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Minnesota’s Best
Via aigaminnesota.org
May 2012
The Walker took home six prizes at the AIGA Minnesota Design Show. Our website and the catalogue for Nathalie Djurberg’s show (now at the New Museum) were among winners. A seventh went to design director Emmet Byrne and Michael Aberman for Postcards from America.
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Occupy & Design
Via designobserver.com
Apr 2012
The “elliptical, poetic and provocative” image on the first Occupy Wall Street poster—a ballerina on the iconic stock market bull—matters less than the hashtag, writes Michael Bierut, who asks: “In the age of social media, does political graphic design matter?”
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Howdy, Neighborland
Via neighborland.com
Apr 2012
Minneapolis and St. Paul just got their own Neighborland sites. The brainchild of Candy Chang, who spoke at the Walker Thursday, it’s a website where citizens can share their wishes, from an art park in the Seward neighborhood to a streetcar linking our cities.
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Dying Languages
Via americancity.org
Apr 2012
A century ago, distinct architectural styles existed worldwide, says Rem Koolhaas. But “almost all of these languages have disappeared, and are subsumed in a larger and seemingly universal style. The process has been like the disappearance of a spoken language.”
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Gestural Seating
Via designboom.com
Apr 2012
Pedro Reyes follows his 2011 Walker exhibition Baby Marx with Rompecabezas, a show in Mexico City that includes his adjustable hand-shaped chairs. “Functional and comfortable, you can use it to communicate to the people you live with,” he says.
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Gentrification Talk
Via bmwguggenheimlab.org
Apr 2012
After protests prompted a move from Berlin’s Kreuzberg to the more upscale Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, the BMW Guggenheim Lab hopes to use its temporary space to embrace the controversy: through discussion on gentrification and housing affordability.
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Governing by Design
Via seedmagazine.com
Apr 2012
From aging to immigration influxes to infrastructure, design can play a major role in governance and democracy, writes MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli. The US, she adds, lags “behind for lack of governmental awareness of design’s potential.”
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In Defense of Watts
Via suebellyank.com
Apr 2012
A former Watts House Project board member challenges an LA Times account of problems with the art project, arguing for a “loving critique” of a “capacity-poor nonprofit with a wildly ambitious mission” instead of a “reductive expose.”
