 |
 |  | Off the Grid By Mason Currey A New Yorker’s minimalist landscape paintings draw on elemental forms of the built environment. |  |
|  |
 |  | Model Citizens By Cathryn Drake A pair of Dutch artists aims to empower a Cairo community with a fantastically detailed miniature replica. |  |
|  |
 |  | A Dose of Reality By Mason Currey A young photographer explores the view from the hospital bed. |  |
|  |
 |  | Paper Tigers By Mason Currey A couple of accidental wallpaper designers try not to repeat themselves. |  |
|  |
 |  | Trickle-down Architecture By Mason Currey New York’s tiny Gage/Clemenceau Architects put their fanciful competition ideas to work in built projects. |  |
|  |
 |  | Product Placement By Erich Nagler A design duo produces two lines of goods, one specific to Finland and the other to South Korea. |  |
|  |
 |  | Beyond the Wall By Stephen Zacks A young architect finds promise in the concrete barriers that divide Israel and Palestine. |  |
|  |
 |  | Fantastic Duo By David Sokol Two young architects in a red camper take on Norway’s architectural ills. |  |
|  |
 |  | Characters Welcome By Erich Nagler A fellowship invites photographers to document New York and its denizens. |  |
|  |
 |  | Poster Boy By Criswell Lappin A young San Franciscan’s pitch-perfect designs originate from his love of music. |  |
|  |
 |  | Fading Light By Paul Makovsky A Dutch photographer captures a vanishing way of life. |  |
|  |
 |  | Craft Bombing By Nancy Nowacek Knitters practice urban beautification by taking their needles to the streets. |  |
|  |
 |  | Between the Blinds By Criswell Lappin A Brooklyn-based Cuban-born photographer looks at the city through its screens. |  |
|  |
 |  | A Piecemeal Pursuit By Jade Chang Rowena Dring renders large-scale landscapes one stitch at a time. |  |
|  |
 |  | A Fellowship in Rome By Kristi Cameron Three Rome Prize winners explore their crafts in the city as an ensemble. |  |
|  |
 |  | The Life Botanic By Kristi Cameron Chris Garofalo’s transition from graphic designer to ceramist was evolutionary. |  |
|  |
 |  | Objets d’Art By Kristi Cameron Kevin Landers makes art from the everyday. |  |
|  |
 |  | The Sight of Music By Laurie Manfra Andrew Prinz and Robert Pietrusko’s Brooklyn-based Simultaneous Workshop mixes music and design. |  |
|  |
 |  | Contour Lighting By Kristi Cameron Brooklyn-based Lite Brite Neon Studio playfully subverts the
perception that neon is tacky. |  |
|  |
 |  | Domestic Progress By Andrew Yang The competitors and winner of this year’s Electrolux Design Laboratory. |  |
|  |
 |  | Practical Matters By Kristi Cameron The Design Academy Eindhoven’s annual graduation show in October is so popular that it spawned Eindhoven Design Week. |  |
|  |
 |  | Up Against the Wall By Karen E. Steen Barcelona’s Maxalot gallery displays wallpaper created by graphic designers. |  |
|  |
 |  | Poster Children By Karen E. Steen Montreal-based poster-design firm Seripop is coming soon to a wall near you. |  |
|  |
 |  | Jest Pilots By Ken Coupland Feel good always with Feel Good Anyway. |  |
|  |
 |  | Architecture by Thurlow Small Atelier By Karen E. Steen Architects Andrew Thurlow and Maia Small want houses to be built the way car prototypes are, with milling machines and 3-D printers. |  |
|  |
 |  | Scrap Book: Collages by Charles Wilkin By Karen E. Steen Ten years ago graphic designer Charles Wilkin began making collages from found photographs, pages out of old catalogs and magazines, and random scraps of text. |  |
|  |
 |  | China’s Fast Track: Photographs by Tony Law By Karen E. Steen Last year 24-year-old photographer Tony Law won a Fulbright grant to document the modernization of China. Law captured signs of development in four of China’s biggest cities—Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou—where the most drastic changes are taking place. |  |
|  |
|
 |
|