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Webcast: Design for Emerging Markets
If you have an interest in humanitarian design and product development, you'll want to tune in this Thursday, October 29, to a live online seminar "Designing Products for Emerging Markets,...
written by: Sarah Rich10.27.09 -
Nendo Takes Over MADProjects Gallery
Starting this week, New York’s Museum of Arts and Design will cede control of its second-floor MADProjects Gallery to Nendo, a Tokyo-based studio known for its clever, subversive updates to...
written by: William Lamb10.26.09 -
Opportunity Green: This Weekend
This coming Saturday and Sunday, November 7 and 8, Opportunity Green will be hitting Los Angeles for its third consecutive year. The two-day conference brings together entrepreneurs and innovators...
written by: Sarah Rich11.06.09 -
Josef Albers Exhibition
As a pioneering voice in the diffusion of modern art and design, Josef Albers's contributions to printmaking, color theory and pedagogy cannot be overstated.
written by: Aaron Britt01.12.10 -
Iannis Xenakis Drawings
Though I fear that I won't get to see it in person, The Drawing Center in New York has just opened a new exhibit of architect and composer Iannis Xenakis's drawings. Iannis Xenakis: Composer,...
written by: Aaron Britt01.19.10 -
Final Weekend: Bauhaus at MoMA
This weekend marks the final days of the Museum of Modern Art's homage to the Bauhaus, the early-20th-century German school and movement that fostered and supported early modernism leaders like...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake01.20.10 -
VIA: 30 Years of Furniture Design
For 30 years, the Valorisation de L’Innovation dans l’Ameublement, affectionately known as VIA, has promoted contemporary, innovative furniture design with economical and eco-friendly...
written by: Suzy Evans01.29.10 -
The Guggenheim Fills the Void
Since it opened in New York City in 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has captivated the world--and its imagination. To celebrate the building's 50th anniversary, the museum...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake02.12.10 -
Take Note at the CCA
The 1960s was a prolific era of writing in architecture as masters penned their frustrations with the field and pushed it to become an element of pop culture while also increasing its intellectual...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake02.17.10 -
Imagining Home
What is a home? There's the obvious answer of a place of residence or--at an even more elementary level--a structure that provides shelter. But "home" carries a bigger meaning than just...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake03.09.10 -
How Many Billboards? in LA
Considering what a blight billboards can be on the urban landscape--São Paulo banned them in 2007, as have states like Maine--especially in car-centric spot like Los Angeles, it's little...
written by: Aaron Britt03.10.10 -
Palladio and His Legacy
Next month the Morgan Library and Museum presents a rare opportunity to see original drawings from one of the most influential classical architects in history, Andrea Palladio. Principles of...
written by: Breanne Bumanlag03.11.10 -
Landscapes of Quarantine
In the fall and winter of 2009/2010, Future Plural (the combined forces for former Dwell senior editor and BLDGBLOG author Geoff Manaugh and Edible Geography author Nicola Twilley) held a...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake03.17.10 -
Remy and Veenhuizen in DC
Bucking the going notion that the only conversation about design in Washington DC is of the "intelligent" kind, capital spot Industry Gallery is launching Hands On this weekend, an...
written by: Aaron Britt03.18.10 -
Glass Jar Terrariums
Terrariums have once again taken off--just like Indie Mart founder Kelly Malone's San Francisco craft space Workshop. Malone opened Workshop in September 2009 and has since been selling out classes...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.02.10 -
Epic Eames Auction Tomorrow
In the unlikely event you really haven't got enough Eames in your life, the Chicago auction house Wright is opening bidding tomorrow, April 8th, on a pretty large selection of Charles and Ray's...
written by: Aaron Britt04.07.10 -
Überblick by Thomas Heinser
Though the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge are certainly the most famous, there are in fact seven bridges that span the wide waters of the San Francisco Bay. German photographer Thomas Heinser has...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Thomas Heinser04.09.10 -
Other Space Odysseys
Last week, Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli opened at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal, Quebec. The exhibition explores solutions for space travel...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.16.10 -
Sunny Memories
Gathering solar energy doesn't need to be a process sequestered to the roof. To demonstrate the varied uses of a new dye solar cell invented at the University of Art and Design Lausanne (EPFL) in...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.17.10 -
Envelopes: Pratt Manhattan Gallery
A building envelop is to a structure as our skin is to our bodies. But whereas our protective outer layers are responsive to the environment (both inside and outside ourselves), the walls that wrap...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.29.10 -
Marin Living: Home Tours
Sadly I won't be able to make it, but if you're in the Bay Area next Saturday, May 15th, you should seriously consider signing up for the first AIASF home tour of the year. Marin Living: Home...
written by: Aaron Britt05.05.10 -
2010 BKLYN Designs
It's that time of year again—spring!—and this weekend BKLYN DESIGNS, a three-day contemporary design tradeshow featuring furniture, lighting, carpeting, flooring, and wall...
05.06.10 -
Oggetti e Progetti: 30 Years of Alessi
Italian designer and architect Alessandro Mendini, born in Milan in 1931, joined forces with the Italian design factory Alessi in the late 1970s as a kind of Postmodernist design mentor for the...
written by: Erika Heet05.13.10 -
Britain's Mid-Century Female Designers
Of the iconic women designers working in the mid-20th century, the two most often recognized—and adored—are Ray Eames and Lucienne Day (the female halves of two of the best-known...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake05.14.10 -
Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle
At Dwell, we love a nice bike just as much as (and sometimes more than) we adore a Bertoia chair or Bouroullec backrest—and rightly so since a well-crafted bicycle is just as much a...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake05.18.10
