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Hang-Over: Art Basel Miami Banners are Cultural Bank Notes
The Gradient
Dec 2012
Here in Miami, Art Basel and related fairs are now far-past, full-swing. Art has been shown. Parties have been thrown. Many flights have departed, and tents will now come down. For now and a little longer we are all hung-over on Art, Basel and our drugs of choice. Mine is graphic design.
A few weeks ago—largely overnight—a sea of printed banners popped up all over Miami. Their function was to announce…
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It’s Emerald
Via pantone.com
Dec 2012
PANTONE 17-5641—aka Emerald—is 2013’s color of the year, according to the company billed as “the global authority on color.” The jewel-like hue symbolizes healing, growth, and rejuvenation—and it “translates easily to both fashion and home interiors.”
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SCI-Arc Online
Via mediabistro.com
Dec 2012
Thanks to funding from the Getty and the NEA, the Southern California Institute of Architecture’s Media Archive is now online, featuring 1,000+ hours of architecture/design lectures and events with Frank Gehry, Charles Eames, Zaha Hadid, and others.
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Passings: Oscar Niemeyer
Via guardian.co.uk
Dec 2012
Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect behind iconic buildings from Rio’s Sambadrome to the UN secretariat in New York, has died at age 104. The “Picasso of concrete” is best known for his designs for Brasília, the planned city that is his native country’s capital.
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Catalog and Archive: two Szeemann designs
The Gradient
Dec 2012
For Craig Buckley’s fall workshop “Publication, Politics, and Print: Episodes from the Twentieth Century” each first and second-year student of the Yale Graphic Design MFA presented one or more publications from the special collections of either the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library or the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library. I picked the catalogue […]
For Craig Buckley’s fall workshop “Publication…
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The Making of the Lifelike Catalog
The Gradient
Nov 2012
Lifelike, a Walker-organized exhibition curated by Siri Engberg, and now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is documented by its eponymous catalog. I sat down last March with João Doria to talk about the making (and thinking) of the book. Transcript of João Doria with Andrea Hyde on the Lifelike catalog J: […]
Lifelike, a Walker-organized exhibition curated by Siri Engberg, and now on view at the New…
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Game Collection
Via moma.org
Nov 2012
“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.
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Design School Days
Via linedandunlined.com
Nov 2012
“[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.
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Bursting the Bubble
Via tnr.com
Nov 2012
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.