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Timeless design partnership of Charles and Ray Eames Valentines Vintage View:  We celebrate the romance and creative expressions of the renowned design duo  Charles and Ray Eames in the 1970s. Picture: vitra.com Sun, 14 Feb, 2021 - 09:00 Kya deLongchamps Bobbing on a battered aluminium group chair that collides rudely with this knee-hole desk, I’m heady just writing about the romance and creative expressions of Charles and Ray Eames. As my teen puts it while perusing a photograph of the pa...

February 12, 2021 Design collective Creative Union recasts a decades-old structure as a minimalist pied-a-terre for a graphic designer. In some ways, this little shack in the Beaconsfield Village neighborhood hasn’t changed much at all since it was erected 100-plus years ago. Though the white exterior has faded with time, the original wood paneling, A-frame outline, and hay-bale window remain. But inside its barn-board facade, architect Timothy Mitanidis of Creative Union has created somethin...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Many people might not be excited to have two large ceramic dogs...

Dome, sweet dome: Family returns artifacts Marilyn Halstead The Southern Illinoisan Feb. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Thad Heckman carries two of the original chairs from the Buckminster Fuller Dome Home in Carbondale. The Fuller family donated furniture and artifacts from the home, along with nearly 3,500 of Fuller’s books, as part of the ongoing restoration and preservation of the iconic home.Byron Hetzler | Southern Illinoisan (AP) CARBONDALE (AP) — Many people might not be excited to h...

Many people might not be excited to have two large ceramic dogs arrive at their home, but for the members of the R. Buckminster Fuller Dome Not-For-Profit, the dogs —

The Treachery of Images: Design’s Toxic Assets, and the Foundations of a New Future Processing (,.,.,.,.,.,.,) is a You may also listen to this piece in audio form, read by the author: Unbridled Capitalism (for most) is an abstraction. From the inside it’s hard to see edges—places where it does not exist. In this time when everything being for sale is normal—including the delivery of your purchases to your front door, car or screen—there is healthy competition to serve our best and w...

The original SF Exploratorium like youve never seen it before FacebookTwitterEmail A scene from the 1974 film "Exploratorium."Jon Boorstin In the 1974 Academy Award-nominated documentary “Exploratorium,” the camera zooms in on a hypnotic spiraling “Depth Spinner,” an exhibit designed to show how the eye and brain process motion (and make you a little dizzy in the process). “Look at the center, just keep looking at the center of it,” commands a woman’s voice off-screen. A man respo...

An online exhibition of select works was organised to commemorate Dashrath Patel’s 10th death anniversary this year Dashrath Patel, among modern India’s most versatile yet lesser known artists, made memorable contributions to painting, photography, ceramics and design — a body of work that is today coming in for a serious relook. On his 10th anniversary this year, an online exhibition was organised, showcasing a selection from his large range of works and giving a glimpse of Patel’s imm...

The Best Graphic Design of the Year: Announcing the Winners of the PRINT Awards In 2020, after being independently acquired by a group of the industry’s best design minds, PRINT launched its first significant website redesign in a decade, and returned to the design scene to provide more inspiration, design thinking in action, thoughtful longreads, and eye candy galore than ever before. We also took stock of our signature annual competition—the Regional Design Awards—and decided it was ti...

Ford Places Its Future Bet on a Renewed Detroit Dec 15, 2020 During the post-World War II era, U.S. automakers achieved far more than transforming the country’s transport systems and infrastructure (for better or worse). Companies like General Motors and Ford also had an impact on American architecture that reached its zenith during the 1950s and 1960s. Designers including Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames left their mark on Detroit and much of Michigan, whether it was at the massive GM campus...