In Which We Seek Your Design News

If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times: “I could tell you this Big Design News, but then I’d have to kill you.” Now you can give us the scoop and skip the messy task of plotting murder, thanks to our handy “Anonymous Tips” box nestled in the menu bar at right, below the search box. Simply type in your news—design happenings, movements of the Revolving Door, a bit of gossip, a designer’s hidden talent, or any newsy, design-y morsel—and click “Send.” And for those not inclined to clandestine tipping, we’re still just an e-mail away.

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Happy Holidays from UnBeige

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A Christmas card created by Dan Flavin and sent to artist Andrew Bucci in 1962. (Photo: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)

The word from the FAA is that Santa’s sleigh has cleared American airspace, and so as design lovers of all ages get to the business of unwrapping their bottles of Helvetica perfume, radiant orchid plants and foodstuffs, pewter wishbones, cut-paper Shakespeare classics, and 2014 typography calendars, we at UnBeige HQ wish you the brightest of holidays.

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Happy Fourth! Fun Design Facts to Ponder While You Wait for the Fireworks


Pill Flag,” artist Ray Geary’s prescription for patriotism. (Photo: Jordan Doner)

Happy birthday, USA—you don’t look a day over 200. Before heading out for a day of flag-themed frozen novelties, imported periodicals, and sparklers, lots and lots of sparklers, we assembled this list of a dozen fun facts—all gleaned from recent UnBeige stories—for you to muse upon during your own Fourth of July festivities. Enjoy the holiday!

• Designing brothers Humberto and Fernando Campana grew up in a house filled with crystals, plucked from farms in Brazil by their father, an agronomic engineer.

Kanye West‘s new album, Yeezus, was inspired by a Le Corbusier lamp.

• The Smithsonian’s first crowdfunding campaign is a success, having surpassed the $125,000 goal to back “Yoga: The Art of Transformation,” an upcoming exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. (You have until July 8 to donate.)

• You can spend eternity in a dwelling designed by Tom Kundig: the architect has designed a funerary urn.

• The Soviets made some swell notebooks. Rad and Hungry founder Hen Chung told us that Latvian composition books (with “yellowing pages, faded mint covers, and a simple rubber-stamped logo”) are her favorite of the items that have been included in her company’s country-themed cool-tools packs.
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Happy Thanksgiving from UnBeige


“Pies,” a 1961 painting by Wayne Thiebaud.

Before we return to our seasonal mission of preparing pies to resemble this delicious Wayne Thiebaud canvas, we offer up a giant slice of banana-cream thanks to you, dear readers, for joining us through another year of news, events, books, films, and curiosities in the world of design, art, and visual culture. May your Thanksgiving be restful, well-designed, and full of pie. And while you go about your own holiday preparations–redoing the placecards that your well-meaning aunt chose to print in Comic Sans, switching out the pilgrim-themed Ziggy napkins, discussing why the term “doorbuster” is not to be uttered in your presence–be sure to keep one eye on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which this year debuts a balloon designed by KAWS.

Macy’s tapped the New Jersey-born artist, also known as Brian Donnelly, to create the new addition to its “Blue Sky Gallery” series that has sent aloft the work of artists such as Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, and Tom Otterness. Donnelly saw his “Companion” character, the first toy he ever made, as ripe for transformation into 40 feet of inflatable, urethane-coated nylon. “I like taking an image and reworking it and having it made in new ways and materials, and communicating in different ways,” he told us earlier this year. And Donnelly is already thinking about the bashful balloon’s future. “Macy’s archives all of the balloons. They have every one that they’ve made since the 1930s, at least those that haven’t totally deteriorated,” he said. “My hope is that in ten or fifteen years, they do something where they show all of the artists’ balloons together.”


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Lum – A modern shelf for a modern multimedia equipment

We are a young start-up from San Diego that designs and builds products to fulfill a real need. Our first creation is llum media shelf – an elegant laser cut and engraved shelf for compact media equipment. Born form a need to solve a real issue, our product promotes consolidation of bulky media center and positioning of media equipment directly by your TV set. We believe that our product helps people regain control over burgeoning electronic centers and reclaim back the precious living space. Our product is guaranteed to “Lighten your life”!

Product and its sustainable packaging has been designed and built in California, USA.

We truly hope you like our product and can feature it on your site amongst other “thrilling” products!

Society of Publication Designers Releases iPad Annual

As everything in print is now also going the way of the iPad, why not design annuals as well? The Society of Publication Designers has just launched an iPad version of its latest, SPD 45, “featuring the best in editorial design, photography and illustration in print and digital.” The app itself is $19.99, which seems expensive, but maybe not so much when compared to the $50 you’d usually have to shell out for the hardcover. Sure, this electronic version won’t look nearly as nice on your shelf, but what can you do? Here’s the eSPD in action:

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Around the Design World in 180 Words: Miscellany Edition

If you’re a designer with a great idea for something online, now’s the time to strike while the iron is hot. Enrique Allen, founder of the incubator and investment fund 500 Startups, has announced the launch of The Designer Fund. Saying that designers don’t have as easy of a route to launch new web-based companies as programmers with technical know-how do, the fund’s goal is to “invest in startups that are founded by designers,” citing outlets like Flickr, Vimeo and Tumblr as all companies that were originally established up by designers.

If architecture is your more your speed, this Sunday marks the start of National Architecture Week, running from April 10th to the 16th. The American Institute of Architects is, per usual, the face behind the week of celebrating the business of building and have a number of things planned, from a Twitter sweepstakes to events held by local AIA chapters. They have a full listing of the latter here, but check with your local outlet as well, as we’re sure there’s more planned across the country.

Last, if you’re a designer wanting to get in on that Designer Fund cash or an aspiring architect inspired by next week’s events, but don’t own your own computer, why not just finally succumb to those criminal urges and break into an Apple Store and take one? Following a recent string of robberies at the company’s retail outlets across the country, NBC Chicago writes that the design of the stores, typically all-glass storefronts, could be too “enticing” for thieves to pass up. An official in the story, commenting on the theft of $30,000 worth of equipment at a suburban Chicago store, says he has talked to Apple about hiring guards or making the store generally more difficult to break into, but the company reportedly doesn’t seem very interested.

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MonkeyOh – Join the fight against cord clutter!

We’re at 23% and growing…but we need your help!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/588155957/monkeyoh-charging-dock-and-stand-for-iphone-and-ip

This week at Felix, we launched our first Kickstarter project for our newest product innovation – MonkeyOh, a versatile dock, stand, and cord wrap for smartphones. MonkeyOh can hold any iPhone or iPod Touch up at the outlet while it’s charging, with its cord wrapped neatly around. Oh, hello counter space!

We need your help…please spread the word about this fun and useful product! Let’s get MonkeyOh on outlets everywhere!

Thanks for joining the fight against cord clutter! We appreciate your help!
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