“The elder statesman of radical ideas,” Stewart Brand’s ’60s bona fides include publishing the revolutionary Whole Earth Catalog and cofounding the Well. At 74, he’s not slowing down: he’s now trying to resurrect extinct species by retro-engineering their DNA.

Commemorating the 93rd anniversary of Saul Bass’ birth, Google dedicates a video Doodle, featuring riffs on/homages to the legendary designer’s best movie title sequences, including Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Anatomy of a Murder.

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.