Archive for April, 2009
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Visit Blue Ant Studio! Isamu Noguchi Smithsonian Magazine April 1978 Mid Century Eames 1 Bid US $20.00 1d 21h 41m Vintage Falkland Pendant Lamp Bruno Munari Danese 1964 eames noguchi knoll era 1 Bid US $299.00 2d 1h 24m Noguchi …
How to Find Your Amazing Work
Post written by Leo Babauta.
Last week, when I wrote the simple guide to Getting Amazing Things Done, a commenter asked me to write a 12-step guideSeb Lester :: Mightier
Visit Black White Bliss! Beautiful new limited edition A2 poster by by Seb Lester. Metallic gold lettering on a luxurious black paper. Contact Seb for
How-To: Reuse Your Super Bowl Beer Bottle Caps
The answer is Penetrol, my friends
Visit LandLiving! I have six original Eames shell chairs which I picked up at a garage sale four years ago. Ever since (with much procrastination in between,
Marmol Radziner + Associates
Visit LandLiving! We've featured a few articles about MR+A's work in the past, from furniture to prefab, so I was pretty stoked to open the mailbox
Mashable NextUp NYC: RSVP Today!
Visit Mashable! The second Mashable NextUp NYC is almost here! The next event in the series is titled Lessons from the Local Internet Startup Community, and
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Working with Textures
Read article at Vandelay Website Design Being able to work with texture in Photoshop gives you endless possibilities for your design. There are a variety of different
20+ Tutorials for Working with Photoshop’s Tools
Read article at Vandelay Website Design There are a lot of great Photoshop tutorials online that will teach you all kinds of techniques and tricks, but sometimes
Monoprints…
Wooden quilt…
Crocheted stools…
So cozy…
Visit AnotherShadeOfGrey Soul warming home goods from Art of Earth.
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Ceramics…
Raft Table…
Concrete table…
Narrative Planetarium
Visit BldgBlog! Before his talk last week at Postopolis! LA, Matthew Coolidge, director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, joked that someday
Nocturnal Projections
Visit BldgBlog! [Image: A dream of freeways above the city, at Postopolis! LA; I believe this was from Ted Kane's presentation. Photo by
The Final Stretch
Visit BldgBlog! We've got a huge final night planned here at Postopolis! LA, after an incredibly interesting Day Four (which you can read about via
Friday Night Lights
Visit BldgBlog! [Image: Postopolis! LA, photographed by Gaia Cambiaggi. Check out the Postopolis! LA Flickr pool for more]. Another reminder that we're up here,
Park Stories
Visit BldgBlog! [Image: Hyde Park, London. Image courtesy of The Royal Parks]. Note: This is a guest post by Nicola Twilley. The Royal Parks of
The Lost Airfields of Greater Los Angeles
Visit BldgBlog! [Image: An airplane flies above Los Angeles, a landscape of now-forgotten airports]. Buried beneath the streets of Los Angeles are lost airfields, airports whose runways have
Southern Exposure
Visit BldgBlog! [Image: Elias Redstone stands inside the facade of Casa Poli, designed by Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects; read more about
Talks, Tours, and the Cities of Tomorrow
Visit BldgBlog! [Image: Photo by Satya Pemmaraju, courtesy of the Architectural League]. Here are some upcoming events, courses, and lectures that I would attend if I
Super NAFTA Land
[Image: From ¡Super NAFTA Land! by Richie Gelles].
Another project from the Rice University final thesis reviews that I helped to jury
Photography, Rights, Media
[Image: From the amazing Superheroes series by photographer Gregg Segal].
As many readers will no doubt know, the New York Times last week
Death, dust, decay
[Image: From Library of Dust by David Maisel].
In an earlier post, I mentioned that there will be at least one more
Circle and District
[Image: Napoleon in Egypt].
I started reading Nina Burleigh's recent book Mirage on the flight over to New York this afternoon. Burleigh's book
Kind of Blue
It's nice to see a friend (and coworker) get an opportunity to discuss his work: Dwell's Design Director, Kyle Blue, talks to
Backstage @ BLDGBLOG
It's been a pretty slow week here with new posts, but there is a lot going on; I thought I'd relay some news to everyone,
Guardians of Architecture
[Image: The Guardian's architecture blog roll, cropped down from a scan by John Coulthart; view larger].
I was excited to see
Surgeon of Space
[Image: Grapes, 2008, by Ai Weiwei; courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company].
The new exhibition Ai Weiwei: Four Movements opened today
Socialize with Design Shrine