“Are video games art? They sure are, but they are also design, and a design approach is what we chose for this new foray into this universe,” writes architecture/design curator Paola Antonelli on MoMA’s acquisition of 14 games, including Pac-Man and Tetris.

“[O]ur design schools now have undoubtedly produced the design culture we share today,” writes Rob Giampietro, a principal at New York’s Project Projects, in his essay—now published online—from our catalogue for Graphic Design: Now in Production.

The Hirshhorn’s Bubble, a $15.5 million temporary inflatable structure by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, “seems like little more than an inflated take on the event-as-art endeavor with a pronounced D.C. flavor,” writes Kriston Capps, an editor at Architect magazine.

Continuing Latitudes’ #OpenCurating series, Ethel Baraona Pohl, associate curator of the Istanbul Design Biennial, discusses “adhocracy,” something that “captures opportunities, self-organizes and develops new and unexpected methods of production.”

Matter Architecture Projects’ Veterans Day installation, Peace and Quiet, has opened in Times Square. Situated across from an Army recruiting station, the project is a “dialogue station” where veterans and civilians can share conversation in a peaceful space.

The legendary Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, Wisc., owns 1.5 million pieces of wood type—all of which must now be boxed up. The owners of the building that bears Hamilton’s name are forcing the move, prompting a fundraising effort to cover costs.

Printed Matter, the legendary New York nonprofit dedicated to artist-made books, was especially hard hit by Hurricane Sandy’s floodwaters. It’s now fundraising to urgently digitize parts of its archive damaged by mold and water.

Designer Anthony Burrill, part of Graphic Design: Now in Production (now on view at the Hammer), offers a look at his bookshelf and titles ranging from a 1946 wood type catalogue to a book of Yasaburo Kuwayama trademarks.

Apple has been granted a patent on rounded corners for rectangular electronic devices. “It’s tempting to think that patents are becoming more absurd,” writes Christopher Mims, “but that would be a mistake.”