September 2011
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The Search for the Perfect Fork
Have you ever fallen in love with a fork? I did, on a recent Friday at Brooklyn pie mecca Four & Twenty Blackbirds. The fork in question had four long, evenly spaced tines, a slim stem that rested lightly on my fingers, and a tapered end that came to a petal–like point. On the stem, more abstracted petals, with tiny berries or buds peeking out between them. It was feminine without...
August 2011
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Announcing letsgetcritical.org
In April I wrote, in a Design Observer post on two funny, pointed reviews of recent design shows,
Fodder for my perhaps-never-to-happen shortform blog, Let’s Get Critical. Let’s Get Critical would pick choice reviews from the wide world of culture, so you (if you were like me) would always have a place to go when you needed to read something (constructively, eloquently) ...
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markcoatney:
talesfromzonea:
A crucial part of...
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“What do Silly Putty, Superman and Marilyn Monroe have to do with architecture?...”
– “Why’s This So Good?” No. 9: Herbert Muschamp builds a metaphor – Alexandra Lange - Nieman Storyboard
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Swamp Dreams →
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On “American Dream,” a mall under construction in New Jersey that will be the largest on Earth and feature an indoor skiing slope, a tropical area modeled on Hawaii, and a “TV screen that will make Times Square seem like a rec room from the seventies.”
Robert Sullivan | New York | Aug 2011
Well, at least it is not boring.
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Architects in the Swing
Designed by the Amsterdam-based studio Kaptein Roodnat, the “buis” is a chartreuse tube that snakes its way through the entire schoolyard and one room of Ypenburg’s elementary school, De Paradijsvogel. Several hundred metres long, the tube folds and curls into monkey bars, slides, steps, loops, benches, a basketball hoop, two soccer goals, and, eventually, into the base of a stage and its...
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Reverting to Type
Vintage Olivetti Lettera 22 postcard (via retrotechgeneva,blogspot.com)
The contemporary affection for typewriters may be a passing fancy, but it isn’t necessarily fancy. One reputed advantage of the typewriter is its simplicity. I have always been attracted to objects, like the strawberry huller, that can only do one thing. A typewriter cannot cannot find information, take photographs,...
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Reading in Public
Four enterprising 2011 graduates of D-Crit have started a design communications consultancy called Superscript, and have decided to launch in a both public and critical way: with the Architecture and Design Book Club (ADBC). It meets next Thursday, August 18 at 6:30 p.m. on the High Line, where they’ve asked me to guest host the first edition on William H. Whyte’s classic 1980...
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The Atlantic: What People Don't Understand About... →
theatlantic:
theworldkeepsgoinground writes:
It’s 95 degrees and the humidity is 80%. People don’t understand that. People see a man with a shovel in his hand working on a job site and think he’s lazy because he’s just standing there. What they don’t see is the struggle going on inside your brain. The…
Enjoying this series. From the guilty comfort of my climate controlled home office.
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