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Homemade is Best, a beautifully
minimalist cook book, created for Ikea by design agency
Forsman & Bodenfors. Hopefully these instructions are easier to follow then their
assembly instructions. (Thanks to Kate Arding.)
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Design Observer's
Job Board has new jobs in Memphis, NYC, Austin, Milwaukee, Sarasota, SF, Ann Arbor, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland and Chicago. Companies hiring include ALSAC/St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Dell, Canon, AOL, Crocs, Nike, Bloomberg, Kabam and Philadelphia University.
Post your job today.
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Design Observer's
Job Board has new jobs in NYC, Dallas, SF, Minneapolis, Paris, DC, Miami, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Boston and Atlanta. Companies hiring include The Brand Union, Places [at] Design Observer, Goshen College, Small Planet Digital, Wild Planet Toys, Calvin Klein, Whole Foods, Nokia and Savannah College of Art and Design.
Post your job today.
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Launched at last Friday's
Why Design Now conference, a
website for sharing data visualizations on such themes as energy, health and the environment.
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Reviews of the London Design Festival are in: the Guardian's
Justin McGuirk takes issues with typography and
robots, (best line: "Either the designers are brilliantly subverting the idea of public art by bamboozling anyone naive enough to go and visit it, or they were so enthralled by the idea of robots in central London that they forgot to do anything interesting.") — while the Telegraph calls Neville Brody's
Anti-Design Festival the LDF's "
messy younger brother." More
here and
here.
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Big park: Urban Omnibus reports on
Brooklyn Bridge Park by
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates — New York City's new waterfront public space. Little park: Curbed SF reports on the new
Modular Parklet by
REBAR — a city block of new public space in the Mission District of San Francisco.
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Which American cities have the longest commutes? Some counterintuitive findings from a new report by CEOs for Cities and GOOD: See
Driven Apart. How to provide real options? Fast Company reports on high-speed rail
progress on the East Coast, via
Planetizen. And plans for
California's high-speed line move ahead.
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An inventive way to stir the US economy? How about
rebranding the buck?
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Design Observer's
Job Board has new jobs in SF, Cincinnati, Providence, Austin, Montreal, NYC, Atlanta, Boulder, Phoenix and Houston. Companies hiring include Caterpillar, Mayo Clinic, Match.com, Places [at] Design Observer, P&G;, Google Inc., Designkitchen, Whipsaw and RISD.
Post your job today.
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Kevin Richardson's
Speed Camera Lottery, which won
VW's Fun Theory competition, is now
up and running in Sweden.
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From Denstsu London, an animation technique developed to draw moving 3D typography and objects
with the iPad, extruding light forms through slow exposures. Astonishing. (Thanks to Rob Henning.)
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Typography makes history: our favorite genius, Matthew Carter,
wins MacArthur Award!
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Eye Over Prague, a documentary about the late Czech architect
Jan Kaplicky's controversial design for Prague's National Library, kicks off the first annual
NYC Architecture & Design Film Festival on Oct 14. Other works in the series are devoted to
Lucienne and Robin Day,
Vincent Scully,
Herbert Matter,
Samuel Mockbee, and Chicago's
Studio Gang.
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Steven Heller narrates
video on the history of
NY Times op-ed page art, featuring
Lou Silverstein,
J.C. Suares,
Jerelle Kraus,
Mirko Ilic,
Brad Holland,
Nicholas Blechman and
Brian Rea.
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Design Observer's
Job Board has new jobs in SF, Chicago, Cape Town, Portland, Brooklyn, Atlanta, Cleveland, Houston, NYC and Boston. Companies hiring include Huge, JWT Inside, Nike, Angle Orange, Arizona State University, msnbc.com, Nokia, Libby Perszyk Kathman and Hewlett-Packard.
Post your job today.
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For fans of
neutered sprites, here's the
all-girl team.
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Between
World Maker Faire touching down in New York this weekend and the provocatively named
Make Me exhibition of "
butch-craft" on view at Moss
, it's clear that small-batch hand-wrought items are still the rage. Also into the loop:
WSJ magazine
features a random collection of delightful, lumpy knitted household goods (lampshades, poufs, a rug resembling a potholder woven in summer camp by a race of giants).
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Design Observer's
Job Board has new jobs in NYC, Portland, Detroit, Austin, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Chicago, Toronto, Ho Chi Minh City and Memphis. Companies hiring include P9 Design, The Brown Buffalo, Vassar College, International Rescue Committee,
Metropolis Magazine, The Huffington Post, Second Story, Wowwee and Cowan.
Post your job today.
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Many New Orleans buildings have conspicuously seen better days, but there's hope even in decrepitude.
New York Times columnist
Rob Walker and his partners in the Hypothetical Development Organization are cooking up architectural signage for several sites that points the way to a cheerful future. Go
here to learn more and
here to donate to the project's Kickstarter campaign.
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Crispian Jago's
Subway Science is another brilliant entry into this fascinating and über-fetishized branch of urban cartography. Diehard map addicts might also enjoy Neil Freeman's comparative
size and density analysis. (Rachel Berger's discussion of San Francisco's BART map makeover can be found
here.)
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Architect
Kyle Bergman spearheads the first annual
New York Architecture and Design Film Festival, which is slated to run at Tribeca Cinemas October 14–17.
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On October 28, 2010, the
first in a series premieres:
Unit Editions Design Talks featuring
Storm Thorgerson and
Roger Dean. If in London, don't mis this event.
Buy tickets here.
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Design Observer's
Job Board has new jobs in Chicago, Memphis, NYC, Albuquerque, Cincinnati, Burlington, Seattle, Atlanta, Beijing and Austin. Companies hiring include BrandLogic, Jewish United Fund, Kent State University, Nokia, Fox Head, Organic, Inc., Tumi, Core Design and Pew Charitable Trusts.
Post your job today.
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Congratulations to John Foster, whose eye for hidden treasure provides the material for his brilliantly eccentric blog,
Accidental Mysteries — highlights of which were showcased yesterday via
Newsweek. Even better: we are delighted to announce that Accidental Mysteries will be part of the Design Observer Group. with weekend postings scheduled to begin the first weekend in October. Welcome, John Foster!
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A remarkable group of international designers contributed to
"Where Is My Vote? Posters for the Green Movement in Iran." The seeds for this exhibition, on display at
SVA's Visual Arts Gallery through September 25, were protests following Iran's 2009 presidential election. They have bloomed into 150 powerful graphic statements by the likes of
R.O. Blechman,
Cedomir Kostovic,
Anita Kunz,
Max Kisman,
Oded Ezer,
Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Design Observer's Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel. Go
here for the complete roster, and
here for co-organizer Steven Heller's video introduction.
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"Images of conflict from the African continent reflect a definite reality but represent only a small portion of the totality of sources necessary to understand such a large, diverse place."
Scott Poulter on the visual stereotyping of Africa, with photos and reading recommendations (
Gayatri Spivak,
Chinua Achebe,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, among others) for a rounder picture. (Via
Design-Altruism-Project.)
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Steven Heller
writes in praise of tolerance. For our story on the logo for the Cordoba Initiative, the organization behind the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero, go
here.
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What happens to the
dancing baby when he
grows up.
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Design Observer's
Job Board has new jobs in NYC, Chicago, Charleston, Burlington, SF, Portland, Boulder, Calgary, Phoenix, Singapore and Boston. Companies hiring include Smart Design, Zipcar, Addison, Microsoft, Electronic Ink, Motorola, e2, Everyday Health and Casabella.
Post your job today.
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Do you say pop, soda or Coke?
Mapping the generic names for soft drinks. (Via
VSL.)
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Sappi announces its 2010 Ideas That Matter
grant recipients.
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Twenty-five leading
letterpress printers each created 50 limited-edition notebooks with Loop paper donated by
Mohawk. They are being sold on a special
storefront on Felt & Wire Shop. 100% of the proceeds benefit kids via
School: By Design.
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Design Observer's
Job Board has new jobs in SF, Chicago, Boulder, NYC, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Louisville, London and Cleveland. Companies hiring include Berklee College of Music, Blade Design, Dell, Motorola, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Staples, Incase, Honda, Optimal Design and Yahoo.
Post your job today.
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Continuum and PepsiCo announce a new
Innovation Fellowship Program for Fall 2010. Six graduate student fellows, Continuum team, 24 Pepsi leaders, one day a week for 8 weeks, $4000 stipend, and a workshop process of creating transformative products and services. Would be great to have some designers win these fellowships. 9/15 deadline.
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By Debbie Millman
By Alexandra Lange
By Maria Popova
By Phil Patton
AIGA and Winterhouse Institute
By William W. Braham
By Michael Erard
By John Foster
By Mabel O. Wilson, Peter Tolkin
By Jade Dressler
By Luc Sante 
By Jane Margolies
By Deborah Gans
By Joshua Glenn
By Thomas de Monchaux
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