Hasta La Ideas

As we inch ever closer to 2010, what are we most looking forward to hearing more about in the coming year? From this writer, it’s the news (found by way of Archinect) that Frank Gehry has teamed up with both director David Lynch and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro in trying to get the city of Lodz, Poland to come up with the financing to build a cultural center in the heart of the city, designed by Gehry. This week, both Lynch and Storaro made pleas to the city council, practically on their knees, begging them to build the structure, saying what an incredible opportunity it will be for the city. According to the site Polish Architecture, the center would feature not only four movie theaters, but would also have gigantic projections throughout its entire interior, as well as a general focus on cinema, hence the two filmmakers’ connection to the project. We’ll be interested to see how it all pans out. Here’s a rough translation, via Google Translate, of Lynch’s appeal to the city:

Dear Councilors, please do not miss this chance to develop their own city. Please, do everything in your power to your children and grandchildren are proud to live in one of the most interesting cities in Europe. Do not neglect the huge potential that lies dormant in these projects. There is no doubt that these projects will attract crowds of visitors – both artists, entrepreneurs and tourists from Europe and around the world.

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2009 has been too good to us here at Core77. While continuing to bring you exciting blog posts, event galleries, book reviews, feature articles by some of the brightest minds in the field, we also introduced our new Core-toons series by fueledbycoffee and lunchbreath; brought you a bigger and better Coroflot Salary Survey; hosted our first live 1 Hour Design Challenge at the Better World by Design conference at RISD; broadcast live from the Via Tortona in Milan; added a custom Core77 bike to our store; and assembled Hack2Work, an essential list of tips for the design professional. In the meantime, Coroflot passed the 150,000 portfolio mark while we produced four editions of our new Creative Employment Confab in Austin, New York City, Portland, and San Francisco. Finally, in addition to existing partners The Art Directors Club, BusinessWeek, Computerlove, Design Observer, HOW, I.D. Magazine, and Print, we’re very proud to announce the addition of three new ones: The Die Line, Ad Forum and Creative Pro.

In light of all this, we’d like to take a moment and extend great thanks to our wonderful contributors, partners, board moderators, supporters, friends, family, and especially you, our valuable readers. We can’t do enough to thank you all, but for a start, we’ve assembled some of our favorite moments of 2009 for you to reflect on below.

Here’s to a bright 2010.

FTW,
Core77

Core77’s favorites from 2009:

The 4 Fields of Industrial Design: (No, not furniture, trans, consumer electronics, & toys), by Bruce M. Tharp and Stephanie M. Tharp

Ten seriously bizarre knock-off “brand names.”

Advice for Designers: F*ck It!

 A look at wood, part 1: Saw mill madness

Bruce Nussbaum: INNOVATION IS DEAD.

Flotspotting: Loren Kulesus grinds axes and skateboards

Joshua Allen Harris: More more more!

It’s Official: Industrial Designer is the 9th best job in America

Core77 Photo Gallery: North American Int’l Auto Show 2009

LightLane concept creates bike lanes where there were none

Design Versus Innovation: The Cranbrook / IIT Debate

Obama action figure

US National Design Policy Summit Report available

Cologne Design Festival 2009: Video Drive-By: Stephan Landschuetz: Sporthocker

What would Jesus read by?

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As you may have deduced, we at UnBeige are rather obsessed by documentary films, and 2009 delivered in a big way: Helvetica director Gary Hustwit continued his beautifully shot journey into the world of design with Objectified, Megumi Sasaki created a tender portrait of Herb & Dorothy, R.J. Cutler helped the talented Grace Coddington grow her fan base by millions with his fascinating The September Issue, and Matt Tyrnauer revealed his brilliance as both a filmmaker and a marketing man with Valentino: The Last Emperor, which deserved every one of the 286 sumptuous fêtes thrown in its honor. Merle Becker‘s American Artifact, as you may recall, chronicles the rise of American rock poster art. And while you go and circle March 27 on your new 2010 calendar as the date of the DVD release, we wanted to share with you an artifactual tale about the making of the film. In this helpful story about how not to interview Frank Kozik, Becker described to us her fateful meeting with the rock poster legend:

Frank Kozik is the artist that is generally regarded as the one who “single-handedly revived the [rock poster] scene.” He helped to make it what we know it as today. Going into Frank’s interview, I knew it was very important to ‘nail it,’ or else a crucial part of the movie would be missing. So, I won’t say I was nervous, but let’s just say, I was extra prepared for this one; questions written and re-written, equipment checked, then checked again, alarm set an hour early…the whole bit.

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