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“I read the sports section very, very avidly. It’s one of the few places left where you find human interest. It’s very narrative, not to say novelistic, to follow sports teams and sports in play. Fashion is a bit like that, because the personnel set is not that changeable. It’s one of the weirdest and most contradictory things about fashion. It’s based on novelty, but in many ways very little is new. It’s such a stable population. All the editors have been the same forever. All the designers have been more or less the same forever. The only thing that changed was when Anna Wintour saw that nobody was developing a farm team, and got in gear. Because everybody was aging out and there was nobody to replace them. Because she’s a great HR person, she literally made it her business to make another generation to cultivate and anoint.”

-Guy Trebay of The New York Times, interviewed by Jay Ruttenberg in Fashion Projects

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Neither snow nor rain nor a ferocious hurricane (nor Saturdays) can keep Pictoplasma from New York City. Postponed in the wake of Sandy, the character design conference returns to Gotham on Friday for Pictoplasma NYC at Parsons The New School for Design. Organized by Pictoplasma “brain-fathers” Lars Denicke and Peter Thaler with Parsons Illustration chair Steven Guarnaccia, the two-day confab will celebrate contemporary character visualization–illustration, animation, installation, street art, fine art, and more–with lectures, panel discussions, and screenings. Kicking off the proceedings will be lectures by newly Brooklyn-based Buff Monster and toy designer/fiber artist Anna Hrachovec, followed by insights from Argentinean animator and graphic designer Adrian Sonni and self-proclaimed plastic surgeon Jason Freeny. Stick around for Characters in Motion screenings and a Saturday morning “Parson’s Pitch” pecha kucha. New to Pictoplasma? Watch clips from previous talks here.

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Thomas Heatherwick’s London bus, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, and the Pentax Q10 are among the winners of the Travel + Leisure 2013 Design Awards.

Before planning your next trip, be sure to review the newly crowned winners of the Travel + Leisure Design Awards, which will be featured in the magazine’s March issue. The winners, announced today, range from Schneider & Schumacher’s souped-up Städel (Best Museum) and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park first imagined in the early 1970s by Louis Kahn (Best Public Space) to Weimar-era glam Pauly-Saal in Berlin (Best Restaurant) and Götti Switzerland sunglasses that fold flat (Best Travel Accessory). Many of this year’s favorites will come as no surprise, including Thomas Heatherwick‘s diesel-hybrid London bus (Best Transporation) and the Microsoft Surface (Best Tablet). Meanwhile, 2013 T+L Design Champion Rolf Fehlbaum, the literal and figurative chairman of Vitra, joins past honorees such as ubercollector Micky Wolfson, André Balazs, and Amanda Burden. Tasked with choosing “the best new examples of design” in 22 categories was a jury moderated by Chee Pearlman that included interior designer Alexandra Champalimaud, creative director Stephen Doyle, and architect Deborah Berke. Keep reading for the full list of winners.
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Joining the league as an expansion team in 1995, the Jacksonville Jaguars play in the South Division of the American Football Conference in the NFL. The team has done well over the last seventeen years, winning two division championships and making six playoff appearances. Yesterday, the Florida-based team announced a new identity to replace the one they've playing with since the beginning. Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

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This week, MSNBC.com is hiring an art director, while HarperCollins needs a senior designer. BeautySage.com is seeking a graphic designer, and Sandow Media is on the hunt for an editorial graphic designer. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro.

Art Director MSNBC.com (New York, NY) Senior Designer HarperCollins (New York, NY) Graphic Designer BeautySage.com (New York, NY) Editorial Graphic Designer Sandow Media (New York, NY) Senior Designer McKinsey & Company (Waltham, MA)

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Frederic Goudy had one, so did Philip Johnson and Robert Rauschenberg. The Eameses had two. Pentagram is awash in them. George Lois wears his to bed. We’re talking about AIGA Medals, the graphic design world’s highest honor. Allow us to be the first to tell you this year’s banner crop of medalists: John Bielenberg, William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, Stefan Sagmeister, Lucille Tenazas, and Wolfgang Weingart. Read on for AIGA’s citations of each design star, who will be presented with their James Earle Fraser-designed medals on April 19 at the AIGA Awards in New York.
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Entering the market this week is the newly Food-and-Drug-Administration-approved Alipazone — brand name: Ablixa — an antidepressant drug of the "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class" that has been produced to treat major depression, and is prescribed off-label for other conditions. The logo, packaging, and advertising have been designed by Pentagram partner Emily Oberman. Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

New York’s Grand Central Station is an ideal spot for a flash mob–remember when Moncler Grenoble’s stone-faced model-dancers took to the floor in Carlo Mollino-inspired skiwear? As part of the big 100th birthday bash, the insta-happening experts at Improv Everywhere recruited 135 LED-flashlight-wielding performers to light up Grand Central’s grand windows, mesmerizing passersby. The impressively choreographed affair, a project cooked up with MTA Arts for Transit, was something of a homecoming for Improv Everywhere, which in 2007 staged “Frozen Grand Central,” a flash freeze that has racked up 32 million views on YouTube. Watch both successful “missions” below.

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Ready to unleash the next Angry Birds on the mobile-gizmo-obsessed world but need some help with logistics (i.e., cash)? Check out the Kongregate Mobile Developers program, a $10 million fund for independent developers of free-to-play mobile games. Launched yesterday by the online gaming platform Kongregate and backed by its parent company GameStop, the initiative will offer developers not only capital but also help with distribution and marketing to help their games to gain traction in the highly competitive mobile arena. Taking charge of the new fund will be Urbansquall and Zynga veteran Pany Haritatos, the freshly hired vice president of Konregate’s new mobile division. “Developers are increasingly finding it harder to get their games discovered through the different app stores,” said Haritatos in a statement issued yesterday. “I personally faced these challenges in 2009 while managing my own game studio. Utilizing the Kongregate platform made my games successful, which ultimately led to my studio being acquired by Zynga.” Learn more here.

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Book, high-resolution PDF, and online access are now available for the 2011-12 FPO Awards, celebrating the best print projects from around the world. The book features a sandpaper varnish on the cover that is great for scratching. PS. High resolution PDFs are also now available for the 2011 Brand New Awards. After choosing to forego that option many of you asked about it, so we are bringing it back. Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is continuing its multimedia push with 82nd & Fifth, a new web series that will highlight 100 works of art from the Met collection. Produced by the digital media department in collaboration with the photograph studio and curatorial staff, each episode includes “Watch,” a two-minute audio and visual essay with a curator and a work of art from the Met collection that changed the way he or she sees the world; and “Explore,” an interactive feature that invites visitors to get closer to the work of art on their own. Among the first episodes is “Modern Living,” in which Amelia Peck, the Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Decorative Arts, discusses the living room of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Little House. Watch the first six episodes of 82nd & Fifth here, and then watch for new episodes to be posted in pairs every Wednesday for the rest of the year.

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The bubbly furniture fans at Design Within Reach have selected the winners in their champagne chair contest, which last month challenged all comers to create an original miniature chair using only the foil, label, cage, and cork from no more than two champagne bottles (glue was the only permitted adhesive). Taking top honors is the “Rockin’ Chaise” (pictured at far left) designed by one Miwa F., who went meta by including a wee champagne holder. Runner-up Jeffery Molter took a systematic approach with a chair that folds up into its own carrying case. And third place goes to Aaron Padilla’s foil basketweave “F8 Chaise,” with a sculpted cork underseat. Pour yourself a glass of bubbly and then click here to see all 319 champagne chair contest entries.

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No big projects to start off the week, so we'll turn to Brazil to get Monday started and perhaps continue with a few simple, logo-only reviews this week. Established in 2009 with the merger of Perdigão (est. 1934) and Sadia (est. 1944), BRF (originally BRF Brasil Foods) is one of the world's largest food companies managing some of the most popular consumer product brands in Brazil like the previously eponymous Perdigao and Sadia, and Batavo, Elege, and Qualy. BRF operates over 50 production facilities and distribution centers and employs more than 115,000 people. This past January they introduced a Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

New York’s Grand Central Terminal turns 100 this month, kicking off a year of tributes to the beloved “cathedral of transit” that escaped demolition in the 1970s by way of a legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court. Sam Roberts offers a historical and cultural perspective in Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America, newly published by–of course!–Hachette’s Grand Central imprint. Centennial souvenirs can be found at the post office, where the USPS is now offering its Grand Central Terminal Express Mail stamp, featuring Illinois artist Dan Cosgrove‘s illustrated update (note the man with the roller suitcase) to Hal Morey‘s famous sunlight-streaming-through-the-clerestory-windows photo of the 1930s. The top of the stamp art includes the edges of the terminal’s famous sky ceiling, painted with a mural of constellations and figures of the Zodiac (fun fact: the constellations were accidentally painted backwards on the ceiling, so don’t rely on them for celestial navigation). And mark your calendar for March 25-31, when Nick Cave brings dancing horses to Grand Central. The artist will trot out an equine twist on his Soundsuits in a project co-presented by Creative Time and MTA Arts for Transit.

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