California, are unmistakable. With their strong...
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Pantone's Addictive New App Turns The World Into A Prismatic Palette
Pantone Studio launches this week in the App Store and is targeted to digital designers and the color-obsessed.From its humble roots as a printing company in suburban New Jersey to becoming the...
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Prefab Housing Isn't A Subculture Anymore, It's A Necessity
In the fifth book of her "Prefabulous" series, author Sheri Koones hits upon "the ideal method" for building homes.Housing trends come and go, but Prefabulous Small Houses, the latest book from prefab...
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N.Y.C.'s Next Great Cultural Destination: A Wild Shape-Shifting Building
The Shed takes "multipurpose room" to the next level.Like many of the experimental architects in the 1960s, Cedric Price had ideas so radical that they were destined to the confines of sketchbook pages...
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Why You Should Actually Watch The Opening Ceremony This Year
One of Brazil's most celebrated filmmakers orchestrated the opening to Rio's Olympic games.Over the years, the Olympic opening ceremonies have devolved into obscene pageantry, but tonight's might be...
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A $35 Million Design Empire Built On The Humble Place Mat
Sandy Chilewich started out dyeing fabric in a washing machine in the '70s. Today, her company makes 40,000 place mats a week.The place mat sits low on the totem pole of design objects, but for Sandy...
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Reviving A Failed Design From The 1950s With Technology From Today
It took nearly 60 years for technology to catch up with Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni's vision for the Taccia lamp.Many ahead-of-their-time designers had to wait for technological breakthroughs...
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Turn Your House Into A 3D Painting With These Awesome Room Dividers
Kandinsky would approve.Madrid-based designer Ana Arana is well versed in the game of hide-and-seek. Case in point? Her unassuming kitchen in a box that holds an arsenal of appliances and cooking...
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Google Has A Solution For The UX Design Education Gap: Google
A new degree program with SCAD aims to "fill the gaps" in user experience design education.As a profession, "designer" is constantly evolving. Fifty years ago, chances are you'd either be a graphic...
View ArticleDesigners Sandbag Trump
This group of designers wants to build Trump's wall. Just not where he wants it.In this haywire election season, one of the most absurd "plans" Donald Trump has managed to squeeze in between his...
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The Ingenious Way Push Pin Advertised Its Design Services In The Rotary-Phone...
Essential phone numbers and display type by Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast, all in one retro poster.Push Pin—the graphic design studio founded in 1954 by Milton Glaser, Seymour Chwast, and Edward...
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