John Baldessari, a California artist, has carpeted the floors of LACMA with images of white clouds against a blue sky and wallpapered the ceiling with Los Angeles freeways for 'Magritte and Contemporary Art' exhibition. HT View full entry
The Architectural Standards of Public Space: intimate distance (6 to 18 inches); personal distance (18 inches to 4 feet); social distance (4 to 12 feet); and public distance (about 12 feet or more) ... NYTimes View full entry
Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig discusses the most cutting edge use of the new Developing Nations License to date. (via Worldchanging) View full entry
Nobel Prize winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who fought the good fight under Stalin will finally have a place on the library shelf in Russia next to his nemesis. MosNews View full entry
Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain have created Utopia, a new font that replaces letters with buildings, inspired by the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer. View full entry
Olafur Eliasson got his hands on some legos in Oslo. Thanks Tor! View full entry
It's like Pecha Kucha but... not? 10 people, 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide. Also: Robots dismantling the GSD. Thur. 16th. 6pm. Piper Auditorium @ GSD. | Link View full entry
Tacita Dean , a British artist best known for her contemplative, 16-millimeter films, has won this year's Hugo Boss prize. Bloomberg l via View full entry
Actor, director, writer--Orson Welles gives a good show, especially when he's confronted with grammatical errors doing a voice over for peas... 356 Project View full entry
Nourison donates rugs for the AFH Gulf Coast Model Home Program. View full entry
For Veterans Day, the NYT Op-Ed page asked eight designers to rethink those pro-United States symbols and come up with something fresh.nyt, designs. View full entry
24 hours on a CNC router, some luscious Richlite, and the provocations of an awesome graphic designer: what do you get? Find out tomorrow (Saturday night 6pm) at the opening in Brooklyn. | link View full entry
The Contemporary Art Galleries at University of Connecticut presents Text Formed Drawing, on view through December 13, 2006. "The words found in Text Formed Drawing are never just tacked on captions, but rather they shape one's aesthetic experience". Artdaily View full entry
If you think a 300$ ticket at Hollywood Bowl to see a legendary rock band, The ”˜tommy can you see me' Who, comes with a free Patina's andante dinner and a picture taken with the band members, you are off, or you are not financially half way successful, or simply not a Who believer... View full entry
The Chinese shopping appetite is so big that some luxury retailers limit the number of items any one shopper can purchase. It is not uncommon for Chinese tourists to ask shoppers outside the stores for help buying designer handbags or clothes in order to circumvent the quota. NYT View full entry