Designer Vale Joseph Churchward has passed away at 81. A 2009 recipient of the Design­ers Insti­tute of New Zea­l­and’s top honor, his typefaces include Churchward 70 (used in the Lonely Planet logo) and Churchward Maori.

British graphic designer Storm Thorgerson has passed away at age 69. Best known for his album covers for Pink Floyd, including The Dark Side of the Moon, his photos and collages also promoted bands from Phish to Led Zeppelin.

Heritage experts are appealing to Vladimir Putin to intervene to save the 1929 home of avant-garde architect Konstantin Melnikov. Made up of two intersecting cylinders, the Moscow house is threatened by a building project next door.

Columbia architecture grad students aren’t fond of Stefan Sagmeister’s design for The Abstract, a year-end book honoring top student work. They reportedly chucked copies—which directed users to download the publication online—out the windows of Avery Hall.

Adam Harvey’s show of “counter-surveillance fashions,” now on view in London, includes an anti-drone hoodie, a half-sweatshirt “made of silver, which is reflective to heat and makes the wearer invisible to thermal imaging.”

Inspired by Asian calligraphy and cowboy lettering, as well as his own history in graffiti, Amsterdam-based artist Job Wouters recently created a hand-painted mural, Home, in the Walker lobby. “A museum can be so much more than a place where some well-lit pieces hang and you feel scared and not at ease,” he said, explaining the title. “It’s very important to feel safe and comfortable at a museum.”

Walker building designers Herzog & de Meuron are among 12 architecture firms—including SANAA and Rem Koolhaas’ OMA—competing to design the Nobel Center in Stockholm, home to the Nobel Prize.

Painter Painter, co-curated by Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, is the Walker’s latest contemporary painting show, bringing together artists from around the country and Europe. Comprised entirely of new works, it serves as a conversation on the medium of painting today, and how these thirteen artists deal with the role of the painter in a […] Painter Painter, co-curated by Eric Crosby and Bartholomew…

constitute art IRL. are those graphical, spatial, and medial forms that can still be found in . contrast to the self-reproducing that is called contemporary architecture, design, or art. contrast to those forms that not only represent the global cultural system, but also global capitalism (for example ). They have not sacrificed identity to modernity, […] constitute art IRL. are those graphical, spatial, and…