A new series of ink sketches on vintage German songbook pages by the lovely Susan from Arte Esprit … the songbook pages were given to her by her friend Angie of omondieu! this summer in Germany … the original sketches are all available at Susan’s etsy shop …
Or, Death To Trolls…
So far, on CR Blog, we have limited the moderation to anything that is openly offensive or potentially libellous. However, of late the quality of the debate here has been suffering from a rash of comments that really contribute nothing.
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I just discovered fric_de_mentol on DaWanda … and I love his work, what a fun collection of artwork … I’m not sure whether fric is man or a woman, but did found that he or she is from Portugal … blog …
Gary Hustwit, the director known for his documentary film on the Swiss typeface, Helvetica, has just released a first glimpse of his latest work. He’s spent considerable time interviewing product design’s heads of state and put together Objectified.
I’m especially inspired because in just 90 seconds of preview, there were a few familiar faces. David Kelley, a co-founder of IDEO, is an alumnus from my graduate program and is a major part of the Stanford Design program and d.school. We have had the pleasure of visiting his incredible home, which was designed by Ettore Sottsass, and saw the garage, which houses part of his collection of fantastic vehicles. Bill Moggridge is another co-founder of IDEO and is lauded as a founder of interaction design. He’s the author of a book on the subject and we’ve had the honor of his company over beers in the courtyard in front of our workspace. I can’t wait to see this film.
Contemporary auctions for design objects have been fetching prices that rival great artworks. These pieces are typically sitting on the same auction block. Where can one draw the line between a utilitarian design object and an artistic expression? Probably in the production quantity. Limited edition pieces by sought-after designers have the singularity of fine art, although the purpose of limited edition design objects can typically be attributed to bumping up a price tag.
There’s a good synopsis of five design-as-art movements at ARTINFO. They touch upon The Wiener Werkstätte, The Bauhaus, American Studio, Memphis, and Functional Art.
Some representative pieces:
The statue of Louis Agassiz, fallen from the Zoology building at Stanford after the earthquake in 1906. Someone was quoted in the papers as saying Louis Agassiz “was great in the abstract, but not in the concrete.”
The SFMOMA is running an exhibit of Martin Puryear’s sculptures. With tremendous thanks to Chris and Kate, who got me a museum membership, I’ve visited the exhibit twice already. I really liked every single piece without exception, but I think my favorite was Old Mole (1985) shown above.
Want to know the top design blogs according to Alexa? Well, we’ve compiled all 90 of them. I have no clue how they come up with these rankings, but hey, these are great sites to check out and bookmark! (ReubenMiller ranks 24 – not bad.)
1. Treehugger
2. MoCo Loco
3. Inhabitat
4. Cool Hunting
6. NOTCOT
10. Design You Trust
12. Swissmiss
13. Cribcandy
14. Josh Spear
15. Design Observer
16. Positive Space
17. Hawksmont
18. Oh Joy!
19. It’s Nice That
20. Functioning Form
21. The Ad Mad
22. Sub-Studio
24. Reuben Miller
27. Poppytalk
28. Print Pattern
29. 2Modern
30. Design Sojourn
31. Roadside Scholar
32. Idealist
33. Curiobot
34. Design Notes
36. Land Living
37. Designers Block
38. Decor8
39. Architectradure
40. Design Crack
41. Absolutely Beautiful Things
42. Design Sponge
43. Serial Consign
44. Elit Alice
46. Twenty1f
47. 30gms
49. Oh My So Cute
50. Cuteable
51. Rolling Rains
52. Style Court
53. Scoutie Girl
55. Bookmarkd
56. Redsil
57. Push A Pixel
59. DesignTaleStudio
61. Trend Insights
62. Funfurde
63. 49 Sparks
64. Studio469
65. Neo Nomad
66. ImedaGoze
68. LedLightRay
69. PagePlane
71. Raven’s Nest
72. Design Scout
73. Rebang
74. Reverseorbit
75. Inert Greymatter
76. Trendmatter
77. Design Boston
81. Greenwix
82. Old Glutton
83. Blog Sessions
85. Dog Opus
86. Rag and Bone
88. Lena Corwin
89. Obsidian Dawn
90. All the Best
Christine Schmidt from Yellow Owl Workshop is Student Of The Month over at ReForm School and her exclusive collection original paintings for ReForm School are just super and very affordable … here you can find them all …
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