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Quote of Note | Marc Newson
The Azzedine Alaia boutique in Paris.
“It’s one of my little marble fantasies. I started used marble a lot in 2005, 2006–in fact, Azzedine’s shop was one of the first things I did. At the time, no one was really using marble in a contemporary way. Marble was considered a really old-fashioned material. I’d picked up a little bit of experience over the years from going to Ferrara in Italy where they carve a lot of marble. People are always looking for new materials and new technology, like brand new high-tech things, but they don’t really exist. All of the materials that we think of as new materials have actually been around for at least ten or fifteen years. Doing something new is really about re-appropriating something, using a new material in a different context. As a designer you can only really do that if you work in different disciplines. That’s why I like doing all these different things and learning about different things. I designed a range of luggage for Samsonite ages ago, and the technology I used was something I had learned from designing trainers for Nike.”
-Marc Newson, interviewed by Jonathan Ive in i-D magazine
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123D Creature from Autodesk for iPad
Check out this awesome new iPad app listed for just $2.00 called 123D Creature. It allows you to model 3D characters on the iPad and paint them too. You can even get the final sculpture printed on a 3D printer.
Wanted: Graphics Pro Who Can Perform
The world’s leading performing arts center—that would be Lincoln Center— recently celebrated its 50th anniversary [cymbal flourish]. Some say that such a milestone calls for a gift of gold, but it’s actually a graphics maestro. That’s right, design fans, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, one of 12 organizations resident in the Lincoln Center complex (how many of the other 11 can you name?), is on the hunt for a graphic designer to “develop and create communications and advertising that promote Lincoln Center’s programmatic offerings and services and express the Lincoln Center brand.” Bring your portfolio of dazzling typography, design, and branding work but leave your stage fright at home.
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What Would Warhol Do…with 3D Printing?
We suspect it would involve desserts, skulls, or a delicious combination of the two, but the call is yours in a new contest from Materialise. The Belgian 3D printing (a.k.a. additive manufacturing) giant is challenging everyone and anyone to “design what you think Andy Warhol would have produced with 3D printing technology if he were alive today.” Five semifinalists will get their fifteen minutes of fame this June in Pittsburgh, as the Society of Manufacturing Engineers kicks off its 2013 RAPID prototyping fair with a bash at the Warhol Museum, where Murray Moss (who is among the contest judges) is cooking up a 3D-printed installation. The semifinalists’ designs will be 3D printed by Materialise and displayed at the museum during the event, when the grand prize winner will be announced–and will take home the 3D-printed version of his or her design. Fire up your “originality, inventiveness, and creativity” (the judging criteria), start thinking in paintable resin, and whip up something Warholian by March 15. Click here for complete contest details.
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The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop
Now well into its third decade of existence, Photoshop does indeed seem to incarnate Darwin's theory of evolutionary adaptation by natural selection, as put forward in On the Origin of the Species. And while Photoshop's rise to dominence has been inexorable one has to sometimes wonder — is it in our best interests that there is no viable alternative? It's something to ponder while scrolling through this nicely-done Photoshop timeline.
Watch This: Remembering Bill Moggridge
Friends, colleagues, family members, and fans of Bill Moggridge gathered recently in New York City to remember and celebrate the life of the pioneering yet playful designer, teacher, and Cooper-Hewitt director, who died last fall at the age of 69. After a moving introduction by acting director Caroline Baumann (the museum committee tasked with selecting a worthy successor to Moggridge need not look further than his longtime deputy), Smithsonian secretary Wayne Clough took to the podium, describing the man of the evening as “a perpetual pin to deflate our pomposity” and marveling at Moggridge’s take on dressing up: “He could pull off wearing a t-shirt, and I never could.”
A video tribute created by one of his two sons was followed by a discussion with Bill Buxton, David Kelley, Bruce Nussbaum, Ellen Lupton, and moderator Helen Walters. “He really knew what the future was going to bring,” said Kelley, who joined up with Moggridge and Mike Nuttall in 1991 to form IDEO and credited Moggridge with instilling an enduring openness in the global design consultancy. “He was just this kind of teacher person,” added Kelley. “I never had an interaction with him where I didn’t feel better afterwards.” Enjoy more Moggridge memories in the below video of the event.
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Adobe Releases Photoshop Source Code
You may recall that Adobe recently posted download links to the entire Creative Suite 2, complete with license numbers, and then was shocked, shocked I tell you, when people mistakenly interpreted that as a gesture on the firm's part to make old, commercially unviable versions of their apps available for free download. You'd think Adobe would like that little incident swept under the rug. But here they go again, this time releasing the code for the mythic version 1 of Photoshop for download on the Computer History Museum site. So if you have a 20 year old Mac lying around, and can compile the code, a rare trip down graphical memory lane awaits you. Failing that, the screen shots below are evocative of the early days of digital graphics. Yikes, are we really that old?
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Mark Your Calendar: Aftertaste at Parsons
Parsons’ reliably outstanding and thought-provoking Aftertaste symposium returns next weekend with a focus on objects. Aftertaste: The Atmosphere of Objects will “address interior experience through close examination of the way objects inform inhabitation, influence perception, and create social dynamics.” Things get underway next Friday evening as Mia Lundström, creative director of Home Furnishings at IKEA, sits down for a chat with interlocutor extraordinaire Susan Szenasy, editor-in-chief of Metropolis. Their discussion of possessions and personal statements (in which we hope to gain insight into what our growing mound of Alexander Girard-patterned pillows says about us) will be followed by design writer Akiko Busch on “The Language of Things.” Other panelists and featured speakers include frog’s Jonas Damon, expert collector Fritz Karch, David Mann of MR Architecture + Decor, and T design editor Pilar Viladas. Check out the full agenda and RSVP (admission is free) here.
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In Brief: New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual
VSCO Film 03 Released for Adobe Camera RAW Instant Film Emulation
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Hello, Dahl-Wolfe! Will Cotton’s Sweet Shot for New York Channels Classic Bazaar Cover
Step away from that heart-shaped Whitman’s Sampler or sumptuous cache of Vosges truffles, proceed to the nearest newsstand, and purchase a good-old fashioned tangible copy of New York magazine. There are gems aplenty in this Spring Fashion Issue–expertly deployed Avant-Garde (“The world’s most abused typeface,” per a colleague of its designer, Herb Lubalin) that fits the mod moment decreed by Marc Jacobs in spring 2013 collections for his own label and Louis Vuitton, William Van Meter‘s profile of the glittery/grungy Olivier Zahm (pull quote: “I’m from another kind of gender called the artist. It needs a special bathroom”), charming trend directives such as “A Single Ruffle Adds Fluffle”–but the creamy filling is “Candy Land,” a visual feast of a portfolio lensed by Will Cotton.
The creator of painterly confections has taken up his camera to capture sartorial prodigy Elle Fanning frolicing amidst frosting, candy, and sprinkles, the latter doubling as bright blue eyeshadow inspired by the Dior runway. To discover those sweet treats, of course, you’ll have to tear your gaze away from the cover, in which we think Fanning’s cake topper chapeau winks sweetly at the April 1958 cover of Harper’s Bazaar, photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe and masterminded by then fashion editor Diana Vreeland.
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Quote of Note | Deyan Sudjic
“Ettore Sottsass’s Valentine typewriter, designed in 1969, was made in tens of thousands at the Olivetti factory in Barcelona. What makes it fascinating is that it was the first time a company that specialized in making office equipment tried to turn the kind of machine that signalled work into something that looked playful. Or, as Sottsass put it, the kind of thing that might keep poets company on lonely Sundays in the country.
Sottsass made the Valentine bright red and used moulded plastic for the shell. The two ribbon spools were bright orange. According to Perry King, Sottsass’s British assistant on the project, the spools were meant to suggest the flashing of a pair of nipples. Less sexist, the carrying case was designed to be as stylish as the machine itself and could, at a push, be turned into a makeshift stool. But the marketing department at Olivetti vetoed Sottsass’s other idea: that it should only have upper case letters so as to simplify the mechanism and lower the price. The company saw itself as radical but not that radical.”
-Deyan Sudjic, director of London’s Design Museum, in the Financial Times
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Look: Valentine E-Cards for Architecture Lovers
Architecture for Humanity understands that for design lovers, a good greeting card (among other things) is hard to find. And so the nonprofit is kicking off its annual “I Love Architecture” campaign with a selection of e-Valentines that allow senders to simultaneously declare their love for the recipient and one of eight iconic structures, from the Taj Mahal and the Eiffel Tower to Herzog & de Meuron‘s Beijing Bird’s Nest and the Castelvecchio Museum, renovated by Carlo Scarpa. The buildings were selected because they are emblematic of architecture’s unique “merging together of learned skills and individual practice,” according to Architecture for Humanity co-founder Cameron Sinclair. Got a special someone who you love even more than Louis Kahn‘s National Parliament of Bangladesh? Click here to select a card that you can share online or download and e-mail with a custom message.
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President Touts 3-D Printing, Manufacturing Hubs in State of the Union Address
Rare is the design angle on a presidential address, but last night’s State of the Union included a shout-out to 3D prototyping. Early in the speech President Obama highlighted recent gains in domestic manufacturing jobs–more than 500,000 have been added in the past three years–offering examples of in-sourcing in progress at Caterpillar, Ford, and a little company in Cupertino. “This year, Apple will start making Macs in America again,” he said [cut to shot of a grinning Tim Cook] before turning to his administration’s manufacturing preservation initiative:
Last year, we created our first manufacturing innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio. A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the art lab where new workers are mastering the 3-D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything. There’s no reason this can’t happen in other towns. So tonight, I’m announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, where businesses will partner with the Departments of Defense and Energy to turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs. And I ask this Congress to help create a network of 15 of these hubs and guarantee that the next revolution in manufacturing is made right here in America. We can get that done.
To which approximately half of the audience responded, “Yes we can!”
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Cubes: VIP Tour of Ogilvy Public Relations
Ogilvy Public Relations graciously opened its doors to the MediabistroTV crew, letting the team run wild through the red and white themed former chocolate factory that’s been renovated to house all of the Ogilvy properties.
Kimberly Ryan played host in showing off the clean open concept space where Ogilvy Public Relations staffers do their relating with the public under the watchful thoughts of founder David Ogilvy who reminds everyone to “Tolerate Genius.”
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Blade Runner Meets Photoshop
At least, that was my first thought on watching this clip demonstrating voice-controlled image editing. We're barely into the era of touch but it's a safe bet that voice will be the next "big thing" in interface innovation. The example here shows off PixelTone, an experimental effort created by Adobe Research and the University of Michigan that combines voice and touch.
