Blog Profile / Design Observer
| URL : | http://www.designobserver.com | |
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| Filed Under: | Arts | |
| Posts on Regator: | 2372 | |
| Posts / Week: | 8.9 | |
| Archived Since: | April 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Debbie Millman: Jessica Walsh Audio Interview on Design Matters
On this episode of Design Matters, Debbie talks to Jessica Walsh about selling mss covered rocks to her elementary school classmates, her quick assent in the world of design, becoming a partner with Stefan Sagmeister and, of course, taking those naked pictures.
OBlog: Infographic: The Global Public Interest Design 100
Infographic: The Global Public Interest Design 100
Jim Bassett: “Everyone a Tourist”: On the Photography of Monuments
On Places, a slideshow of photographs of the Mayan ruins at Chichén Itzá, by Jim Bassett, contrasts the romantic tradition of travel photography with the realities of mass tourism.
Paul Polak: The SunWater Project: Advanced Solar Technology for Poor Farmers
Paul Polak on SunWater: a radically affordable solar water pump that will transform small plot agriculture and help bring the world's poorest families out of poverty.
OBlog: Flickr Collection of the Week: Tales From A Parallel Universe
The Flickr group capturing our imagination this week is Tales From A Parallel Universe.
OBlog: Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America
Michigan was an epicenter of modern design in postwar America, this summer the story will be told through a symposium at the Cranbrook Educational Community and an exhibition at the Cranbrook Art Museum.
Rick Poynor: The Conceptual Posters of Boris Bucan
Boris Bu?an’s little known early posters, produced in Zagreb, were reductive, sharply defined, cerebral and enigmatic.
Rob Walker: Emily Spivack's exhibition of unexpectedly interesting stories from eBay.
Emily Spivack's exhibition of unexpectedly interesting stories from eBay.
Alexandra Lange: Why are there no prices in museum galleries?
Is the museum store a distraction or an enticement?
Kit Hinrichs and Delphine Hirasuna: The Alphabet Card
Excerpt from The Alphabet Card, a new book by Kit Hinrichs and Delphine Hirasuna.
OBlog: Circus Poster Archive
Circusmuseum.nl, is "the ultimate image bank" of circus posters, photos and prints — with nearly eight thousand circus posters from 1880 to the present, from the Netherlands to America.
Belmont Freeman: Digital Deception: Architectural Photography After Photoshop
On Places, Belmont Freeman argues it's time to grapple with the artistic and professional consequences — and ethical dilemmas — of today's ever more powerful digital rendering technologies.
Mark Lamster: The Tower that Beer Built
The House that Beer Built
OBlog: Ideas that Matter
Sappi's Ideas that Matter 2013 Call for Applications
Debbie Millman: Mailchimp's Ben Chestnut and Aarron Walter Audio Interview on Design Matters
On this episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman talks to Mailchimp's CEO Ben Chestnut and User Expereince Lead Aarron Walter about how they arrived where they are, why and how email marketing is fun, Freddie the monkey and how to create creativity.
Center for an Urban Future: 8 Ways to Grow New York's Design Sector
New York City is home to more designers than any other U.S, city and a top location in the world for cutting-edge design. NYCxDESIGN — the city’s first citywide design festival, launching this week —builds on much of that activity to increase awareness about what design is and what it can do. Show More Summary
Rob Walker: Jill Stoll combines artistic ritual, creative reuse, and the postal service as connector.
Jill Stoll combines artistic ritual, creative reuse, and the postal service as connector.
Rick Poynor: A landmark illustrated edition of The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
Granta’s new edition of The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus is a landmark of experimental illustration.
Thomas Jorion & Josh Wallaert: Temple of the Vanities: Photographs
On Places, recent work by photographer Thomas Jorion, documenting defense towers, nuclear reactors, munitions depots and other 20th-century monuments to political and military hubris, now mostly abandoned.
OBlog: Recent Books Received: 05.09.13
Vernier: Fashion, Femininity and Form by Robin Muir and Becky Conekin; Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums by Mabel O. Wilson; Maynard L. Parker: Modern Photography and the American Dream, Jennifer A. Watts, Editor; Meme Wars by Kalle Lasn and Adbusters; Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury Americaby Amy F. Ogata