Tim Burton: The Art of Characters
February 01st, 2010
“I am not complete”, says Edward in Tim Burton’s movie Edward Scissorshands. This quote captures the essence of most of Burton’s chara (Read...)
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Eero Saarinen: The View from a Chair
February 07th, 2010
In the vernacular of furniture, the chair is the apparatus that forms the intimate bond between the individual and the room, as the great architect and designer Eero Saarinen no doubt observed. … (More…)
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“I am not complete”, says Edward in Tim Burton’s movie Edward Scissorshands. This quote captures the essence of most of Burton’s chara (Read...)
The “Chucks” Story: What’s Behind the Converse All Stars
January 25th, 2010
If you don’t own a pair yourself, you probably know someone who does. That probably has something to do with the fact that over 750 million (Read...)
A City of Islands: Reshaping New York’s Shoreline
January 18th, 2010
New York is a city of islands: Manhattan, Roosevelt, Governors and Staten, not to mention Long Island, which is anchored on the west end by Qu (Read...)
Live Art Is Nonsense
January 11th, 2010
Setting up an easel at concerts and inviting people to watch as you paint (or sculpt, or arrange flowers, or whatever art form you do that is (Read...)
Till We Have Voices: The Evolution of Human Communication
January 04th, 2010
Thousands of years ago, in a fertile plain somewhere between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the descendants of an ark builder looked into ea (Read...)
The Ever-Changing List of Must-Have Toys
December 28th, 2009
This year, the hottest toy isn’t a string rag doll like those that ancient Egyptian kids played with or a button-collecting game popular wi (Read...)
Bob Dylan’s Cryptic Designs
December 21st, 2009
In a scene from Martin Scorsese’s film about Bob Dylan, No Direction Home Joan Baez laughs while telling the story of the maste (Read...)
Once Upon a Time When the World Was Occupied by War
December 14th, 2009
If journalism is the first draft of history, then cinema is its editor, patrolling the border of our minds between what is accurate and what i (Read...)
Design Classics: Oldies but Goodies
December 07th, 2009
If you could design a car right now from scratch, that could look any way you wanted, any shape or design, what would it look like? No matter (Read...)
