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"Remembering my time at I.D....triggers a rich flood of memories that can bring me to tears of nostalgia. Because they would bring you to tears of boredom, I will spare you those, but after 55 years some obituarial record seems in order." Ralph Caplan on the early years of I.D magazine. [JL]
It rises more than 160 stories, cost an estimated $1.5 billion and bears the name of the president of Abu Dhabi (thanks for the loan, fella). Dubai opens the world’s tallest building. [JL]
Alan Moore, author/illustrator of graphic novels such as Watchmen and V is for Vandetta and most recently Dodgem Logic, a zine in the underground style, comes out with a new book: 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom. A review of the book here. And a recent interview with the artist here. [JSC]
The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is extending its program of exhibitions related to social change thanks to a $600,000 grant from The Rockefeller Foundation (an organization that also supports Change Observer)...
Design Observer's Job Board has new jobs in LA, Vienna, Memphis, Boston, SF, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, NYC and Chicago. Companies hiring include Southern California Institute of Architecture, The Village Voice, Peschkedesign, Miracle Branding, Macys, Shipwire, Houdini and The Life is Good Company...
Eames Demetrios, grandson of Charles Eames, announces that 10/10/10 will be Powers of 10 Day. [JL]
Forty years later: War Is Over! (If You Want It). Happy new year to all our readers from Design Observer. [MB]
It's New Year's Eve! Please allow Alie and Georgia to introduce you to the wonders of the Ham Daiquiri, the Bloody Bacon & Cheese, and the infamous McNuggetini. Cheers! [MB]
"What has made Mr. Levine endure — why, hands down, he’s the greatest modern-day caricaturist and one of the great artists of the last half-century — is his embrace of ambiguity." More on David Levine from Michael Kimmelman at the New York Times and James Kaplan at New York. Slide show here. [MB]
A Fast Company slideshow on the decade's 14 biggest design moments. [MB]
After Swiss citizens voted to ban the construction of new minarets, Archinect asked for proposals that maintained the spirit of Muslim iconography while preserving the look of the Alpine landscape. "Can you design a minaret as event rather than object?" Results are here...
"In the last 10 years, designers had to dramatically change the way they worked: What other industry got to weather the dot-com crash, a real estate bubble, and the death of print?" Alissa Walker in Good. [MB]
David Levine, creator of "somberly expressive, astringently probing and hardly ever flattering caricatures of intellectuals and athletes, politicians and potentates," most notably for the New York Review of Books, dies at 83. [MB]
For a class I'm teaching, Zak Klauck is designing 100 one-minute posters, one a day for 100 days, each based on a word or phrase supplied by 100 different people. He needs more words and phrases. Please help! [MB]
"The aughts were the decade when design finally transitioned from the fetish of a certain subset of the urban elite to broad acceptance within mass consumer society." Mark Lamster weighs in on the last ten years of architecture and design. [MB]
