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Explore - Art
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Re-Opening: The Museum of Arts and Design
Two Columbus Circle once was a stout-yet-hip white building with black porthole-esque forms around it: channeling 1960s mod better than any building could, courtesy of architect Edward Durell Stone...
written by: Jamie Waugh09.14.08 -
Mixed Signals
Leave it to the French to have fun with something extraordinarily mundane.
written by: Laure Joliet09.18.08 -
London Design Festival
The London Design Festival party last night was full of hedge-funders seeking free drinks and nibbles. The city, reeling from this week's events, seemed to turn up in force at the down-at-heel arts...
written by: Sam Jacob09.18.08 -
London Design Festival: Kanittha Mairaing
Goldsmiths' postgraduate design community have a show at The Boiler House, Old Truman Brewery, on Brick Lane as part of the London Design Festival. Amongst the work shown is the 'Unfortunates'...
written by: Sam Jacob09.23.08 -
Systematic Landscapes exhibit at the de Young Museum
Maya Lin’s newly opened exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, titled Systematic Landscapes, depicts a stunning collection of recent and brand-new works that explore what the New...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake11.04.08 -
Marc Tetro
Not only was MOS Archtiects’ Floating House (featured on the cover of our November 2008 issue) a big hit, so was the art hung on their walls.
written by: Miyoko Ohtake11.06.08 -
Prospect.1
New Orleans is known for its sultry jazz and tasty po-boys, but it’s also developing a reputation as a center for modern and contemporary design. This was particularly evident when I was in...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake11.21.08 -
My Paradise: A Hundred Years of Finnish Architects’ Summer Homes Exhibit at AIA San Francisco gallery
Summer houses have always held a special place in Finnish culture—and in the careers of its architects, who have used them not only for catching up on rest and relaxation, but as experimental...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake12.16.08 -
Interview with Jürgen Mayer H.: Part II
Last week I sat down over an Anchor Steam with Jurgen Mayer H. of the Berlin-based architecture firm J. Mayer H. at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's cafe. In the first part of my...
written by: Aaron Britt02.12.09 -
My Favorite Thing: Aaron's Senegalese Statue
In this installment of My Favorite Thing, editor Aaron Britt shares a gift given to him by some students, and contemplates its power to influence his future.
written by: Jordan Kushins02.20.09 -
What the Font?
Ever ask yourself, "Is that Arial or Helvetica?" (Or for type snobs, "Is that Helvetica or Helvetica Neue?") Then WhatTheFont may be the iPhone application for you. WhatTheFont...
written by: David A. Greene02.22.09 -
Matryoshka: Public Art in West LA
As the LA Times attempts a controversial mapping of LA neighborhoods, which appears to be creating more divisions in the city than anything else, a public art show in West Hollywood is embracing...
written by: Laure Joliet02.26.09 -
The Soft Spot
As designers embrace the idea of directing their skills toward doing good in the world, a collective of students and alumni from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco have launched an...
written by: Sarah Rich03.03.09 -
Living in Levittown
One of the criticisms of suburbia is its homogeneity—and there's no better example of monotonous development than the Levittown communities built in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The history books...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake03.09.09 -
The Relief Chair and Fashioning Felt
At first glance I thought this chair was made from the rather hard and inhospitable charcoal-colored packing material that often surrounds new electronics inside shipping boxes. But upon closer...
written by: Sarah Rich03.11.09 -
Chris Jordan's Plastic Provocation
Artist Chris Jordan has become something of a cult figure for the green set, with his growing portfolio of mind-bending large-scale art that depicts our culture of consumption and waste in...
written by: Sarah Rich05.11.09 -
A Clearing in the Streets
Frederick Law Olmsted brought nature to New York in his carefully controlled design of Central Park. In that green oasis amid the city’s dense buildings, nature comes to urbanites in...
written by: Drew Himmelstein06.04.09 -
Touring Design for a Living World
Design for a Living World is a new "green" exhibition at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. For the show, the museum commissioned ten leading designers...
written by: Rachael Grad06.09.09 -
coolcapitals Competition
Calling all graphic designers and overall creative types: You only have three more days to submit your geographically inspired creation for the coolcapitals contest. Time is running out!
written by: Amanda Dameron07.24.09 -
Re-imagining Chinatown
If you are in Los Angeles this weekend (or any time before September 5), be sure to pay a visit to Fifth Floor Gallery to take part in the new interactive exhibition Re-imagining Chinatown by urban...
written by: Sarah Rich08.05.09
