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Does anyone love movies more than Martin Scorsese? In case you missed it, the
Scorsese montage from the Golden Globes; his speech afterwards was graceful and passionate. (Thanks to Jim Biber.)
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Ice House Detroit is an architectural installation and social change project currently taking place in Detroit. Photographer
Gregory Holm and architect
Matthew Radune will use one of 20,000 abandoned houses and
freeze it in solid ice to reference the contemporary urban conditions in the city and beyond."
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Design Observer's
Job Board has new jobs in Chicago, DC, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Boston, NYC, Portland, SF, Vienna and Austin. Companies hiring include Lowe's, Whirlpool, Stella & Dot, Kakai, Sheridan & Co, Department of the Treasury and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.
Post your job today.
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38 years of Super Bowl commercials.
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When Armin Hoffman meets Charlie's Angels:
Albert Exergian's modernist TV posters. (Via
VSL.)
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Great summary by Paul Soulellis of last night's heated debate, sponsored by
AIGANY, over the
signage system and
map designed by
Unimark in the 60s and 70s for the New York City subway. 40 years later, and tensions are still
running high.
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It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.
Tickets for the
99% Conference are now on sale. The conference takes place April 15-16, 2010 in NYC at the Times Center. Guest speakers include:
Stefan Sagmeister,
John Maeda,
Jack Dorsey,
Eve Blossom,
Jay O'Callahan,
Fred Wilson and others. See our very own Michael Bierut's presentation at last year's conference
here.
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Design Observer's
Job Board has new jobs in Portland, LA, Vienna, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, NYC, Chicago and Milan. Companies hiring include Barnes and Noble, Cinco Design Office, Gymboree, Digitas, Kolar Design, Joby Inc. and Missouri School of Journalism.
Post your job today.
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Through July 12,
The New Typography in the
Architecture and Design Galleries at MoMA.
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Do you need shots of people doing things?
We got that B roll!
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Yamasaki Associates, designers of the
World Trade Center complex, has
closed, leaving behind "a welter of
lawsuits and unpaid claims."
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Project M is accepting
applications for its next session, in
Hilo, Hawaii.
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"Most designers cannot write. I don't mean they can't write like Faulkner. I don't mean they don't have a discernable prose style. I mean they cannot WRITE. They do not know where to put a subject and a verb and a capital and a period.
They are functionally illiterate."
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Since it reopened last year, the
Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, has been the venue of a series of intimate
conversations. They've been moderated by, among others,
Roger Mandle,
Laurie Beckelman,
Maurice Cox, and
John Maeda; the themes have included
Breaking the Rules,
Transparency, and
Design and Civic Leadership.
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Unhappy Hipsters! (Thanks to Melissa Davis.)
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Given its
recent problems, maybe Toyota needs a different
tagline than "
Moving Forward."
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Design Observer is pleased to announce that one of our favorite writers and editors,
Mark Lamster, author of
Master of Shadows and
fellow blogger, will be joining our regular stable of contributing writers. Welcome Mark, we very much look forward to more of your
essays.
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The US National Endowment for the Arts, seeking a new "Art Works" logo,
confuses an RFP (Request for Proposals) with an RFFW (Request for Free Work), with only one lucky winner promised a $25,000 payoff. As Chairman Rocco Landesman tells us, "'Art works' is a reminder that arts workers are real workers with real jobs" — who work on spec, evidently. Sigh.
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Design Observer's
Job Board has new jobs in Savannah, SF, Prague, St. Louis, Chicago, NYC, Pittsburgh, Madison and Boston. Companies hiring include Gap Inc., Wunderbar, Martha Stewart Living, Ann Taylor, Goddard Claussen, SK+G and Columbia College.
Post your job today.
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Priceless 1994
video of the late
Muriel Cooper demonstrating experiments in dynamic, interactive, computer-based typography by her
students from
MIT Media Lab's
Visible Language Workshop.
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From Elliott Malkin,
Mother's History of Birds, a 7-minute documentary about his artist mother and her long and storied history with pet birds. And don't miss
Everything I Know About Hyman Victor and other
home movies.
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"This is a blog documenting a project that will span exactly one year, from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010. On each of those 365 days, I will photograph or draw (and occasionally paint) one collection."
Lisa Congdon presents
A Collection a Day, 2010. (Thanks to Dean Morris.)
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Documentary editor
Karen Schmeer, who helped shape, among many other films, Errol Morris's
The Fog of War,
dies at 39, the victim of a hit-and-run accident. A tragedy.
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Over 650
Philip K. Dick book covers.
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The light blue
Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter on which
Cormac McCarthy wrote 5 million words in over 45 years,
has been auctioned off for $254,500. Previously on DO, Rick Poynor eulogizes
his own manual typewriter.
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The book (cover) that changed my life. Rest in peace, J. D. Salinger.
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