Category: Reviews

Julie Lasky|Reviews

This End Up: Renzo Piano's Modern Wing

The Art Institute of Chicago, view of Modern Wing from Monroe Street. Photo: Charles G. Young, Interactive Design ArchitectsI was born in Chicago and raised up the road, but I never heard the word “fragility” associated with my …

Ernest Beck|Reviews

Olive Drab: BKLYN DESIGNS 2009

"Burn Lamp," OSO IndustriesI’ve been to design fairs in Paris, London, Cologne, New York and Miami, as a reporter and a plus one, and no matter what the locale, I usually walk away with the same slightly depressing thought: impressed by …

Julie Lasky|Reviews

Back to the Garden

Event poster at International Furniture Fair in Milan, 2009When the Italian design gallerist Rossana Orlandi serves sit-down dinner for ninety during the International Furniture Fair in Milan, she doesn’t mess around. Her table stretches …

Kerry Saretsky|Reviews

Curious Case of the Better Adaptation

Tales of the Jazz Age, the collection of stories in which The Curious Case of Benjamin Button first appeared in 1922. Illustration by John Held, Jr. Now that I am comfortably “well-read” in my twenties with a Master’s in modern …

Rick Poynor|Reviews

Barney Bubbles: Optics and Semantics

“Get Happy!!” poster for Elvis Costello and the Attractions, 1980Barney Bubbles has a unique place in British graphic design. Even more than Robert Brownjohn, who also died much too soon, Bubbles feels both known and unknown. If only …

Alexandra Lange|Reviews

The Brooklyn Children's Museum

The Brooklyn Children's Museum is hardly subtle in its attempt to please the Toys "R" Us crowd.

Steven Heller|Reviews

Breakdowns: A Review

Cover of Art Spiegelman's new book BreakdownsArt Spiegelman’s Breakdowns, his first anthology of autobiographical and experimental comics was originally published in 1978. Hard to believe that thirty years later, a new edition, …

David Cabianca|Reviews

Two Lines Align

Installation views: Two Lines Align: Drawings and Graphic Design by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge, Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles, 2008Two Lines Align: Drawings and Graphic Design by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge was the first exhibition of …

Tracy Jenkins|Reviews

D.I.Y.: Design it Yourself

Embroidery by Zvezdana Rogic. Design is, more than ever, a way to relate to the world around us. Our fascination with design, as both a process and an ideal, is reflected in the products and services that are increasingly available to the …