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Urbanism Made to Like
Via popupcity.net
Jan 2012
Urban swings, trashcan basketball, and subway-stair slides are part of a trend Joop de Boer predicts for 2012: urban interventions that realize playful ideas within urban environments.
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Passings: Eva Zeisel
Via washingtonpost.com
Jan 2012
Modernist ceramics designer Eva Zeisel has died at age 105. Although her work is in the MoMA collection, she said her work isn’t art: “Art has more ego to it than what I do.”
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Poster Agenda
Via graphicmag.kr
Dec 2011
For its year-end issue, Graphic asked 22 designers—including Anthony Burrill, Experimental Jetset, Metahaven, and Minneapolis’ Alex DeArmond—to create posters expressing their own social “agenda.”
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Homeless Signs
Via homelesssigns.org
Dec 2011
Aiming to resensitize citizens to the plight of the poor, the Homeless Signs Project has been giving large laminated placards to panhandlers. They’re set in Helvetica: “Such a pronounced disparity makes the signs—and the people holding them—impossible to ignore.”
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Penguin Evolution
Via logodesignlove.com
Dec 2011
Designed in 1935 by Edward Young—who went to the zoo to sketch various poses—Penguin Books’ iconic logo was modified in 1946 by typographer Jan Tschichold, who retained some of the “dignified but flippant” feel of the original.
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Edible Architecture
Via artinfo.com
Dec 2011
A rundown of architecture-inspired desserts, from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in gingerbread and a Buckmister Fuller-esque geodesic cookie house to a poured sugar and fondant Noguchi table.
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Architectural Creche
Via slate.com
Dec 2011
Architect and writer Witold Rybczynski recounts how for Christmas in 1964 he built a “modern” nativity scene—inspired by Le Corbusier’s Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France.
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Black Metal Pop
Via markhall-patch.ca
Dec 2011
If the Walker’s black-metal logo designed by Christophe Szpajdel, whose work is on view in Graphic Design: Now In Production, isn’t incongruous enough, check out Mark Hall-Patch’s metal remakes of pop star names like Bieber, Gaga and Hanson.

