Concordia Architecture, New Orleans: 2 homes to start building in March
Brad Pitt’s “Make It Right” project of rebuilding houses in the Lower 9th Ward has gotten a lot of press since December, when he announced it, but this is a bandwagon well worth jumping on, so I’ll add another tribute article to the list.
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Whenever I go to China, I make a point to visit a grocery store to see the packaging. I end up buying a lot of it, and it’s almost always actually Japanese brands. It’s just so colorful and fun! James Bowskill has created “Off the Shelf: a Japanese packaging design scrapbook” online so you can [...]

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Gamil worked with Sagmeister team to create a trophy that itself received a design award.

This Vilcek Prize Award trophy was created for a major new award program honoring outstanding achievements of foreign­born Americans within the fields of the visual arts and biomedical research. The first winners are artists Christo and Jeanne­Claude as well as cancer [...]

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As it says on the Nubrella site, “You’ve waited long enough! Someone has finally changed the design!” You know you’ve always hated your umbrella, having to hold it is such a nuisance. And don’t you just die of embarrassment when it turns inside out on you? No more. Now, there’s Nubrella.

Yes! Now I [...]

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As Billy Joel sang Saturday night, “There’s no business like shoe business.” Overall I can’t say that the World Shoe Association seemed like a great show in Vegas. I think MAGIC, a week earlier, would have been a better trip. Luckily the materials show adjacent to it was eye opening. If anything, most of what [...]

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