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To modernize the collection, [R. Craig Miller, Curator of Design Arts & Director of Design Initiatives at the Indianapolis Museum of Art] has gone so far as to search the museum offices for mid-century furniture. The search, he said, “has turned up some very good pieces by Herman Miller and Knoll right in the building.”

But, he said, laughing, “it has made my colleagues afraid to go to lunch.”

A Curator Who Even Considers the Office Chair [NYT]

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When it’s put on a pedestal, as an idea, does it stop doing what design does best—enabling meaning through use? Isn’t design more powerful in the streets? Where does the idea end and contextual use begin? And who would suggest that ideas aren’t useful? Is design culture better-off with this new complexity? Absolutely.

Scott Klinker, Designer-in-Residence, Cranbrook Academy of Art. Beyond Fashion: Reviving Experimental Design [Core77]

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Artwork is necessary for engineering and science.

Paul W. K. Rothemund, Caltech scientist and Design and the Elastic Mind exhibitor.  Where Science and Design Collide, a Few Weird Sights to Behold [NYT]

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The most successful picture is a complete lie.

Todd Eberle, photographer. Picture, Picture on the Wall… [NYT]

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from Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre, Wilhelm Staehle

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Stolen Art on Display in a Search for Owners

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/arts/design/20muse.html

A museum in Jerusalem has opened an exhibition of art looted by the Nazis and returned after the war.

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Instant architect [via Coudal]

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Quiz: Donald Judd, or Cheap Furniture?

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Chen Hangfeng. Logomania Double Happiness. Traditional Chinese paper-cut. [link]

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Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA. [BusinessWeek]

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