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.”

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.

Japanese architect Toyo Ito, featured in the Walker’s 1986 show Tokyo: Form and Spirit, has won this year’s Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most presigious honor. The 71-year old is best know for his Sendai Mediatheque, a seven-story glass box completed in 2001.

For its Ai Weiwei show, According to What?, the Hirshhorn presented its catalogue content two ways—as a $40 book or a $5 magazine. “The result was over 9,000 magazines sold, far more than the number of catalogues that usually sell for any given show.”