Observed

Observed|Collections

1920s Chicago Transit Posters

Chicago-L.org has a small, but gem filled collection of Chicago transit posters from the 1920s.

Observed|Essays

Bringing Data and Storytelling Together

In a guest post on the Tribeca Film Institute blog, Ingrid Kopp, the U.S. Director of Shooting People, explores the reltionship between data ans storytelling.

Observed|Video

AIGA Medalist Video Profiles

Video profiles of the 2013 AIGA medalists created by dress code.

Observed|New Ideas

Be an AIGA Design Star

Command X — the AIGA live design reality show that happens on stage at the biennial design conference — is back for its fourth season.

Observed|Competitions

Wheelwright Prize 2013 Winner

Gia Wolff, Brooklyn-based architect, wins $100,000 travel grant for her proposal Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats.

Observed|Collections

Flickr Collection of the Week: Are these Buildings? Or Art?

Images of architecture as art.

Observed|Photos

Reimagining the Serpentine Pavilion

Sou Fujimoto is the youngest-ever artist to design a pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery

Observed|Miscellaneous

Working For Free

A designer posts an ad on Craigslist for other professionals to provide work for free.

Observed|Miscellaneous

Barbie, Revisited

Artist Nikcolay Lamm asked what Barie would look like as an average woman.

Observed|Books

Secret Fore-Edge Paintings Revealed

Observed|Books

Recent Books Received: 09.26.13

Murals of New York City: The Best of New York's Public Paintings from Bemelmans to Parrish by Glenn Palmer-Smith, Joshua McHugh and Graydon Carter; EP Volume 1/ The Italian Avant-Garde 1968-1976 Edited by Alex Coles, Catharine Rossi; Shiro …

Observed|Projects

The A to Z Project

Bierut, Doyle, Gill, Haze + 40 more...all in the A to Z Project for FreeArtsNYC.