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Craig Arnold’s focus cuff with ridges, from re:vision bracelet series. Recycled camera lens focus ring. [link via CoolHunting]

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By Design: Starck Raving [NYT]

http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/starck-raving/

Allison Arieff proposes that Philippe Starck’s rant against designers positions him as a sustainability advocate.

In the future, promises Starck, “there will be no more designers.” And by extension, no more stuff! Now, that’s a surefire way to reduce one’s carbon footprint.

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Wentzel, Mark. XLounge, Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, leather and foam, 2007. Wentzel used the sleek and minimalist Eames Lounge to comment on American overconsumption. [Project 4 via DWR Blog]

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There is no reason why a piece of design that took a great deal of time and money to be made and cannot be manufactured industrially should not command a hefty price.

Amanda Levete, designer, on the once popular term designart, which curators and collectors used to describe “works that purportedly bridged the traditional division between the function of design and the personal expression of art.” [Is This Art? Or Just Really Expensive Furniture? | WSJ ]

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The glass wall on the river side of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. Photo: Philippe Ruault

Every architecture is an opportunity to create what I call the missing pieces of the puzzle… To find how you can create more poetry with the place where you are and the program you have. You research what will be the most emotional, the most perfect, the most natural.

— Pritzer Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel [The Contextualizer | New York Times ]

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Paola Antonelli + Benoit Mandelbrot

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/03/paola_antonelli_benoit_mandelb.php?p...

The curator and the mathematician discuss fractals, architecture, and the death of Euclid [SEED]

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Picture Imperfect

http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/123914

The British Fashion Council wants the U.K.’s periodical and advertising associations to consider a digital photo manipulation code, expressing concern that airbrushed images perpetuate an unhealthy and “unachievable aesthetic.” [WWD]

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Stauffacher, Stefan. Relax planter, 2008. Image credit: In California, Eclecticism Rules [NYT]

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