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Friday Finds 10.30.2009
Amanda Dameron
10/30/2009 1 comment
A map is most often understood as a directional devise to help you navigate from Point A to Point B. Author Katherine Harmon has spent years collecting maps, but instead of heading to gas stations…
The Map as Art
Miyoko Ohtake
10/30/2009 Leave a comment
This week, we’re featuring two events and one exhibition closing happening (on three continents, no less) this weekend in the world of architecture and design.
Events this Weekend: 10.29-11.1
Miyoko Ohtake
10/29/2009 Leave a comment
While wood floors are generally more elegant than carpeting, rugs and textiles can bring warmth and texture to otherwise hard and hollow spaces. Estonian designer Monika Järg has a novel…
Monika Jรคrg's Wooden Carpets
Sarah Rich
10/29/2009 2 comments
A new restaurant named Anju recently opened in Portland, Oregon. With a darkly sleek interior, industrial finishes, and original art on the walls and ceiling, it comes as a pleasant surprise that…
Anju: Portland, Oregon
Amara Holstein
10/28/2009 1 comment
Sustainable design isn’t merely a catchphrase for Mexico City–based industrial designer Emiliano Godoy. The density and environmental tensions of the megalopolis he calls home have both…
Emiliano Godoy
Dwell Staff
10/28/2009 Leave a comment
Strolling down Brattle Street in Harvard Square, one can't help but notice the new vibrant swathes of color and fabric trumpeting from the windows of the Design Research Building.
Marimekko in Harvard Square
Tiffany Chu
10/27/2009 1 comment
I've been following designer Jonas Damon for a little while now, and like most design-watchers, I rather liked his charming wooden Torch Flashlight, and the Twice Twice Clock he created recently…
Moby Tape Dispenser
Aaron Britt
10/27/2009 Leave a comment
If you have an interest in humanitarian design and product development, you'll want to tune in this Thursday, October 29, to a live online seminar "Designing Products for Emerging…
Webcast: Design for Emerging Markets
Sarah Rich
10/27/2009 Leave a comment
I was very sad to learn that the design world lost a giant in the field yesterday when landscape architect Lawrence Halprin passed away at age 93. He worked all over the country, but it could be…
In Memoriam: Lawrence Halprin
Aaron Britt
10/26/2009 Leave a comment
Starting this week, New York’s Museum of Arts and Design will cede control of its second-floor MADProjects Gallery to Nendo, a Tokyo-based studio known for its clever, subversive updates to…
Nendo Takes Over MADProjects Gallery
William Lamb
10/26/2009 Leave a comment
For the next in our unconventional-campus-spaces series, I could not neglect one of Boston's most controversial works, Frank Gehry's Stata Center. Home to MIT's computer scientists and electrical…
"I Live in a Frank Gehry"
Tiffany Chu
10/26/2009 3 comments
One element of my tour of Melbourne that really surprised me was how much I liked the new Melbourne Convention Center by Hamish Lyon of NH Architecture and Nik Karalis of Woods Bagot.
Melbourne Convention Center
Aaron Britt
10/23/2009 Leave a comment
Costume ideas, bicycle voyeurism, limited-edition artwork on view this weekend in Los Angeles...please don't say the Dwell staff never gave you anything. Check out the links below to see where…
Friday Finds 10.23.09
Amanda Dameron
10/23/2009 Leave a comment
After a month of online voting, the winner of the 2009 People’s Design Award was announced last night at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s fourth annual National Design Awards…
2009 People's Design Award Winner
Miyoko Ohtake
10/23/2009 Leave a comment
This weekend’s art, architecture, and design events features a typography exhibition opening in Los Angeles, the end of both National Design Week in New York City and Dutch Design Week in…
Events This Weekend: 10.22-10.25
Miyoko Ohtake
10/22/2009 2 comments
The Make It Right Foundation has gotten loads of press over the last few years, thanks in large part to its ultra-celebrity founder, as well as the numerous famous architects who've invested their…
Morphosis FLOAT House for NOLA
Sarah Rich
10/22/2009 4 comments
Last week I traveled back East to my hometown of Buffalo, New York. Though we may not be able to consistently win a football game, we Buffalonians do know good architecture when we see it. The…
Buffalo, New York
Miyoko Ohtake
10/21/2009 9 comments
On the surface, craft culture may seem as soft and fuzzy as a skein of hand-dyed yarn, but as I learned at the American Craft Council's annual meeting and conference last week, there are as many…
Craft Culture Face-Off
Sarah Rich
10/21/2009 1 comment
I had two legs to my trip as I flew back to San Francisco from Melbourne, Australia. And much as a nice little layover in Hawaii would have been, I actually changed planes in Sydney. As I was holed…
Qantas First Lounge: Sydney
Aaron Britt
10/20/2009 Leave a comment
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