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 | | Off the Grid
By Mason Currey
A New Yorker’s minimalist landscape paintings draw on elemental forms of the built environment. | |
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 | | Model Citizens
By Cathryn Drake
A pair of Dutch artists aims to empower a Cairo community with a fantastically detailed miniature replica. | |
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 | | A Dose of Reality
By Mason Currey
A young photographer explores the view from the hospital bed. | |
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 | | Paper Tigers
By Mason Currey
A couple of accidental wallpaper designers try not to repeat themselves. | |
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 | | Trickle-down Architecture
By Mason Currey
New York’s tiny Gage/Clemenceau Architects put their fanciful competition ideas to work in built projects. | |
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 | | Product Placement
By Erich Nagler
A design duo produces two lines of goods, one specific to Finland and the other to South Korea. | |
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 | | Beyond the Wall
By Stephen Zacks
A young architect finds promise in the concrete barriers that divide Israel and Palestine. | |
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 | | Fantastic Duo
By David Sokol
Two young architects in a red camper take on Norway’s architectural ills. | |
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 | | Characters Welcome
By Erich Nagler
A fellowship invites photographers to document New York and its denizens. | |
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 | | Poster Boy
By Criswell Lappin
A young San Franciscan’s pitch-perfect designs originate from his love of music. | |
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 | | Fading Light
By Paul Makovsky
A Dutch photographer captures a vanishing way of life. | |
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 | | Craft Bombing
By Nancy Nowacek
Knitters practice urban beautification by taking their needles to the streets. | |
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 | | Between the Blinds
By Criswell Lappin
A Brooklyn-based Cuban-born photographer looks at the city through its screens. | |
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 | | A Piecemeal Pursuit
By Jade Chang
Rowena Dring renders large-scale landscapes one stitch at a time. | |
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 | | A Fellowship in Rome
By Kristi Cameron
Three Rome Prize winners explore their crafts in the city as an ensemble. | |
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 | | The Life Botanic
By Kristi Cameron
Chris Garofalo’s transition from graphic designer to ceramist was evolutionary. | |
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 | | Objets d’Art
By Kristi Cameron
Kevin Landers makes art from the everyday. | |
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 | | The Sight of Music
By Laurie Manfra
Andrew Prinz and Robert Pietrusko’s Brooklyn-based Simultaneous Workshop mixes music and design. | |
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 | | Contour Lighting
By Kristi Cameron
Brooklyn-based Lite Brite Neon Studio playfully subverts the
perception that neon is tacky. | |
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 | | Domestic Progress
By Andrew Yang
The competitors and winner of this year’s Electrolux Design Laboratory. | |
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 | | Practical Matters
By Kristi Cameron
The Design Academy Eindhoven’s annual graduation show in October is so popular that it spawned Eindhoven Design Week. | |
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 | | Up Against the Wall
By Karen E. Steen
Barcelona’s Maxalot gallery displays wallpaper created by graphic designers. | |
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 | | Poster Children
By Karen E. Steen
Montreal-based poster-design firm Seripop is coming soon to a wall near you. | |
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 | | Jest Pilots
By Ken Coupland
Feel good always with Feel Good Anyway. | |
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 | | 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. | |
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 | | 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. | |
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 | | 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. | |
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From the March 2010 Issue
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