Philip Johnson’s Glass House Opens

Posted on April 30, 2007

Philip Johnson’s Glass House Opens:

Homepage for the Glass House website designed by Pentagram.

Philip Johnson’s Glass House opens to the public for previews today for the first time. The iconic 1949 house and its 48-acre grounds in New Canaan, Connecticut, were bequeathed to the the National Trust for Historic Preservation upon Johnson’s death in 2005.

Pentagram has designed an identity, promotional graphics, and a simple website for the project. A visitors center, also by Pentagram, will be ready in time for the site’s official opening on June 23.

(Via Pentagram.)

Matthew Perryman Jones

Posted on April 26, 2007

check out this album: throwing punches in the dark
this guy is an amazing songwriter, and not too bad of a musician either, i cannot stop listening to this album, it grows on me more everytime.

buy it here: iTunes

You can check out some of his music at: MPJ Music

Richard Meier

Posted on April 26, 2007

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Noah’s Ark

Posted on April 26, 2007

Giving Life to Found Objects, Two by Two

J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times

A new exhibition space at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles is really a children’s museum that takes the form of Noah’s Ark.

Design In The Real World

Posted on April 24, 2007

Design In The Real World:In what can only be described as the ultimate design student project, a group of real design students have made an episodic documentary based on real events surrounding their first paying gig. Episodic Nature of Thought is made up of 21 brief episodes and features cameos by Stefan Sagmeister, James Victore and Paul Sahre. (Warning: If you watch more than three, you’ll get sucked in and lose half the morning.)

(Via How magazine.)

Practical Tips For Sustainable Design

Posted on April 24, 2007

Practical Tips For Sustainable Design: Designer Jessica Sand of RoughstockStudios, who blogs about green design at SmallFailures, recently launched a new column on Businessof Design Online called TheSustainable Studio. Check both blogs for practical tips about to work in more sustainable ways as a designer.

(Via How magazine.)

Mountains of the Mind in Chinese Art

Posted on April 19, 2007

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times “Spring Festival Along the River” by Hong Hao at the Metropolitan Museum.

Outward bound and inward bound are the yin and yang of Chinese landscape painting. Movement is the modus operandi in an art that takes us hiking up mountains and cruising down streams, but always in a spirit of rumination. This is action painting as thinking. read more…

new faucet.

Posted on April 19, 2007

Di.Ta by Ritmonio

A digital tap based on the Bianconiglio technology, using its extreme freedom in composition and proposing conceptually and formally innovative solutions.

COLOURlovers

Posted on April 17, 2007

This is a great colour website.  There are new combinations and palettes posted everyday.

COLOURlovers

via their website, it’s a “is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color – whether for ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification – a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.

Space Redefined in Chelsea

Posted on April 13, 2007

Space Redefined in Chelsea

A sampling of current shows in Chelsea’s big-box galleries offers a map to some of the ways artists use space in, and also around, art these days.

Robert McKeever/Gagosian Gallery

Walter De Maria’s “13, 15, 15 Meter Rows,” at Gagosian

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