This exhibition explores the common visual and intellectual principles that underlie both fashion and architecture. MOCA SKIN + BONES: PARALLEL PRACTICES IN FASHION AND ARCHITECTURE 11.19.06 - 03.05.07 This exhibition explores the common visual and intellectual principles that underlie both... View full entry
The Citizendium, a "citizens' compendium of everything," will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance.link View full entry
Audrey 'Funny Face' Hepburn has been reincarnated as the latest muse for Gap, wearing her famous black turtleneck and skinny black pant. Guardian and Daily Star View full entry
In Trafalgar Square, London. Dixon displayed his expanded polystyrene chairs, and today there were huge queues of people trying to get one of them for free. BBC View full entry
An in-depth look at the man behind Apple's design magic. BusinessWeek View full entry
A collection of articles and commentaries on the famed New York Fashion Week from The New York Times. View full entry
Technically this is $1,100, but in so many ways it is priceless. Here fishy fishy... View full entry
Bill Stumpf, one of Herman Miller's most gifted design partners and a pioneering figure in ergonomic seating, died Wednesday, August 30, 2006, of complications stemming from abdominal surgery. He was born March 1, 1936, in St. Louis. Herman Miller news | Via Dezain View full entry
If the modern skyline is a reflection of male vanity, then of course it's good for the pores. nytimes View full entry
John Maeda launches laws of simplicity, a parallel blog to his book of the same title. View full entry
Edward Tufte's newest book on information graphics is filled with hundreds of illustrations from art & science -- and sums the aesthetics of evidence with a quote from British typographer Eric Gill: "If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself." NPR interview + Tufte's... View full entry
Nikki Frazier, Sam Kragiel, Jesse James Arnold make up the Brooklyn-based group Brave Space Design... Outside of gaming circles, the Brooklyn design trio is probably best known for producing gorgeous, modern, environmentally-friendly furniture using FSC woods, bamboo and water-based finishes. Read View full entry
FEMA provided more than 118,000 trailers to victims of Hurricane Katrina and Rita -- primarily in Mississippi and Louisiana -- who lost their homes in the storm. Complaints of health issues living in the trailers have been pouring in. Time to conduct air quality tests on the trailers, which are... View full entry
A Web site that made a splash among consumers by helping them bypass companies' automated phone systems is now leading an effort from the corporate side to ease the problem -- and with some heavy-hitting backing. aol, gethuman View full entry
Tattoos have become a fad among many young Iranian women who proudly display them in private but must keep them under wraps from authorities. TRIB View full entry
