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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.) [MB]

"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." [MB]

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. [JSC]

38 years of Super Bowl commercials. [MB]

When Armin Hoffman meets Charlie's Angels: Albert Exergian's modernist TV posters. (Via VSL.) [MB]

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. [MB]

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. [JSC]

Through July 12, The New Typography in the Architecture and Design Galleries at MoMA. [MB]

Do you need shots of people doing things? We got that B roll! [MB]

Yamasaki Associates, designers of the World Trade Center complex, has closed, leaving behind "a welter of lawsuits and unpaid claims." [MB]

Project M is accepting applications for its next session, in Hilo, Hawaii. [JL]

"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." [MB]

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. [MB]

Unhappy Hipsters! (Thanks to Melissa Davis.) [JH]

Given its recent problems, maybe Toyota needs a different tagline than "Moving Forward." [MB]

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. [WD]

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. [MB]

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. [JSC]

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. [JL]

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. [JSC]

"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.) [MB]

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. [MB]

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. [MB]

The book (cover) that changed my life. Rest in peace, J. D. Salinger. [MB]

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