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pemPivot Table by Studio Glithero, top. White Billion by Tina Roeder, bottom./em/p

pFendi continues its collaboration with designers and artists with a show at a href=”http://www.galleryfumi.com”Fumi/a entitled ‘In Every Dream Home’./p

pUpstairs cabinets by Paul Keeley explore unusual material and colour combinations, while downstairs are the stunning new works by a href=”http://www.studioglithero.com”Studio Glithero/a, who used metal profiles to carve out plaster blocks sitting on slender wooden frames, pictured top./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/london_design_festival_10/london_design_festival_2010_studio_glithero_at_gallery_fumi__17486.asp”(more…)/a
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pPaola Antonelli has posted a fantastic interview with Core-fave Rob Walker. They discuss a href=”http://significantobjects.com/”Significant Objects/a, a runaway literary project about how objects in the real world become significant through the telling of a good story. /p

pHere’s a tip-top excerpt; read the entire thing a href=”http://wp.moma.org/talk_to_me/2010/09/the-object-whisperer-an-interview-with-rob-walker/”here/a./p

blockquotePA – You knew this was coming: do you have a favorite object?

pRW – Yes, it’s hard to answer and I give different and inconsistent responses when I’m asked this. One answer is my wedding ring, but the problem with that answer is that there isn’t a great to elaborate on. So here’s another answer. There’s a book I have that used to belong to my father–it’s called A Handbook For Writing, and it’s just an old textbook, with a very plain cloth cover. On the back, my father, as a bored student evidently, drew a picture of a Bugs Bunny-like rabbit. I was absolutely thunderstruck by this when I first encountered it. I was a sullen twelve years old or so, and I couldn’t believe that a) here was evidence of my father, a very upright fellow, having goofed off, and b) the drawing is quite good. His primary professional interest was (he’s retired now) engineering, and I ‘d never thought of him having an “artistic side,” per se. So this object, because of how he’d altered it, had the effect of opening up a different side of him, and simultaneously opening up this whole mystery — the mystery of what your parents were like before you existed, which is a difficult thing to comprehend at age 12. Anyway I took this book with me at some point and never gave it back. From time to time I take it off a shelf in my office and look at it. It still fascinates me./blockquote /pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/the_object_whisperer_an_interview_with_rob_walker__17484.asp”(more…)/a
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pimg alt=”esserman.jpg” src=”http://www.core77.com/blog/images/esserman.jpg” width=”240″ height=”361″ class=”mt-image-left” style=”float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;” /It took a moment of family trauma for a href=”http://www.monitortalent.com/talent/Dean-Esserman-Profile.html”Colonel Dean Esserman/a to figure out how he needed to transform the Providence police department. The upset arose when the police chief’s son made a sad phone call from Washington D.C. to report a stolen bicycle. Esserman was pissed. Not with his son, of course (though he quickly and ruefully realized he’d be the one taking care of replacing the bike). But because it suddenly dawned on him that this type of situation epitomized what’s wrong with the contemporary policing system. /p

p”The reality is that in the post-modern era of America… we have lost the relationship with the community. When you’re a victim of crime, big or small, you report it but you tell who you know. And you don’t know the police any more,” Esserman told the rapt audience at the recent a href=”http://businessinnovationfactory.com/bif-6″BIF conference/a, a two-day celebration of often-unexpected innovation held at the Trinity Rep theatre in Providence, RI. (See also my a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/bif6_reporting_from_the_first_day_of_the_business_innovation_factorys_annual_shindig_17399.asp”report of some of the highlights of the first day/a.) So while policy wonks might wring their hands at the staggering statistics of unreported crime, Esserman saw a new story. “Crime does get reportedmdash;just not to the authorities, but to dads, moms, roommates, neighbors, pastors,” he said. And that’s when Esserman resolved to take action./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/columns/the_innovators_mindset_can_you_turn_mud_into_gold_17462.asp”(more…)/a
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pAt Core77, we’re kinda jumping out of our pants with excitement about tomorrow’s start of a href=”http://makerfaire.com/newyork/2010/”World Maker Faire New York/a, which will occupy the New York Hall of Science out in Queens Saturday and Sunday, September 25th and 26th. The a href=”http://makerfaire.com/newyork/2010/schedule/”list of events/a is beyond-huge, the a href=”http://makerfaire.com/search.csp?e=1466″list of makers/a is even huger, and with bookend keynotes by Chris Anderson and Mark Frauenfelder, the weekend is sure to be extraordinary./p

pGet your tickets at event, and hope to see you there!/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/maker_faire_ny_is_this_weekend_17487.asp”(more…)/a
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