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Espresso Library
Via dezeen.com
Oct 2012
Tokyo design studio Nendo has created a pop-up Starbucks Coffee designed as a library. Nendo explains that visitors “choose an espresso drink as they would a book, and verse themselves in espresso drinks as though quietly entering into a fictional world.”
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Glowing Gaudi
Via archpaper.com
Oct 2012
Barcelona’s 120-year-old La Sagrada Familia recently experienced a modern transformation. Thanks to Montreal-based media studio Moment Factory the cathedral’s facade showcased a fantastic Gaudi-inspired multimedia light display last month.
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Modern Living
Via tumblr.com
Oct 2012
Thanks to an NEH grant, the Indianapolis Museum of Art has begun online documentation of the Saarinen-designed Miller House & Garden in Indiana, gathering digitized letters, blueprints, photos, and fabric swatches from the mid-century Modernist gem.
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Made in LA
Via creativereview.co.uk
Oct 2012
Colby Poster Printing and Anthony Burrill share a new show at London’s KK Outlet. Burrill’s text-based works, printed by Colby, are on view alongside the LA printer’s archive. See Burrill’s work at our design show, now at the Hammer in LA.
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Blogs

Over-Booked: Drucksache
The Gradient
Oct 2012
Drucksache is a publishing house based in Stockholm, founded in 2010 by Jacob Grønbech Jensen, Rikard Heberling and Emi-Simone Zawall. So far they have published five works, focusing mainly on poetry, linguistics and artists’ books, all by contemporary Swedish writers, except for the most recent publication: the first Swedish translation of Martin Heidegger’s On the […]
Drucksache is a publishing house…
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MoMA R&D
Via galleristny.com
Oct 2012
MoMA has named design curator Paola Antonelli as its first R&D director. In the newly created position, she’ll help the museum “evaluate new initiatives and identify new directions and unexplored opportunities, particularly in the digital realm.”
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Wright Reprieve
Via google.com
Oct 2012
The Phoenix home Frank Lloyd Wright designed for his son won’t fall to bulldozers yet. On Wednesdays, developers and city officials sealed a deal to postpone demolition while a new buyer for the 1952 spiral structure is found.
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Wright House Battle
Via nytimes.com
Oct 2012
A spiral house Frank Lloyd Wright designed for his son could be razed by developer 8081 Meridian. Preservationists are campaigning to save the 1952 home in Phoenix’s Arcadia neighborhood, but the city council could OK demolition on Nov. 7.
