Week in Review: 05.19.12

This week on Design Observer:

40+ designers submitted pictures of themselves with their mother for our Mother’s Day tribute.

Our new series “Unusual Suspects” continued with a profile of Gene and Jackie Lacy, Indianapolis based designers and illustrators.

We announced our new poetry editor, Adam Plunkett, and published his first selection “When the Spirit Comes to Him as the Voice of Morning Light“.

Rob Walker explained why he isn’t so into the theater of making. But first he wondered how to deal with all the digital stuff we make.

Keith Eggener analyzed the Boley Building, which featured one of the first glass curtain walls in America — and he made good on his claim that Louis Curtiss’s legacy deserves new attention.

Mark Lamster lamented the impending destruction of 1960’s era architecture.

Rick Poynor was overwhelmed by “stuff” and pondered the strange afterlife of common objects.

John Thackara discussed food waste in cities and the need to design better systems.

Eric William Carroll took gorgeous photos of trees on blueprint paper.

Alexandra Lange went to Texas and tried to stay cool outside.

On our blog we posted about two new podcasts from RTE Ireland with typographic superstar Oded Ezer, Marvin Heiferman’s new twitter project Why We Look, a new Australian site with the tagline “Women, Architecture, Equity“, the architecture of television, Design for Change going global and The Hypothetical Development Organization.